- Location
- Thunder Bay ON Canada
I was reading the thread over in sporting arms about the hardest recoiling gun you've ever shot. I instantly thought of my buddy Corey.
My buddy cut his ten gauge H&R down to the legal minimum 19 inches, it weighs practically nothing. 3 1/2 inch magnums loaded with steel or slugs are all they seem to sell here. He likes to rationalize that when he learns to tolerate the recoil from it, he'll be cured forever. I've joked that he'll develop nerve damage, and need surgery somday. He's 21 or 22 and seems to go his own way on almost everything, but I've started to wonder, if it's such a joke after all.
Am I right, or is he?
I suspect nerve damage because I'm a big fat guy (6'3", 330 lbs or so), but am also muscular and lift weights fairly regular, and each time after shooting his shotgun 3 or more times, I get a peculiar buzzing in my arm radiating down to my right hand.
When asked, he avoids the question mostly, but once confided that he once lost the ability to shift gears on his (standard tranny) car after shooting four 3 1/2" slugs through it and had to drive for ten miles or so on the highway in second gear.
He's a much smaller man, but I've noticed before he seems to have a fairly substantial pain tolerance, and I wonder if he isn't just powering through it to his long term detriment. I don't mean to get into his business, but he's a good guy and I don't want to see him hurt himself in a permanent way.
My buddy cut his ten gauge H&R down to the legal minimum 19 inches, it weighs practically nothing. 3 1/2 inch magnums loaded with steel or slugs are all they seem to sell here. He likes to rationalize that when he learns to tolerate the recoil from it, he'll be cured forever. I've joked that he'll develop nerve damage, and need surgery somday. He's 21 or 22 and seems to go his own way on almost everything, but I've started to wonder, if it's such a joke after all.
Am I right, or is he?
I suspect nerve damage because I'm a big fat guy (6'3", 330 lbs or so), but am also muscular and lift weights fairly regular, and each time after shooting his shotgun 3 or more times, I get a peculiar buzzing in my arm radiating down to my right hand.
When asked, he avoids the question mostly, but once confided that he once lost the ability to shift gears on his (standard tranny) car after shooting four 3 1/2" slugs through it and had to drive for ten miles or so on the highway in second gear.
He's a much smaller man, but I've noticed before he seems to have a fairly substantial pain tolerance, and I wonder if he isn't just powering through it to his long term detriment. I don't mean to get into his business, but he's a good guy and I don't want to see him hurt himself in a permanent way.
