Its my understanding the 460 shooting factory ammo is cranking 93 foot pounds of recoil. 375 H&H is doing 37 foot pounds (my limit). I'm jealous of anyone who has the mental and physical fortiude to shoot at that level well.
Not many, short of gunner and Ken, have the cajones to shoot those big cannons on a regular basis.
Gunner has a .505 Gibbs he uses on rocks, 'dillers, wabbits and assorted varmints. That gun started out as a .416 Rigby. He shot it out, had it rebored to .505G. How many do you know who have actually shot out a big boomer like that...
Not many...
DF
LOL, by comparison my old 416 Rigby only had around 53 ft lbs free recoil, my 8 bore with a full load has around 200 ft lbs free recoil, that's an 800 gr round ball over 350 graing of FFg Black powder in a 10 lb rifle with a muzzle velocity of 1400 fps.
My 505 Gibbs and 577 Nitro run about 100 ft lbs each, with 600 gr Woodleighs at a sedate 2150 fps and 750 gr Barnes' at 2070 fps.
Elks 460 loaded full bore is no pussycat either, I used to have one and did take the 500 gr Hornadys all the way to 2800 fps, just to see if I could, brass only lasted a couple firings, did that with IMR-4350, iirc the charge was in the 128 gr neighborhood, loaded the rest to around 2550 after I got through playing.
