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Just watched this, Kentucky Ballistics always puts out fun and interesting YouTube Videos, enjoy.

I think the host started intentionally losing so as not to embarrass his guest. There's more skill and experience involved in managing recoil than physical strength or body weight.

I wouldn't shoot the 4ga.

Scot isn't much smaller

One thing I find interesting is, that no matter what caliber I am shooting, if I am shooting at live game, I never feel a thing.

Over a hundred pounds smaller.

You could see Eddie Hall’s inexperience when he was shooting the hard recoiling rifles. He wasn’t gripping them very firmly amd got thumped.

Ron

You can't fight it. You have to learn to roll with it. I'll bet a smaller guy who can roll will get hit much less than him.

What a humble guy, Conrad never mention his stint on Kentucky Ballistics!!

Don't go snow goose hunting. It's not the first 20, it's the next 100 that gets ya.

FIXT

I don't know about that

I have a 10 ga Blunderbuss that I built from scratch
It uses a .760 patched ball in a .788 bore

25+ years ago I weighed in at 120#
Shooting 80 gr of FF powder with 2 balls wearing Moccasins on pine needles I would slide back a full step.

Nothing was gunna stop me from sliding back.

Now I am roughly 215 and with the same load I just get pushed back a bit with no sliding.

Having more Lard to push against helps a bit with recoil.

One of my snow goose hunts, 75 that morning, and ducks between my father and I. No issues then but I was young. Now that I am in my 60's, it would hurt unless I was shooting a 410 lol.

And sometimes what seems to be fun at 40-50 will come back to bite you at 60-70 with great big teeth !!!! Big sumbitches........

heavy recoil is something you kind of have to learn to deal with. people not used to it are generally beat up much worse. and big heavy boys that are not used to it absorb much more the impact instead of it pushing them. they tend to soak up the complete recall instead of getting pushed out of the way. this is what my experience is seen from others. little guys may get not completely down that big boys in the long run get hurt much worse

Recoil is funny... my 300 RUM is not fun at all, .375 H&H is easy. Dad's old style Rem 760 06 is downright miserable. Buddy has a boat-paddle Ruger .338. I've fired exactly one round from that rifle in my life.....

Sissies. Put a scope on, then make a video.

Worst feeling recoiling rifle I own is a toss between a Remington 600 in 350 Mag and my Mossberg 835 with 3.5 TSS loads but they feel a lot different. The 835 just pushes the hell out of you and the 600 is bone jarring pain. neither I can feel shooting at game though. My wife shot my 416 Rigby and it didn't bother her.

I shot 3 pellets, a 300 grain XTP and the ramrod while sitting down. I think I could have done a Chicago neck shot on a brontosaurus with that load.

Watch other YouTube videos of people shooting the 577 Trex. They're a real hoot. Eddie did awesome compared to them.