Thread: RECOIL....your funny stories.

Originally Posted by Ranger 888

"the recoil sucked me out of my shooting glasses and clapped my earmuffs over my eyes".

I so hope somebody got that on video.

I was 12 when my stepfather took me out for a rabbit hunt with an old side by side 12G. He offered me a shot but without any advice on what to do, so I stood square on and pulled both triggers at once. Went straight over on my arse and had a bruise on my shoulder ( wasn't holding it tight of course) for 6 weeks. Put me off shotguns for years.

After a day at the range with the 308. I don't know why it was my arm that bruised and not my shoulder, but a contributing factor would have been the cancer that was diagnosed three months later.

Originally Posted by Cigar

After a day at the range with the 308. I don't know why it was my arm that bruised and not my shoulder, but a contributing factor would have been the cancer that was diagnosed three months later.
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Blimey - you ok now?

Dropped a paradise duck but only wounded and it tried hiding in a clump of rushes.
I reached forward and put the barrel of the 12g about an inch from its head and pulled the trigger (basically shooting from the hip, but with arms outstretched). Ended up with a big nasty welt across the back of my trigger finger from the trigger guard as the gun flew backwards. Duck was worse off though!

She didn't look like her photo on Tinder!

12 years old. At a mates place shooting a 22. Both of us weren't to bad, shooting match heads at about 20m. His old man comes over (his nick name was/is Turkey), has a look and says you boys are doing alright there, have a go with this at that tree over there.

So I go, good as.

To his credit, he did say stand up and take the shot.

So I line up this 4in tree at 30m, and pull the trigger.
Hit the tree, but end up going backwards to sit on my arse. Turkey Catches the rifle as I'm going backwards.
My shoulder down to right nipple and right elbow, turned every color of the rainbow.
It hurt.

And to this day, 30 years later (and its only been about 10 shots), everytime I get forced into shooting a 30/06, I filnch, sweat, shake and generally shit myself.

Originally Posted by Beaker

12 years old. At a mates place shooting a 22. Both of us weren't to bad, shooting match heads at about 20m. His old man comes over (his nick name was/is Turkey), has a look and says you boys are doing alright there, have a go with this at that tree over there.

So I go, good as.

To his credit, he did say stand up and take the shot.

So I line up this 4in tree at 30m, and pull the trigger.
Hit the tree, but end up going backwards to sit on my arse. Turkey Catches the rifle as I'm going backwards.
My shoulder down to right nipple and right elbow, turned every color of the rainbow.
It hurt.

And to this day, 30 years later (and its only been about 10 shots), everytime I get forced into shooting a 30/06, I filnch, sweat, shake and generally shit myself.

A friend of mine used to ask me to sight in and group his pre-64 action model 70 Winchester 30-06. He insisted that I shot it better than him but I am 99% that he got flinch after firing more than 3 rounds.

Oh I forgot the old Mosin–Nagant carbine, I don't know if it was the worst recoiling rifle but the ergonomics are so bad that you feel every ft/lb of it.

Surely Turkey wouldn't do that to ya.

Originally Posted by csmiffy

Surely Turkey wouldn't do that to ya.

That was 29-30 years ago, and he was a hard good cunt. Still shovelling at that point. Made r93 look tall.

Out hunting with an old journey man. My hand load 308 rounds weren’t chambering properly, luckily I got one in and smacked over a nice stag early in the trip. The next day I decided to leave it behind and the old boy to shoot the next ( if the opportunity arose ) we stumbled onto a mob of pigs 300m away. With his eye site he wasn’t keen to have a crack. He hands his 338 over to me and I think ahhh you have 250 grainers in this!. So naturally, having never shot the rifle, or at a pig 300m away, I flinched like a little bitch in anticipation as I was expecting this brute to kick like a mule. Naturally I missed but then after realising it hardly kicked any more than my 308 I backed the shot up and watched the pig roll on down the hill.

Firing an AK47 for the first time, feel lucky to still have my toes.

Firing an SRS in .338, amazing skull rattle.

My dad joined the South African Police at 16, when he was a bantamweight, to be generous. Shooting practice with LE 303s, lying prone at the top of a slight embankment... He relates how he had to crawl back to the top after each magazine, because the recoil knocked him backwards to the point that he lost sight of the target!

I'll also attest to big game rifles fired lying prone (a sort of initiation for nugget nature conservators in South Africa back in the day...) some things are best done lying down, others standing up... If you have time to lie down prone and aim, you probably don't need to be shooting a 458.

The TSSA held there big bore shoot last year. I cant member the form members names but shot one guys 458win mag. Wasnt as bad as i thought.
Then at the end of the day the owner of the 505 gibs was letting people have a go. Why not. I was concentrating so hard on not flinching and expecting vertical recoil that i relaxed my grip around the pistol grip. Jumped straight out of my hand and pushed my shoulder back a good foot with the bolt just toughing my face.
with a 650gr projectile at 1950fps and no muzzle break, no muzzle rise, the recoil energy is all linear straight backwards haha.


But i didnt drop it. So thats nice i guess.

Could somebody please post this video:

Shooting gun test 577 tyrannosaur t rex gun.

(Shooters being flung about by a bastard cannon of a rifle)