Whats the hardest kicking gun you ever fired?

A .450 Rigby that I used to own, guys shooting their little black guns at the range said the shockwave when I fired it shook their skulls (which made me enjoy it even more :d). But to be honest I found the recoil to be quite manageable.

I hope to have another .450 Rigby within the next year to replace it.
 
Strange, never found it bad with them. I own a Jungle Carbine and I find the recoil light. Kicks just a bit harder than my No1 Mk III, but not much. Now on the other hand a half hour ago I just fired my Cooey 840 single shot break barrel in .12 Ga. Those four 3 inch mag BB rounds had a stiff kick to them. It broke the darned plastic forestock spacer. Now I gotta find the metal ones somewhere. Plus a bead front sight for it. Lost that too firing the first round. LOL
 
Hardest kicking rifle for me was a .505 Gibbs a buddy owns. Ginormous recoil. I've fired .458's, and most of the other really punishing African game rounds, but his Gibbs has absurd levels of recoil.
 
jmichelin84 said:
Barrett 50 Cal, thank God for the brake and 6 inches of foam lol, still bruised
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Really? I have found the Barrett's I have fired to be quite manageable compared to other guns.

If you really want to take a wild ride, shoot a bolt action .50BMG without the muzzle brake... I guarantee you will only ever do it once...
 
I love shooting clays with my buddies SP10. I know it's not a .505, but man it makes be laugh. Something about recoil with a moving target makes me giggle......... in a precision rifle it scares me!!!
 
jmichelin84 said:
Barrett 50 Cal, thank God for the brake and 6 inches of foam lol, still bruised
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I didn't find that it kicked all that hard. Do you mean the M82A1?

Hardest kick I ever felt was from an FN-FAL, after someone had loaded a grenade cartridge into the mag on me as a "joke"

I don't suggest trying it
 
I touched off a 3 inch 12ga pump gun one time that whipped my head so hard I seriously thought it broke my neck for a brief instant. It was so violent my buddy beside me asked if I was OK.
Next in line was HOT (but safe) loads in my Marlin 45/70. 425gr cast bullets. Honestly made my nose bleed every time and gave me a fat lip pushing my thumb knuckle into my lip. I couldn't believe that the stock didn't just break.
 
sahara said:
I touched off a 3 inch 12ga pump gun one time that whipped my head so hard I seriously thought it broke my neck for a brief instant. It was so violent my buddy beside me asked if I was OK.
Next in line was HOT (but safe) loads in my Marlin 45/70. 425gr cast bullets. Honestly made my nose bleed every time and gave me a fat lip pushing my thumb knuckle into my lip. I couldn't believe that the stock didn't just break.
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and you kept doing it?
 
Rossi Coach gun with 3" magnums, very light gun with a very narrow buttstock and a tee shirt. It kicked more than my .375 H&H
 
I've owned a 375 H&H that I preferred shooting over the 3.5" 2 1/4 oz turkey loads that I used for my first few hunting seasons. They are the only shell that I've ever seen cycle a pump action, ejecting themselves on to the ground. They were awful, terrible percussion, muzzle blast and rearward energy. I got smart and started shooting 3" turkey loads a few years back and haven't noticed a difference on game.

Patrick
 
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