Well until recently the biggest rifle I had shot was my Ruger #1 in .375 H&H which was not bad. I recently decided to get a true big bore and bought a re-barrelled H&R in 585 Hubel Express from ED, I've only shot the starting load 650 gr. bullet at 2400 fps, and it is more of a Big slow push not near as bad as I expected. The worst thing ever was a H&R 12ga with 3" slug and no pad.