If the gun doesn't fit you, or if the stock isn't shaped for the recoil generated by the cartridge/caliber involved, it will be unpleasant. Recoil bothers everybody, but smaller caliber rounds and limiting shots taken with larger ones help reduce it. A plastic stocked 7mm STW, .375 H&H model 70 and shooting .416 Rigby without a PAST pad hurt me. (I found out long ago I flinch for noise, so I double protect.)
Last edited by agazain; 12/11/15.
