At one point in time I would have said my Mossberg 835 with 3.5" 2 1/4 oz turkey loads. Then I bought an open sighted .416 Rigby barrel for my Encore. A 400 gr bullet handloaded to 2400 fps lit by over 100 grains of powder from a 7 lb gun is brutal. Even gripping it tight the first shot slammed the front of the trigger guard into my trigger finger, so naturally I shot it again. Yep, that hurt just as bad as the first shot. My finger hurt for a week, my shoulder for a couple of days. Off to gunbroker it went.
