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I've fired 338 mags, 8mm Rem mag, 375 mags, 458 mags and 458 Lott. This little damn thing is the worst kicking gun I ever shot. The 8mm rem mag was nearly as bad. My uncles rem 700 8mm mag with it's Monte Carlo stock damn near broke my cheek bone. He put that in a classic stock and it ain't so bad.

Model 600 350 mag. Probably because it fits me very badly.

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Light mossberg 500 slug gun. Kicked so hard it actually unloaded itself. I went to pump it and the action was already open. My eyes teared up and my nose was running. That thing was miserable and it took several shots to dial in.

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Rifle....Remington 760 pump, 30-06 with 180 grain bullets. It had a steel buttplate, and I was a very skinny 15 year old kid.

Shotgun....friend bought a new turkey gun, a NEF single shot that wouldn't have weighed 5 pounds, in a 3 1/2 inch 12 guage. I shot it one time. That was one time too many.

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Originally Posted by mjbgalt
Light mossberg 500 slug gun. Kicked so hard it actually unloaded itself. I went to pump it and the action was already open. My eyes teared up and my nose was running. That thing was miserable and it took several shots to dial in.



My Winchester 1300 pump using 3 inch turkey loads will do that every time. All you have to do is to just push it forward.

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Without a doubt, a Mosin M44 carbine. Horrible!


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Yup, those M600s in 350 RM are brutal; lightweight, poorly designed stocks will do it every time.

My worst was one of THE worst: a .577 Nyati. It was on a modified Win M70 weighing only 10 pounds. Without the muzzle brake, it has double the recoil of a .458 Win. Yes, double. Even with the brake screwed on, it exceeds the 458 by a goodly amount. The gunsmith sighting it in was allowing others to shoot it (no surprise!) but limited us to two shots each because the cartridges cost $20 each.


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2oz(875gr) Turkey load thru a alloy receiver shotgun.

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Never fired something like a 458 Lott, but out of all the guns I've ever shot and some of them kicked worse then what they should've, to this day nothing kicks worse than a straight lined heavy loaded 12 gauge. Many of the single shots would fall in that category and for whatever reason the Mossberg's seem to kick like a mule.


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Originally Posted by mjbgalt
Light mossberg 500 slug gun. Kicked so hard it actually unloaded itself. I went to pump it and the action was already open. My eyes teared up and my nose was running. That thing was miserable and it took several shots to dial in.


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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.


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My grandfather's single shot Boito 12 gauge with 3" magnums. Grandpa always said " it draws meat on both ends".


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Same experience here with my slug gun....3" Partition slugs in my 11-87 are pretty sporty from the bench. Not fun to dial in. I decided that 2 3/4" were just fine.

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A Winchester M 70 SS .338 Win mag using 275 gr Swift bullets.


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Not sure...could be my Ithaca 12 ga. Slug gun...or Encore with 24" turkey barrel and 3" turkey loads...or Guide Gun with hot-rodded 400 gr Speers...or .500 S&W with full house 400 grainers. None of the above are especially pleasant to shoot much.


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Probably not the hardest kicking firearm that i ever fired, but I remember how much I dreaded tripping the trigger on my H&R single shot 20 Ga. I was 8 years old at the time. I'm sure it didn't fit me correctly. A few years later, I graduated to a Winchester 1400 in 12 ga. Much less felt recoil that that single shot!

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For me, a .460 Weatherby. No joy!!!!


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Ithaca featherweight with heavy pheasant loads.

Thought I'd broken my nose.

Mossberg 500 Magnum with 3 1/2" coyote loads.

Kills on one end, and cripples on the other.


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Originally Posted by JamesJr
Shotgun....friend bought a new turkey gun, a NEF single shot that wouldn't have weighed 5 pounds, in a 3 1/2 inch 12 guage. I shot it one time. That was one time too many.


For me it's essentially the same thing as above, an H&R Topper in 3.5" 12ga w/English stock. Shot it into a test bbl w/2.25oz 3.5" Turkey loads and my hand went numb for a few seconds.

I've shot both the .378Wby and .416 Wby MKV's in Classic Mark stocks without brakes and they're both brutal. I shot the 378 twice and the 416 twice.

The worst recoiling "session" I ever had was sighting in a 340Wby MKV Fibermark in .340Wby w/250gn factory ammo sans brake. Got it dead on @ 200 and shot a few groups @ 300 to confirm drop as well. 'Bout a box and a half later I had a raging headache. Did this while I worked @ a gun shop in college, I'd sold the rifle to a very good customer going on a Musk Ox hunt and both of us knew he wouldn't get it sighted in properly so the sight in was a condition of the purchase. The guy had some great life experiences and was a masterful story-teller so the abuse was certainly worth it. He had some great stories about growing up only having "scrip" to spend.

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I have 2 308 win.chambered rifles one is a savage bolt and the other is a savage 99.
No matter how you load them they just kick like a mule.

I do know that they don't fit me and one day will get around to it,but even when loading down to 300 savage loads they just are not fun to shoot.
I have had several try them and they say they kick more than their rifles in same caliber.
They make the 30-378 seem enjoyable.

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7mm Rem mag
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