Thread: RECOIL....your funny stories.

A 4 gauge shotgun showing its displeasure at being fired.

Recoil bites us all. Whether it's a sore shoulder from a day's shooting, a bleeding halfmoon above your shooting eye from being "scoped" or being knocked flat on your ass from firing a 12ga for the first time and not being ready for it, we all suffer, unless all you own is a 223 or smaller.

What has kicked you?

My first gun was a single shot 12g. A mate took me to gun club to shoot a few clays. I used a box of game load, and by the time I got to clay #23, I couldn’t shoulder the gun at all

Gave me a flinch I’ve had to consciously work on for the last 40+ years

I was shooting with a guy that caught his eyebrow with the nightforce that was atop his 50bmg. Gave him shit all day until we were spotlighting that night and I saw a Wallaby run out beside the truck, quickly took the shot and took the brunt of a 450 bushmaster to the eye. I shut up after that.

If you want to "feel" a bit of recoil, try a net gun.

Originally Posted by tetawa

If you want to "feel" a bit of recoil, try a net gun.

I recall @gundoc writing on another forum, saying that the recoil from those guns pushed the door gun guys into the side of their helo fuselages, leaving dents.

Originally Posted by Max Headroom

I recall @gundoc writing on another forum, saying that the recoil from those guns pushed the door gun guys into the side of their helo fuselages, leaving dents.

I have a pic somewhere of dint made not that long ago from a net gun. Definitely happened on almost all machines doing capture.


Sent from my SM-T510 using Tapatalk

Net gunner, not nut gunner ( but sometimes you have to wonder.)

Dunno what happened to original post about a net gunner battering the door surround of a chopper when I tried to edit ‘nut’ to be ‘net’ but oh well....

Mucking round with a 12g pump action one day, didnt realise my mate had snuck a solid 3"slug in the tube along with the light clay loads......

i owned a tokarev svt40 (7.62x54R).
bought it from a gunshop, took it to the range, filled the magazine with 10 rounds of ammo. took sight of my target at 50m and the whole 10 rounds went thru with one trigger pull.
scared the crap outta me !

I've told this one before, but I'll tell it again.

Took @TimeRider to the range to get her to shoot with a centrefire. The groups started tiny, but quickly grew in size. I asked why the groups had opened up? TR, "Don't know." I stood to one side and watched again and could see movement in the temple by her eye, "You closing your eye when you go to pull the trigger?" TR, "No." I watch again, "Yes you are closing your eye. Why?" TR, "It's pushing be back when I fire." GM, "It's a 223 with a suppressor, it's not pushing you back. If I see you close your eye again I'm going to poke you in the neck with a sharp stick." Groups tightened back up.

I know it's not what you'd expect from a story about 'recoil'.

Um, let's see. Firearms that have made me bleed over the years:

Glock 26 - tiny bloody grip, slide cut the web of my hand between thumb and index finger
Very light 12 ga shotty - thumb whacked into my nose
Unbraked, lightweight 270 - scoped
Marlin 45/70 lever - broken skin and bruised knuckles just about every time I go to the range

"Interesting" recoil that did not result in bleeding:

454 Casull revolver - fired one shot and that was enough, thank you !
50 BMG
404 Jefferey elephant gun

i fired 20 rounds out of a 454. took days till the tingling left my hand

I fired a 3 1/2 in game load out of pump 12ga.

Afterwards I whimpered a bit and went away for a milo and a nap.

Those things are a bit of a handful.

Originally Posted by Max Headroom

I fired a 3 1/2 in game load out of pump 12ga.

Afterwards I whimpered a bit and went away for a milo and a nap.

Those things are a bit of a handful.

I had not problem shooting a hundred a day. Not enough of me to offer any resistance.

Learning wingshooting as a kid with the 12ga U/O Baikal and no recoil pad. 2-3/4" reloads with 1-1/8oz shot, but unbeknownst to us at the time the powder bushing in the MEC reloader was the wrong one. Not dangerous (luckily) but definitely a hot load. Never even got in the same area code as a flying duck until Dad sourced some 1-oz loads factory loads a bit later down the track.