I prefer to deal with a little more recoil for the benefit of a lighter gun when hunting where I will be carrying it a lot and shooting a few times. You pay for it when sighting it in and practice but it ain’t a prairie dog gun. If I were a professional Buffalo hunter I would definitely want a 16 lb barrel for those long string of shots. I tried toting a 14 lb .44-77 and it gets a little heavy for my kind of hunting

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