Very true about recoil with a light weight rifle especially off the bench. I was helping a young fellow sight in a scope mounted on an H&R .45-70 (!) single shot. He looked over at me and said, "It's real hard to see the target through all these tears."
I mounted a scope on an H&R for the brother of a friend of mine. My friend and I wound up doing the initial sighting in with ammunition his brother supplied. The cartridge was 35 Whelen, and the supplied ammo was heavy duty stuff from Buffalo Bore. Tears were not shed, but it wasn't a lot of fun either.
