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Another cousin had something like that with a brown plastic stock. May have been a savage. That sucker was savage, all right.

If you ask my son...when he was about 5 he shot my browning buckmark, cozy'ed right up the the rear sight and at the shot he caught the slide right on the tip of the nose...took him a while before he wanted to shoot again....but nowdays he's quite the killer...

my uncles 10 gauge double barrel - first time I shot it I pulled both triggers at once - knocked a goose down at close to 100 yards though - set our skull boat back some too...

first time I shot my newly acquired 348/450 in a model 71 with the short stock and the steel butt plate I almost broke my nose with my thumb...

Ruger #1 .458 Open Sights Winchester 500gr Factory Loads

When I was much younger and dumber? On a bet
I shot a rifle silhouette match with it.

Actually hit 9 targets, when I finished I was bruised and the skin had started to split on my shoulder.

That steak dinner sure tasted good.

Flyer

The guy who taught me how to reload had a few kickers to reload for a couple of his customers. The instruction I got on how to reload was free, but i "got" to do the sighting-in.....

He had me shooting all sorts of stuff up to the 375 H&H and 458 Win which i thought were the "King Kong" cartridges of the world. Then i shot a 404 Jeff for someone going on a safari. That lit me up pretty good. I don't remember the rifle brand, but it punched hard.

He had me shoot some loads out of his personal rifle for a moose hunt he had planned. His rifle was a 338 Win mag in a Ruger 77. He gave me the box of cartridges with a smile. I suspected nothing.

I loaded some cartridges in the mag and touched the first one off. I instantly saw stars. My trigger finger felt smashed and i immediately checked around my eye for blood convinced i was "scope-eyed". The old man was chuckling. I finished off the few rounds in the mag and that was all i could take. I was shoulder-bruised for days and trigger finger was black and blue from the trigger guard.

All my shooting for him was from the bench so i got the full "brunt of it".... Incidentally, the old man had bursitis in his shoulder which i then understood the cause...

Boat paddle Ruger 7 mag left a mark on my buddy's arm visible to this day. Damn gun didn't like any load, and after we both shot it a bit we were walking aimlessly like we had been involved in a train wreck.

Also had a Franchi Lightweight AL 12 gauge that must have been crossed with a angry Clydesdale.

Both brought the most joy the day they sold.

16 lb 600 NitroExpress. 900 grain Woodleigh @ 2000fps. Absolutely brutal to me.

Rugers sound like they are the weiner.

That and Remmeys in the rifle realm.

I have a 99A straight stock carbine in .243 that will have you questioning the whole "light recoil" theory after 4 or 5 rounds.

But, as many have already pointed out any of the 3.5" turkey loads are just plain brutal.

When I was about 12 a guy at the local gravel pit talked me into firing his LW .300 Weatherby from prone. That still stands.
A 12 gauge Ithaca Deerslayer shooting slugs would take second.

Boat paddle stock Ruger 77 in .338. Worse than a .378 Wby or a .505 Gibbs.

I had a poorly stocked .308 that kicked like a regular SOB too.

This^^^. The 3.5 hasnt added a half inch of meat more to the 2 3/4 or 3 inch pile.

My M70- super-grade .458win 500gn factory, open sights off the bench,
with an old hard factory pad and just a t-shirt...one curiosity purchase rifle
that didn't take long to find a new home...

next was FA .454casull with heavy compressed loads...but i enjoyed it.

I had a Colt 12 ga.pump action shotgun with an aluminum receiver. With 3 inch shell that thing kick like a mule.

yeap 835 with 3.5in turkey load or maybe it was the 3.5in slugs I had FOR [bleep] AND GRINS for the the tough teens. (my son and his friends )

as far as what should not have "kicked" was marlin mr-7 in 25-06 that [bleep] for what it was was awful

In 1976 the Remington 600 in 350 Rem Mag. I was 16 and shot that rifle from a prone position, over an ammo can. Got a little too close to the scope. It made an impression that I never forgot. Looking real close, you can still see it...

Several come to mind:
1) Ithaca 500 o/u and a BPS Upland Special with 3" 4Buck off a bench to test the pattern.

2) An early LH Rem 700 FS in 338 mag with no scope so about 6.5 pounds.

3) LH Win 70 458 Lott with no scope off the bench.

4) Weatherby 460 with no scope, luckily off hand.

All got my attention and we're not forgotten.

Dean

Hmmmm. Probably my Garcia Bronco .410. Not the heaviest, but most unpleasant.

Used to have a Browning BPS 10 ga. and touched off a 3 1/2" turkey load with 2 1/2 oz. of shot one time...and once was enough. I knew it wasn't needed to kill a turkey, but was curious just how much it kicked. A lot. Was glad I took the shot standing and not from the normal seated position used when turkey hunting.