New on AllOutdoor: Managing Recoil

4 Responses to New on AllOutdoor: Managing Recoil

1. j.r. guerra in s. tx. says:

   October 11, 2013 at 6:54 am

   In the recent past, there were also interior butt stocks inserts using mercury and other materials that slowed down rearward momentum. I have an old PAST recoil pad that was strapped on shooting shoulder, and the same material installed on one of my deer rifles.
2. Y. says:

   October 11, 2013 at 9:35 am

   Minor pedantic quibble- unless one has been born in sixteen hundreds like say, the protagonist of ‘New Amsterdam’, one should not refer to things that happened sixty years ago as ‘recent events’.

   FG-42 second model has two out of three features mentioned – the recoil spring in buttstock. Not sure if it was the first gun that used it, but probably not.

   I mean, putting a mechanical spring into a stock is pretty elementary.
3. Scott says:

   October 20, 2013 at 10:12 pm

   I’m afraid to even ask how much I’d need to part with to own an FG42, but that is a rather nice-looking rifle!
4. Mehul Kamdar says:

   October 21, 2013 at 12:34 am

   I am not a fan of heavy recoiling hunting rifles, and my three favorite rifles are all bolt actions in 8mm Mauser, 30-06 and 6.5 Mannlicher. I have shot heavier rifles with the 470 Nitro Express being the biggest. What I do is to shoot standing up (not off a rest) and facing forward at the target, holding the rifle firmly but not pulling it into my shoulder and shooting with my knees slightly bent. If you let the barrels move up with recoil, they will dissipate some of the force that would otherwise go into your shoulder. The old British rifles with their short fore ends and shotgun style butts and grips do that somewhat better than American designed stocks do. Some argue that a rifle that recoils upward is not a good idea on dangerous game because you need to bring it back down on target – a daunting issue if you’re being charged by a lion or something similarly dangerous, but I have never shot a dangerous animal, and I am unlikely to ever do this. Again, I don’t enjoy shooting heavy recoiling rifles, but this is how I soften the blow on my shoulder when I do borrow one from a friend and shoot it at the range.

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