Posted on 03/26/2008 12:05:56 AM PDT by Stoat
I think I will stick with my .270!
That would take my arm off.
5,250,000 grains.
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To qoute a friend of mine:
“Shot placement is King. Adequate penetration is Queen. Everything else is angels dancing on the head of a pin.”
Source indicates it's .577 T-Rex. The same weight bullet but at 2,460 fps verses 2,050 fps for the .577 Nitro Express. In the same weight rifle, that would translate to about 20% more recoil. (.8 dB more recoil.. to mix general usages.)
Wow! - That’s even morealot.
In this case I think he may be fixing something that is not broke.
There are any number of recoil reducing pads and recoil reducing accessories on the market now. Limbsaver comes to mind as one example.
The hardest kicking rifle I have ever personally fired was a Military Spanish Mauser chambered in .308.
It had nothing to do with the cartridge or the bullet weight.
The buttstock had a strange cut with a steel plate attached to conform to the shape of the cut.
Mounting it to my shoulder in the soft "v" as is my custom I thought I had separated my shoulder blade after I fired it the first time.
Before I fired it again, I purchased a cheap rubber sleeve type recoil reducer to slide over the buttstock and now it shoots as well as any gun I have.
Great truck gun.
Recoil was not the problem, it was gun design.
Best regards,
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