Joking aside, I put 9 rounds through a 460 Weatherby sighting it in for a friend. I will not do that again, wasn't no lead sleds back then. Took me 45 minutes and my shoulder was trembling for 2 days.

Joking aside, I put 9 rounds through a 460 Weatherby sighting it in for a friend. I will not do that again, wasn't no lead sleds back then. Took me 45 minutes and my shoulder was trembling for 2 days.

The story about the 155mm is true, knocked me on my arse about 10ft back.

Had a fireman bud pick up a NEF 12 ga. for me at his BIL's pawn shop. He took it to his dad's and turned it down to 18 1/2". You know you did something when you drop the hammer on that little light weight 12.

No talk of bad arse pistolas or is that a completely different animal?

Browning BPS 12 ga w/ 3.5" magnum goose load. I was laying flat on my back in a muddy rice field amonst a white rag spread when a flock of snows came directly overhead. I shot from flat on my back straight up. My shoulder was solid on the ground and couldn't "give" with the recoil. I thought I broke my shoulder....

Far, far worse than my .375 H&H Mag.

Most common hard kickers will be light weight guns in a powerful chambering or have a stock that doesn't fit the shooter. Combination of both is brutal. I have some big guns and have shot others but the Tikka light hunter in 270WSM was the most painful to me until it got a good recoil pad. Knocked my hat off my head almost every time I shot it.

I like the stories about guns that kill at both ends...hard kicking pistols ....i have shot short barrel 44mags with stiff loads and a Dan Wesson 445 Supermag but the most uncomfortable pistol i ever shot was one of those Davis derringers in 22 mag...there's just nothing to hold on too and jump all around when firing it...could hit squat with it either....

Shot my second deer with dads rem 700 mountain rifle chambered in 280 rem when I was 11. Always loved that gun and probably always will... but its got a little rumble, especialy chunking hot 150 grainers.

matt

10 gauge single shot with 3 1/2" magnum shell.

870 with 3 1/2" 00 buckshot, and my 700 in 300 win mag, both are synthetic and super light

A Yldiz O/U with a 2 3/4" foster slug. Surprised the hell out of me and gave me a nice green bruise under my right eye. That gun is way too light for that purpose.

k98 in 8mm Mauser. I bought the thing for about $150 bucks. It had the stock replaced with some cheap plastic job.

That rifle kicked harder then anything Ive ever shot then and since. At the time I had a Ruger in 338mag. That Mauser made that rifle feel like a 30-30.

Damn that Mauser kicked. It would leave a nasty bruise that would stay for 5days. The kind that get all yellow as it heals.

S&W 500 for handguns

Shotgun with 3 1/2 buck

Rifle was probably my dads lightweight.270 , haven't really shot any big big bores

Mine is the Browning BPS I just bought last week shootin 3" #4 steel shot. Not enough to keep me from shooting it but I think I'll get something else for my wife to shoot when she duck hunts with me which is what I bought it for.

A guy pulled out one of those 500's at a range. He was shooting at a humvee window set down range. Another guy pulls out a round with a 700grain bullet. Flat point, plain lead. The round looked like a lipstick tube. And as big.

That 700 grain kicked half of what the other rounds did.

Neither the 700grain nor whatever the other round was would go through bullet proof glass at 25yards.

Weatherby 460 off a bench at a shooting fair down south of Alvin that was put on by a California outfit, spondered by the Houston area dealers and us gun Reps that was open to the public. Made my 71/4 lb factory stocked McMillan 375H&H SAKO carbine feel like almost like a 243. My old friend Dud Grounds the Weatherby rep in those days fell down he was laughing so hard.
Ron

for rifle - 300wsm in browning abolt. had to put a brake on it real quick.

pistol - 454 casull. shot it 4 times and will never touch that pistol again. i don't remember the model but it was a revolver and it was not heavy at all. no brake on it either.

My shoulder hurts thinking about that one.

30-378

pretty sure thats what thats what the guy said it was... had to sight it in for a client...figured out why he didnt want to...then he went deer huntin with it ha

How about a 14 inch Contender in a full length 458 Win Mag, shot that one at a match in Notree's.

You guys should try the 2 bore.
Kinda expensive tough. I think it's like $80 per round.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXoa5zNn0TU

Most recent sore shoulder was from a steel butt plate on a standard issue Mosin.
Prior to that it was a 30-06 sporter that had a pretty good push.

As for handguns, it would have to be the Ruger 44Mag Super Redhawk silhouette pistol I had for a while.
I sprained my wrists pretty bad racing off-road motorcycles.
After that, it was tough for me to shoot it like I wanted to shoot it and I sold it....kinda wish I had that one back...

416 rig. with a 4x scope. Wasn't much of a kick more of a push

Ummm..I believe you win.

I've shot rifles with a lot more muzzle energy, but the worst for me was a .450 Marlin lever action. Must have been because the gun was super light and had no butt pad or brake.