6-1/2 lb short barrel Mauser in a fibreglass stock, chambered in 458 Win - from the bench, it hurt so bad that I thought I did something wrong. Yep, I shot it a second time and it hurt even worse.

An 870 twelve gauge with the short barrel and folding wire stock, darned thing brought tears to my eyes, still does just thinking about it.

Savage 99 in 308, surprising how often it has come up in this thread. I used one for a lot of years as my only big-game rifle and I developed a flinch that took a long time to get over.

I now shoot 223's and my big-game rifle is 243.

drover

223 Rem, my favorite cartridge - you can't argue with truckloads of dead PD's and gophers.

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