How much recoil an individual shooter can tolerate is a personal matter, what one shooter finds acceptable the next may find horrific. One shooter might be able to shoot a 10 round string, while the next begins to loose concentration after 3. A shooter who has fired a powerful rifle to the extent that he is pretty good with it, can probably tolerate more recoil than someone who has only been exposed to small bores. Clearly the 9.3X62 is a powerful cartridge, and powerful cartridges tend to cause rifles to jump around some. If you buy a light rifle in a powerful chambering, you should expect to get pounded a bit. Having said that, given a cartridge of the power of a 9.3X62, if you are healthy enough to play contact sports, the recoil should not be a problem even in a light rifle. The blast from a short barrel could be another matter. The key here is not to fire long strings in a single sitting. If you continue to shoot until the gun hurts you, you've done yourself no favor. Fire 3-5 rounds then take a break. Walk down and mark your target; if you shoot over a chronograph, enter the velocity in your data book, and don't shoot again until you are ready. What do you do if you find the recoil too much for you, and you've just dumped nearly $2K into the rifle? The solution is to load some intermediate loads. Load some rounds to 2000 fps, then work up in 100 fps increments as your comfort level allows.
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