Whats the hardest kicking gun you ever fired?

10 Ga. Shotgun from another Guy on the Range was defitely the worst. Made my 460 Weatherby with 500 grain Slugs seeming smooth. Sold the Weatherby long time ago and went soft using a 458 Ruger # 1 with using 500 grain Barnes.

Come to think of it, I still have a full box of Factory 460 Weatherby Shells remaining for sale or trade.
 
Mid-80's .458 ZKK602 Brno. Recoil-pad made from Soviet army truck tire I think.
Also when the .300 Ultra Mag was introduced I fired a Remington 700 from the bench....not pleasant!
 
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I own a .300wm, mine is walnut stocked. Win model 70. Kick ain't bad, my brother has a 300wm, tikka t3 (i think it's a lite) composite stock. It kicks like crazy, shooting same factory 180gr his tikka seems like it has twice the recoil.
 
The first center fire rifle i owned. A Savage 110 in 7 Rem mag, first shot drew blood ...on me. For some reason it was a mule, sighting in, third shot no one could hit the plywood the target was tacked too. I own Ultra Mags and have shot guns pushing twice the powder of the Savage, but have never shot a gun as savage as that 110.
 
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For me it was a 378 Weatherby.. About 20yrs ago hunting with my older brother and our friend we were out elk hunting in southern Alberta and it was around mid day. I was pretty eager to get something that day but they were a bit tired as we just got back from a 2 day hunt over the mountain and were back at camp restocking supplies for the next couple. They both took a bed in the camper and as I was raring to go still our buddy told me to take his gun and go sit in the farmers field down the road and see what pops out.. I took 3 shells with me and sat in the field for 2 hours and wouldn't you know it a 4 point white tail pops out on the far side of the field about 400yrds away. No way I'm going to stock him given the open field so I set up the sticks, give him my best guess on where its going to hit, booooom I'm almost on my back. Holy crap that hit hard but I still had enough composure to see the shot hit right between the bucks feet and it takes off running across the field. So I line up again pull the trigger, another miss.. I reload as quick as I can line up pull the trigger booooom.. buck spins around and drops.

Was sore for a week after that.... Never shot that gun again. After seeing the deer which was a semi okay shot, neither did he.
 
I guess the worst I've experienced was 3" Winchester rifled slugs out of my pump action Score 12 gauge. I fired off ten 2 3/4" 00 buck, five 2 3/4" slugs, and five 3" magnum slugs. After the magnums I'd had enough. My shoulder was as sore from shooting as I can recall it ever being and my cheek felt like I took some hard punches to the face.
 
Ruger #3 carbine loaded with really hot 45-70 cartridges. It doesn't sound like much but let me tell you it had twice the sting of my 458 win mag
 
Mountain rifle 30-06 from the bench kicks unusually hard.
I can fire 00 buck and slugs from my 870 or 590 without much complaint but that thing somehow kicks a lot. Maybe it's because I'm benched.
 
30.06 when I was about 6-7 years old.

First time I recall shooting a full sized rifle. My father had a rough way of teaching the important lessons.

Standing, full size rifle. Only instructions were "point it that way". Could barely hold it straight out. Didn't know to put it right against shoulder of course. Pulled the trigger and knocked me on my ass.

Shoulder hurting, upset, pulls me up on my feet. Says, "now you know not to screw around with guns kid, these things are not toys".

He then proceeded to give proper instructions that still lasts to this day in one form or another. The more experienced I get the more I realize his depth of knowledge and experience with firearms far exceeds the norm. Far exceeds..... Of course I saw all that as a child esp. when being drug around all over the place shooting, hanging out in old cats gun shops, watching guys with lathes doing the most amazing things to build guns (amazing to a 6 yr. old for sure), I did more reloading with him by 10 yrs old than most do in a lifetime, was casting my own bullets before I was 8, so on and so on ...

Anyway, we get home from that first 30.06 round, my shoulder was throbbing and bruised, Mom was freaking out at my Dad asking what the hell he did to me .... "well, now he knows this stuff isn't to be messed with".

Can't imagine teaching my little guy in that manner but I tell you, I LEARNED the lesson. 30.06 isn't that big a deal now of course but back then, I swear I was hit with a cannon.
 
An old marlin that had been smoothed to run 500 Alaskan, with a hand load of around 475g if I remember right? On vacation one year in BC, me and a Buddy met an old guy who let us shoot with him, we were in our mid 20's full of piss and vinigar, knew it all of course. Damn thing almost took our heads off!! He laughed and being an absolute hulk of a man, he fired his 600g with one hand from the hip, hardly moved his arm! Not only did we look like puss ya that day, regardless of what we had one thought, we learned how to hold a rifle properly hold a rifle that day. :)
 
Kept asking my Dad to buy me 3" magnums for my 20 gauge and he finally gave in. Guess I was in grade 5 then. Only took 1 shot to understand there was a significant difference between regular loads and magnums and why he'd been asking why I wanted them.

Well into adulthood I went to a range with my g/f's father to soot pistol for the first time. He pulls out a Desert Eagle in .44 magnum. Tells me that after I shoot that the .45 I'd just bought (but hadn't tried) won't make me flinch. He was right :)
 
I have a .50 cal Traditions Deerhunter muzzle loader, synthetic stock, weighs 5lb 15oz with a 320 grain Maxiball and 90 grains of 2F. It's tolerable for hunting if you only need one shot, but if I'm at the range I have to load it down with round balls if I want to shoot all day. I tried a box of 385 grain Hornady Great Plains bullets once but it was too much for my shoulder.
 
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