Anybody Ever Been Kicked By a Mule?

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Worst was a sporter weight Ruger #1 in .45-70, loaded to .458 Win Mag levels. No recoil pad, just a plastic butt plate. Elephant rifle with the weight of a .22. Wow. After one shot my shoulder was black & blue to my rib cage for a couple of weeks.

Had a neighboring farmer that got kicked square on by an Angus steer. Broke his hip, leg, and knee. Not the best day of his life. He never was right after that. Of course, he wasn't right before that either.

He asked the doctor if he could play golf after it healed. Doctor says "sure"...

He says "That's great...never could play golf before"...
 
No my friends, neither Mosins nor Yugo Mausers qualify as heavy recoil let alone mule-level recoil. Those are actually MODERATE recoling firearms. Quite moderate since they're heavy to begin with and absorb most of the shock.

Redneck is right on, try a Ruger No. 1 with Buf. Bore loads, or the aforementioned Ithaca deerslayer with Brenneke magnums. Those are heavy recoiling, but still not mule level. The Ruger seriously hurt me, and I'm enormous.

Mule level would be an eight bore elephant gun or a large nitro express double.
 
Well folks I’ve been kicked by a mule, a horse and a Hereford bull. None of these experiences do I wish to repeat. Forty years later I still have trouble with my left shoulder and shoulder blade where the mule and horse got me. No fire arm could be as bad as those three.

I’ve shot a lot of different calibers rifles in my life up to a .375 H&H and 458 Lott. These two were tuff but manageable.
The 2 worst kicking rifles I ever shot were an all up 7# 7mm Weatherby Mag w/175gr bullets and a 5½ # sporterized 8mm Mauser with hot 200gr loads and a steel butt plate.
The worst shotgun I ever shot was not great-grand Dad’s 10 gauge double but a friend’s Mossberg 12 pump with 3 ½” shells.
The worst pistol I ever shot was a Ruger Flattop 4½” barreled 44 Mag with some warm 300gr loads.
 
I have a "Savage 940e" single shot 12ga. I once fired some 3in. mags in it, When the boom was over I was standing there with the forestock in my left hand and the rest of the gun in my right hand.

"Mule" not even close!
 
One night While pulling perimeter guard in an artillery unit in Pleiku province, Vietnam, I had just drifted off to sleep when they fired the first volley of three guns just outside my hooch... heaven opened... or hell...

Ed
 
H&H 600 Nitro Express...hurt more than my old Ithaca O/U 12, which would double with buck or slugs. Only shot the H&H once (to satisfy a friend), and gave up trying to use buck or slugs in the Ithaca! :)
 
I have shot many larger calibers that I promise do not recoil as much as a light weight, German built .300 Weatherby I own. It is a thin barreled rifle with a sharp stock (thin across the recoil pad and drop in the stock) that when fired is a quick, loud, and sharp recoil! It is not un-manageable, but it is not fun to shoot either! It is close to mule status in my book, but I shoot it surprisingly well!
 
Worst I've ever experienced is not a rifle but a pump 12-gauge with 3-inch magnum loads. Magnum 00 buck + hard worn-out recoil pad = owchies. I've also learned not to shoot heavy shotgun loads wearing certain types of shirts, as the kick can leave a painful weave imprint in your shoulder.

Hardest-kicking rifle I've fired is a Mosin M44 with heavy ball. Stout but certainly manageable.
 
worse I've experienced was a friends Rem 700 in .300 mag.

The rifle was brandy new with the nice recoil pad (limbsaver?) that the factory puts on.

More bothersome than the recoil was the "earth shattering Kaboom!"

one loud mule
 
Well, I've not been kicked by a mule but when I was a kid growing up in rural northcentral Arkansas, my next door neighbor and buddy had a palomino Shetland pony he'd named Little Trigger.

Little Trigger was mean as a barrel of rattlesnakes and bit me once. Hurt like blazes, too! He loved to bite people and when we kids would get on him, he'd head directly for a clothes line out in the back yard and drag us off. We didn't ride Little Trigger much.

Oh, guns, huh? When I was about 14, I shot one round from my father's friend's Holland & Holland .600 Nitro Express. That hurt more than being bitten by Little Trigger. :D

L.W.
 
when i was little, i dont remember how old, i got to shoot an m-1a and it knocked me on the ground. the recoil wasn't that bad, i just wasn't expecting it. my head sure hurt when i hit the ground...
 
Got kicked in the side of the knee by a horse once. My knee swelled up so much I couldn't get my jeans off. Hurt like hell.
 
^^^^ That was me.

It didn't swell up right away, but I could barely walk. The next day it looked like the creature from Alien was trying to birth itself from my femur. No, it wasn't broken, or even cracked, but it was most certainly bruised.

Oh, and the horse's name was Goblin. That should have been a clue. :banghead:

Mike
 
12 guge sxs with 3inch slugs that hurt

ummmmmm jogo the donky and lots of horses (grew up around them and now work at a stable) does that count as a mule?

lean i got bitten by a pony at while teaching summer camp today i think i hurt myself smacking it morethen it hurt me biting me
 
The reason that some people put a mule in with horses, is for predator protection. A horse will kick wildly, while a mule will aim his kicks like he knows karate.

A good mammoth jack mule is as strong as two horses. (And arguably better looking) Plus they look good in straw hats. :cool: :D
 
I once heard a story very brave man fire a .460 wby into a ballistic tube. blew the thing to sh*t. dented the barrel on the tube, and sent those little balls everywhere. 30-.378 wby and 10 gauge turkey loads are my personal bests.
 
The only very heavy recoil I've experienced was a 3" Magnum Slug from a 870. The 14" stock is too long for me, and it had the standard recoil pad. That kicked like a mule IMO.

The M91/30 & M44 that I've owned were never bad on recoil as many say.
 
As a youngster and very small, I was loaned a lightweight double barrel 16 ga. It had a bad sear. When you pulled one trigger, both barrels fired.

I had to shoot it a second time to verify it wasn't me pulling both triggers. We were squirrel hunting, and I felt like a tent stake getting hammered into the ground.
 
On a somewhat related question...I shot a Benelli semiauto with 12ga 3 1/2" buck load once (that's enough, thanks very much), and was told the guy's 458 Lott CZ bolt didn't kick as much, but didn't get a chance to try it. I'd like to know how a .375 H&H in say a 8-9lb rifle would compare to that 3 1/2" buck load? Always thought I'd kinda like to have a .375, but I'm not wild about gratuitous self abuse from a caliber I don't really need for the hunting I do. I'm unlikely to ever hunt anything bigger than elk, and my 7.62X54R can handle that...
 
Coronach said:
I, too, have been kicked by a horse. I have never felt any recoil that hurt more than that. I can't imagine that a mule would be too far off. If someone handed me a gun and said "it kicks like a mule" and I knew he wasn't exaggerating, I would hand it right back.

Seriously.

Mike
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I had to laugh when I read the initial post and I've also got to agree with the post quoted above. I've been kicked by a horse (and cow-kicked, stomped, bitten and otherwise abused by them) and I wouldn't want to willingly feel that again.
 
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