Practically recoiless too.Right up till you fire it. ;-)
I've heard one can use the recoil to correct shoulders dislocated by previous shots!
Patrick McManus worked that into one of his humor articles in either
Outdoor Life or
Field & Stream. Something about how as a kid, he had to borrow hunting rifles. One such example was something "...left over from the Indian wars..." which, when test fired, vaporized a fence post and moved Pat's nose to the unoccupied space above his left eyebrow. Where it would thereafter be safe.
McManus probably wrote that, knowing that a bunch of newbie hunters would appreciate the tale due to the real-life thumpings they received from Nagant "deer rifles".