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I fired Saeed's .577 T-Rex when I visited him. I declined to shoot the .700 Nitro.

I purchased a beautiful .378 weatherby mag years ago.
Balanced nice, wood stock was outstanding came with a Weatherby scope and was a left hand model Mark V.
The beauty ended when the trigger was pulled! Even wearing a Past recoil pad.
Fired 9 shots trying to sight in the scope. Mounts were not tight enough on the tube to keep the scope from shifting back

Next morning I had a bruise on my shoulder that sent color from my elbow to middle of my chest and a flinch that took quite awhile (had to go into airguns) to get completely over.

Sold that gun - good riddance!
Call me a sissy if you want, but I don't miss watering eyes and loose teeth.....

Recoil velocity on a .378 Wby. Mark V is the problem - it hits you so fast!

My view of shooting is that it is supposed to be fun. The above description of events is not.

Around 2011 or 2012 I shot a 4 bore belonging to Cal Pappas when we used to have our double rifle shoots at Birchwood Range in Chugiak Alaska every spring. Cal warned me to hang onto it. I was wearing a thick parka and the single shot fit me pretty good. Pulled the trigger and rifle literally pointed straight up and pushed me back at least a step. Had a black and blue bruise on my shoulder about the size of an orange for 2 weeks.
After this I decided there was nothing to prove by testing my recoil tolernace.

For my 18th birthday (20+ years ago)
My dad got me cz 12 ga. over/under. Even with 2 3/4”, #8 sport or dove loads, it kicks like you’re shootings a slug. Kind of reminds me of mosin nagant in the sh*ty wood stock with metal plate for shoulder pad.
Once I also tried to shoot both triggers at once to see what happens, that was a mistake.
I can shoot my 06 all day, step up to 7 or 300 mag and I’m just not too fond of it.

20+ years ago I moved up to AK and quickly realized I was under gunned and over scoped. Only having my 22-250 & 25-06. I traded both for a very custom 8mm rem mag that tipped the scales at an even 7 pounds with a 2.5X Leupy. Never Ever have I experienced such severe cheek slap. It was like getting kicked in the face by a Mule every time I tripped the trigger on that monster. 2 years and about 5K rounds of 22lr later I was running a 338-06 with 210gr NPTs no issues.