Not the hardest kicking gun I ever shot but one that kicked all out of proportion to what it should have was a Remington 700 ADL wood stock in .270. It just hurt. It didn't wallop you, it just was painful to shoot.
Boy, does that bring back some memories. I bought a brand new Remington Model 700, ADL in .270, in probably 1973 or 1974. It was a beautiful gun and I was proud as hell to own it, being only in my early 20s. That SOB was punishing to shoot. Like JB said probably not the hardest kicking gun I ever shot, but it was just miserable. It turned my shoulder black and blue more than once. I ended up selling it. I could never figure out what made it so. Shot lots of .270s in a lot of makes and models, but nothing was as miserable as that 700 ADL.
