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Blew the guts out of a suppressor while shooting a .300 Win mag. Figure about 8 ounces of stainless went down range, some all of 100 yards. I took 7 stitches to my right eyebrow. It was later determined by the manufacturer to be a defective can. However, they didn't offer to pay my deductible.

Good times.....

Gettin' shot in the ass by ya cousin with a Crosman 760 Powermaster count?

He always was a mean lil' bastard. Last I heard he was in jail.

Original 95 Winchester in .405, with that evil "Crescent Butt plate".

My bud's got one that he restocked with a steel "Shotgun Plate"
....a reasonably pleasant powerhouse to shoot.....though one does feel that he's accomplished something, on laying it down.

GTC

Smart guys. My wife, God Bless her, wanted to get me something good for Christmas back in my duck hunting days, so she went to Acadamy and asked for the "best" duck hunting shells. All she knew was 12ga. They sold her a case of 3.5" BB's. I had a Browning BPS that would shoot them, and they wouldn't take them back, so I shot them. It scarred me so bad I gave the gun away, just to make sure I wouldn't shoot any more. I don't even want to think about the one, magnum load of 00 buck I shot.

Strangely, the worst I've ever been beat up was shooting a round of trap with a pump .410. It fit my buddy just fine, but it beat my cheek to hamburger. Can't figure out why, he's 5'8" and a buck sixty, I'm 6'6" and 300+.

I have benched as big as a .375 H&H in a Ruger #1 - which bucked and twisted a lot but didn't really hurt.

My first time to shoot a .454 Casull was a borrowed Super Redhawk. I fired 6 shots over the chrono, and the 300 grain slugs were making over 1600 fps. I bought a set of rubber lined PAST gloves after that point. I'd like to get a Freedom Arms in either .475 or .500 Wyoming Express but don't fancy a case of carpal tunnel.

Saw one guy at the range years ago who had a 12" Contender in .45-70. He'd hand made a grip for it and was bragging it wasn't bad to shoot. He got no takers to shoot it, and I noticed he was trying to sell it at the next gun show a week or two later.

Can't really say I've shot one that made me say ouch, but the worst handling rifle I ever shot was a bear bones pre 64 win. model 70 in .458 win mag. The gun weighed 8 lbs., at the most. I benched it for a guy to get the irons on at 50 yds. Fired it 16 times, and finally got the irons on. However it took a 1/2 bottle of canadian mist to get rid of the dee-doop-dee-doops....after the range session

I might add, that the only time I was ever scope bit, was with my sons H&R Ultra Hunter. Had it on my bench, crawled the stock, fired, scope hit glasses on bridge of nose...blood everywhere!



maddog

When I was about 12 or so I got an old single shot 20 ga. Stevens IIRC, that would just hammer me. I spent the next few years scared to give a 12 ga. a try -- 20 was enough. That sucker must of been choked hard or something because when I finally started shooting some 12s, I don't think that I've found one yet that kicked like that 20 did.

It sat in my gun case after that for 10 or 15 years until a bud asked me if I knew of anybody that had a 20 ga that they would make a good deal on. I guess he had this idea that he was gonna start bringing his grouchy wife along duck and pheasant hunting with us sometimes and wanted to break her in with a 20 ga. so she wouldn't get sore and want to stay home -- I had just the deal for him. Ha ha ha ha ha she never did come out with us.

A friend bought a Ruger #1 in 416 Remington magnum. He had a box of factory ammo and we both were just itching to shoot that beautiful rifle. Wow, a few shots scratched that itch. That rifle spent s lot of time in his close before he sold it.

custum 378 wtyb is the worst I've ever shot.

I have a couple of 10 ga, and they are ok, even the single shot thats super light. I have all the sizes of 12 and they are ok

I've shot 375, 416s, 458s of both flavors and the 460 wtby and my 50 bmg... no big deal.

I shoot a 54 MZ with a 535 gn(I think its that, its 535 or larger) conical in front of 100 gns of real black.. it gets your attention, but then the first thing I ever did to it was take off the steel hook buttplate and put on a recoil pad.. no need in even trying that steel pad, the hooked one in my 45 will nab you if you shoot it in a particular position....

