Video POV firing German K98 Mauser
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Brrrr, my shoulder got bruised just watching 
They're all beefy chamberings. Every time I pull the trigger on my .303 Br Enfields I shake my head...I can't get over that we used to shoot at each other with these 'tools' Overkill to the extreme!?Funny i could shoot that all day. Recoil never bothered me. Could be how i was introduced to firearms as a kid. When i was 7 or 8 my father bought me a used single shot 12 gauge break action. But it turned out to be too long. I couldent hold it up. So he cut the barrel off it... its now 19 inches long amd cyl bore. Kicks like a horse. I used to fire it all the time. Slugs, buckshot, birdshot... no recoil pad either just the plastic buttplate. It became habit to just shoulder it properly amd i got used to it.
Years and years ago, a buddy and I used to make a game of "mad minute" drills. Shooting off-hand, standing, put as many shots in an 8" target at 50 yards as you could in under a minute.
The first time I did it, I couldn't even lift a coffee cup the next day. Beat the crap out of me. The second time, I was stiff and sore the next day, but it was livable. After that, it got better.
I don't think it was so much that I was "getting used to it" (ie: killing all the nerve endings in my shoulder), as it was that I was getting a lot better with stance and how I was shouldering the rifle. Full powered rifles are very unforgiving if you shoulder them wrong. By practising shooting at speed, getting the butt in the right place in my shoulder pocket, and having a good stance, became second nature - pretty much unconscious.
Might be a bit of an expensive way to go about giving yourself the training now, given the price of .303 and some of the other chamberings. But you can teach yourself the same lesson with a lightweight (under 6 lb) repeating 12 gauge and a case of target loads. You either learn fast or suffer.
I recently took my newly acquired VZ-24, and the recoil didn't hit my shoulder hard. What actually bothered me was my middle finger behind the trigger guard being hit hard after pulling the trigger.
When I first shot it, my shooting buddy in the range was startled as I didn't warn them that I was about to shoot the mauser.
I'm amazed at how fast he acquires the target. Takes me a while to acquire the target with the low profile iron sights with these mausers.
Thanks for sharing the vid.
When I first shot it, my shooting buddy in the range was startled as I didn't warn them that I was about to shoot the mauser.
I'm amazed at how fast he acquires the target. Takes me a while to acquire the target with the low profile iron sights with these mausers.
Thanks for sharing the vid.
Doing shotgun drills at home would help with shouldering. Stand there and shoulder and aim your rifle over and over at something in the room till it becomes natural for the rifle butt to fall in the right place. Do it till your arms are tired then repeat the next day. That's not taking any ammunition as you are just aiming it. I do that with my shotguns. It improves aiming speed considerably.
Actually, for those who even make reference to the 'shoulder' you're doing it wrong. These rifles weren't shouldered like a shotgun, the butt is placed directly on the pectoral muscle under the collar bone. Held properly, even the mighty .303Br can be shot all day (you will know you've been doing so the next but...) without bruising. My initial comment was a bit of tongue in cheek that the OP was taking the Mauser on like a boss.
