You know, it’s never the first 10 shots that get me. It’s the last 10-50, at least with most LA stuff and my >7mm stuff. My light 356/358s accumulate quickly. LOL

Then again, a 243 with a short barrel starts giving me a headache from blast after a while, so blast is just as big of an issue in a hunting gun, when doing extended shooting....IME.

Again, not that I’m recoil ‘shy’, just recoil sensible. I like to shoot what I hunt, as much as is possible/practical...but I’ve never burned out a barrel on one of my hunting centerfires. My Tactical/range guns are a different story, but more because I don’t give them a chance sometimes. LOL