That 378 though....(and I have a 338-378 and have shot a30-378 doing load work and have a couple of various 300s....) I never want to shoot again at all. Ever... It was horrible. SO FAST. I handed it back to the owner after #1 and said nope. He had just got it. First shot broke his shooting glasses in half since he had a high thumb position and his thumb smacked the glasses...

I have not shot any of the big NE rounds... I'd love to though... just to see. My thoughts are I can handle a big shove, I cannot handle a big fast SNAP.

And I've never fired a 378 but had a 460 for about a dozen years. I really had fun shooting that gun, except for the 600 grain Barnes I had for it. Those hurt. The thing I've heard about the 378 vs the 460, is the 378 comes back quicker. Having had a Lazz Warbird, I can understand the concept. That Warbird deserved about as much respect as the 460 or it could leave a mark. Good form, good follow though, and remembering what you're shooting accounts for a lot of whether the rifle gets the better of the shooter or not, I believe.

I'm pretty recoil tolerant but I met my maker with a Heym Bolt action in 500 Jeffrey. Ouch. jorge

If we're talking getting your bell rung, I had my .450 #2 NE double on me, twice! I developed a flinch and stopped shooting for almost a year. Got back into it with the help of several hundred rounds of .22lr.

Remington XP100R PISTOL in 350 Rem. Mag. w/14" bbl
62 gr. 4064, with a 180gr. Speer

Throws enough barrel flash to gut the deer by
before it dies out

Same here, except I was patterning with turkey loads. Hoping a gobbler never showed, tell ya...

Thanks a LOT bud.... now I need two asprin just from READING about that incident! Owie...

My buddy asked me to sight in his 870 slug gun for him since I was shooting anyway.I shot a box of 5 of his 3"slugs.
The same shells in my auto with the mercury recoil suppresor were not bad at all,but the short barreled,plastic butt plated 870 was a killer.
As bad or worse was a T/C hawken with brass crescent butt and 460gr maxi hunter conicals.As least the muzzleloader shots were a few minutes apart.

I'm pretty tolerant of rifle recoil, though most of my shooting has been with things 0.308 and smaller.

A Freedom Arms 454 Casull was handed quickly back to its' owner after one shot. I have RA in my hands and wrists that tolerate a full bore 44 mag load fine. That 454 crossed some sort of line.

I don't do 3.5" 12 ga. My momma never raised no foo.....

Got scope bit from a 788 carbine in .308 shooting Hornady Customs 165 load. Was shooting (awkwardly)from an improvised rest and things went very wrong

Cumulative damage:

Lyman Trade Rifle 50 cal. shooting sabotted 240 and 300 gr. XTP's, as well as some of the 385gr Great Plains bullets. A few dozen of those from a bench and I had a horribly sore check for a week or so.

Shooting a sporting clays event to benefit BSA with an 870 pump. Shells provided were AA Super Handicaps and I shot over 200 that day.
I was shooting way over my head that day on what was an extremely difficult coarse. One station had 3 different true pairs that would break at your feet if you did not get them in the air. I was the only person out of a couple hundred (including many pro's) that broke all six birds on that station. Several other stations had shots that were all but impossible with a pump gun and I paid a price. Many of my shots were taken with the shotgun nowhere near my shoulder. I think a lot of my second shots were taken with the butt over my breast.

I was shooting on a company sponsored team that day and won some tremendous bragging rights, though the pain I endured is much fresher in my memory. I spent the next three days flat on my back barely able to breathe. It seems those repeated shots with the butt plate against my ribs really did some damage.

The first day I could really walk after that I went and bought a Beretta sporting clays gun in the semi-auto config.

Oh I got scope bit, but it didn't bother me any... 338 win mag and 210 tsx... same awkward position.... and the next morning (it cut and bled even with a rubber ring on the eyepiece of the zeiss..) I took 3 shots at a doe, 2 at her head at long range and then moved to the lungs to kill her.. first 2 were awkward and took flesh off my finger from the bolt knob... literally a chunk of bloody flesh but no big deal there either.

But back to this 378... nope, no way no how..

Has anyone ever fired an M1 with a grenade launcher?

I have heard the recoil from one of those is pretty bad.