Whats the hardest kicking gun you ever fired?

Just under 5lb TC in 45/70 with a 405 grn bullet 15" barrel OAL is a hair over 26". Took a while to learn how to control the recoil of that round....that and a rifle fore-end not a pistol helped.
 
Years ago a freind of mine ran a small gun shop in Ontario in North Gower. He took an old 10ga single shot goose gun in on a trade and promptly tried to make a bush deer blaster out of it.
He took the two 12"x1" dia steel rods out of the stock and cut the barrel to 19"
I got to fire a 3 1/2" magnum out of it when he was done modifying it....never again....it ROCKED me. :owned:
 
a 3" magnum slug from a 12 guage with an 18" barrel and no butt pad from the bench... three times in a row. i was verifying the newly installed homemade front post. it hurt me.
 
my buddy had a over/under and it had a single trigger, there was something wrong with it. anyway, we were duck hunting and i had 2 three inch magnums in the chambers. when i pulled the trigger, both shells fired at the same time. needless to say my shoulder was quite unhappy for a few days.
 
This has been an interesting and fun thread. Noticed another responder mention his Sharps. My 45-100 with a very healthy load of 4895 and 405 grainers is a real attention getter. My buddy was watching me shoot it. I offered him the opportunity. His response was "I don't intentionally hit myself with sledgehammers and I ain't shooting your damned gun". 'nuff said.

Other nasty little rifle was a model 94 30-30 with a side mount. The awkward position made it a real unpleasant little bugger.
 
Not the biggest but the worst to shoot for me was a Ruger M77 Mark II with the canoe paddle stock in 7mm Rem Mag. Three rounds from it on the bench and I had horizontal blood blisters that lined up with the recoil pad. Sold it away and replaced with a R700 in 300 Weatherby that was a pleasure to shoot.
 
I built a lightweight (sub 5#) 6.5 x284 0n a 600 action. With the original wooden 600 stock it would punch the daylights out of you. Required physio!
The other candidate was a 375 Weatherby the finished just below 7# with the scope. With a muzzle brake it was O.K. A shot fired without the break moved me off the bench.
Sold that rifle because I hated the Brake.
 
My buddy bought a Model 70 Winchester, Push Feed, Synthetic Stainless in .300 Win Mag. Vicious recoil. Too much for this guy and I actually own and shoot bigger calibers than that!
 
I was out at Genessee on a weekday in the winter, oh, about a year and a half ago. I was alone on the entire range, at the far right end of the 100 punching paper with a .223.

Guy came roaring into the yard in an old farm pickup, with what I supposed to be his teenage daughter in the passenger seat. Jumped out of the truck with a rifle and a big grin on his face and started slinging lead, making a real big boom.

Being somewhat curious by nature, I wandered over introduced my self and asked "what you got there?"

.416 Rigby, got it for Christmas, first time I've got to shoot it HERE TRY IT.

me - uhh, geeze, thanks mister, but I really don't think

NO YOU GOTTA TRY IT it's great HERE!

me - ooooooooohhhhkayyyy.

Now, all bundled up for winter I might look somewhat substantial if you don't see my pencil neck...I'm 6' tall but 170lbs of skinny legs and arms and a bit of a middle age spread. Also, though I'm in my 40's, at the time I'd only been shooting a year or so, rifles almost exclusively off the bench. So, standing, with slight aprehension but a good damned firm grip, I looked over the iron sights and pointed aproximately in the middle of the paper target I had set up - one of those big ones what are they, 24x30" or so?

BOOOOM but I didn't really hear it I was too busy trying to hang onto the rifle that I'd just punched myself in the nose with.

Did manage to hit paper and remember to thank the kind b*stard :)
 
Purdey double rifle in 8 gauge. I was told to only shoot it when I was standing up, and never shoot it from the bench. The first time I fired it, it pushed me back 4 steps. It was/is a real cannon.
 
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