Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Do you consider the recoil of a .458 WM painful?

I've onwned 2 Ruger 1's shot one, at 30 years old recoil was tolearable, at 64 no way.

I was 21 when I excepted a bet to shoot 40 rounds, I did it broke the skin on my shoulder.

The steak was great, but someone else cut it, though by end of the meal the whiskey dulled the pain.

I don't know. Out of what? The most painful rifle I ever owned was a lightweight 25-06.

Uncle of one my buds had a .458 he deer hunted with in the 70,s.
Think it was a ruger 77??? don't really remember now or cared at the time.
More of a talk about brag thing is what it was anyways.
Them old guys never killed any deer anyways to drunk and hungover to get up.
Even when they was young they didnt kill many deer either.
And the ones they did were pure stumble bum GFG luck..

Then they made a big to do if they went out " hunting" for 2 or 3 hours.
With a six pack of course.

No, bought my second one a few months ago, should never have sold the first.

I didn’t find the 500NE too bad either.

Depends on fit and balance of the rifle more.

It will sure as hell never be a problem for me.

I had an Interarms MK X. Great rifle but I preferred hot 45-70 style loads in it. Yes the 500 gr. full power loads were tough after 3 or 4 from the bench.
If I remember my favorite load was 66.0 grains of IMR4064 and a 405 grain flat point. Sadly, it went down the road. I needed an air compressor worse than I needed a 458 win mag. at that time.

Mirrors my own experience exactly.

No.

Have shot two.

One a bolt gun. Ran nearly a box stout of 500 grain handloads through it from the bench. Not hateful at all.

The other, a 14" T/C Encore handgun. Again.........not horrible. But kinda like a good smack in the palm with a rubber mallet.

I agree with others here in that it produces more of a hard “push” rather than a snappy hard “kick”. One thing I enjoy about it is the wide range of loads you can come up with. Some offer hardly any recoil at all I compare some to a 12 ga shotgun. I’ve shot 338’s, the 340 Weatherby and others that have substantially more recoil.

Not as painful as it’s big brother, 458 Lott which I have.

I consider the recoil from a light 12ga shotgun, shooting a 1 oz rifled slug, "painful". And yes...I do it all the time.

.458 is twice the fun.

No.

My .458 is a M70 that is 2 yrs old. Has a Leupy 1.5-5 on it.

More of a big shove than anything.

My buddy has both a 378wby and a 416wby. You can have those, they give me a migraine

Shot a Model 70 in .458, I thought it was STOUT, but not all the way into painful. A friend's .375 ASquare same way, stout, not devastating. My OTHER buddie's TC Encore synthetic stock, .375 H&H? Yes. That hurt...

I’ve never shot the Winchester version but do have an RSM Lott. It’s a big gun and heavy for the round. It’s a handful but isn’t abusive at all. Compared to an 835 with 3.5” turkey loads it’s a pussycat to shoot. My best friends daughter shot my rifle once when I had it out. She isn’t big at all and I was genuinely worried it would hurt her. She fired a 500 grain DGS round and turned around smiling. I think my two 300 Weatherbys hurt more than a real elephant gun.

Nope.

I've been around and shot two. One was a Ruger Express with factory ammo. Its owner used it for blasting muskrat and carp in the Kishwaukee river. It wasn't bad at all.

The second was irfubar's custom Mauser. I don't like Mausers but that rifle is truly awesome. He had some custom hand poured kryptonite schit loaded for it and it was a true pleasure to shoot. I'm not sure if I'm the woman or the child he referenced in his previous post.

Compared to what?

I've never fired a .458 WM but have fired two factory rounds out of a .460 Weatherby Magnum and found that to be surprisingly tolerable.

No. The 458 Win Mag was my second centerfire rifle when I was a kid. I shot everything in AK with it. I doubt I was 130 lbs. Don’t pull it away from your shoulder while twisting to shoot a running deer though… you will be disappointed.

I discovered medium and big bore in my late 40s...

Sure wish I had before...

Probably the #1 thing I tell younger shooters... "Don't waste 20-30 years to discover that medium and big bore is some of the funnest and most accurate shooting you will ever do."