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8s,
I have a 340 Roy, have used it for maybe 5 years...no problem with it...a really nice hunting rifle.
If you are worried and afraid of this "man's rifle", let me know and I will shoot it for you.
However, if you hold it properly you will find it to be a good shooter.
Have fun.
Have Gun, Will Travel. The more dust on the trail, the thicker the soup.
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"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."
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GeoW, The "Unwoke" ...Let's go Brandon!
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Amazing the number of shooters who are defeated with out trying!!!
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Just shoot the thing and get your nerves over it. Just remember to apply extra super polygrip to your teeth before hand... weather you wear dentures or not, you wouldn't want to swallow any.
Whatever a 7x57 can do a 270 can do better.
True fair chase is you in the woods buttnaked with nothing but your finger nails and teeth.
If you'e fixin' to put a hole in something, make it a hole to remember.
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Snake, You should give that one a dinosaur name. 
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Fellas, I hope that some of my more humorous posts were taken in the jest I intended. I fully expect this ULA to have some recoil, but I'm not afraid of it.
SKane, I'm right there with you. How about the mighty .340 Snakeasaurus?
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How about the mighty .340 Snakeasaurus? Perfection. Best book a bear hunt.
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Got a spare reel of cable I can toss in the truck?
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8SNAKE, I'm in SW Mo myself, south of Springfield. I would gladly volunteer to...witness you shooting it.  I wouldn't be worried so much about the shoulder or eyebrow. After all, bruises fade and cuts heal. I'd be a little concerned about a detached retina. The likelihood is quite low but I do have a friend who had it happen. PS I'll pay you 5 bucks to watch you shoot a 5 shot group from prone. 
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250g loads put it on par with a 12ga slug gun. Nothing fun, but manageable to many shooters. Definitely one you don't want to burn up 50 rounds at a shooting session.
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What's the big deal about recoil? It's no worse than a .375 H&H! Or certain 12-gauge loads in particular shotguns! Yes, I've owned lots of 300 mags, a couple of .338 Win Mags and a couple of .375 H&H's. And a couple of .458's, etc. I shot all of them with the heaviest and fastest loads possible and never got a "magnum eyebrow"... but my second son did, twice, because he "crawled the stock"! Now, about the .340... I owned one for 10 years and put a thousand rounds through it, mostly 250s at 3000 fps. That load (250 NP) worked great on a bull moose! Muzzle blast and recoil were relatively mild because it had a 26" tube. The powder was a case full of RL-22 ignited by WLRM primers. The average chronographed 250 NP load over those years was 2997 fps/4985 ft-lbs. The brass was reformed .375 H&H, Winchester and Remington. Much tougher than Weatherby brass. A 200gr Nos. BT was loaded over about 32 grs of SR 4759 for an MV of about 2200 fps with excellent accuracy... a great deer load! The brass never needed trimming. Bob www.bigbores.ca
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