Hardest kicking gun you've ever shot?

[evbutler462]

Thinking back over the past seventy years, I've fired a few single barrels that got my attention. I suppose the only one that really hurt was a tenite stocked Stevens 94 made in the 1940s. That plastic stock made it as light as a feather. Same punishment at both ends of the gun.

Some years ago, when Stoeger came out with the first genration of their 2000 models, though the gun was reliable and cycled anything stuffed into it, it rocked me pretty good. I couldn't handle the recoil of that old gun so I gave it to my son. When the new generation M2000 came out three years ago, I liked the looks of it but was hesitant to buy it due to the recoil. The gun shop clerk told me that if I put a good pad on it, that I wouldn't notice the kick. I bought it and a Limbsaver #10008, $26.95, and the gun shop screwed it on for me.

Believe it or not, it is one of my favorite guns now. It shoots like a 410. I shoot slugs and buckshot in it hog hunting.

I think I'll vote for the old model 2000 for the worst kicking gun I've ever shot.

Your hardest kicking gun?

 

[ATAShooter]

1148 Remington 12ga I borrowed one time... Beat me like a rented mule.

 

[jimmyraythomason]

Stevens 94 12ga with hardwood stock. Man that thing was nasty!

 

[GrandmasterB]

H&R Topper single shot 12Ga kicked hard. I also had a Stevens 311 side by side 12Ga with double triggers. I pulled both triggers simultaneously "just to see what would happen".

 

[Jonah71]

Maybe I was just a skinny young kid at the time (1962), but I seem to remember my Uncle's old Browning 12 ga. having quite a kick. Especially when I was use to shooting my Stevens .22 bolt action. A bit of a difference.

 

[oldpuppymax]

I've owned a hundred or more pistols, but have never much cared for rifles. My first experience with a fairly lightweight 30 06 was very instructive. I fired 5 rounds and had a blue and yellow left shoulder for 2 weeks.

 

[Slamfire]

H&R Topper, 12 GA with slugs or buckshot. Try to shoot one prone with slugs. I tried that to determine exactly where it was printing. I won't do it again.

 

[HGUNHNTR]

Browning A-Bolt slug gun followed by a Weatherby Mark V in .460 wby, w, and w/o the brake.

Believe it or not the Abolt seemed to kick harder, but I'm sure the fact that it was shot off of the bench, and the Weatherby was shot freehanded had something to do with it.

 

[PT1911]

interesting... I have a steven's 94 12 ga and it is a pleasure to shoot.. Sadly and interestingly, it is one of my favorite shotguns.. Extremely light, fast to the shoulder, and I always found the recoil to be tame....especially as compared to my Bakail side by side 20 ga... I cannot explain it, but that gun HURTS. I love it and the way it shoots but it just plain hurts.... and it is a fairly heavy double barrel 20 with a decent recoil pad.

 

[ghitch75]

.460 weatherby ....hurts!!!...i like a gun with kick...but not that much!!! 1 is all i wanted

12g 1148 10+1...large men put it down after 1 shot


12g Bounty Hunter both barrels @ once high brass...same as above

 

[KevininPa]

My father-in-laws 10G H&R single. It's his turkey gun. That baby hurts!

 

[halfded]

H&R single shot 12 gauge got me too. Even with 2 recoil pads, that thing kicked my skinny rear end pretty good!

Cut down the barrel and re-carved the stock into a pistol grip, now that's a good time! It was actually WAY more comfortable to shoot that way and I even hit a couple skeets with it.

 

[PA Curmudgeon]

Remington 700 BDL, chambered for 7mm magnum. That one was 'snappy'.

 

[Hunterdad]

My 12ga 870 shooting Remington Buckhammers

 

[ReloaderFred]

A Rossi Coach Gun with 3" #4 Magnums. That gun was no fun to shoot at all.

Fred

 

[308win]

10ga SXS. I don't recall whether it was 3" or 31/2", in fact I am trying to erase any memory of the whole experience.

 

[Will-Seattle]

I fired 2 shots off the bench with a 470 nitro express. That was fun. It gave me an interesting right shoulder click for a few weeks. No residual problems.

Will

 

[MCgunner]

A light weight Spanish built Sarasqueta double barrel shooting slugs, or the time my finger slipped off the front trigger and tapped the rear, both barrels shooting 3" goose loads. OUCH!

My 10 gauge H&R rocks pretty good with 3.5" T shot and 00 buck loads, but it ain't as bad as that old double shooting a slug. Neat thing, though, that thing shoots like a double rifle, really accurate. No Kentucky windage to counter barrel regulation, either, at least at 50 yards, which is unusual on a cheap double gun.

I've shot up to .375 H&H for rifles and nothing kicks like that old double with slugs.

 

[Owen]

Denel NTW-20 chambered in 20x110. shooting prone, I slid back about 3" after every shot.

Most painful was a Marlin lever action in .45-70 with full house hunting reloads or the S&W Scandium .357. In both cases, I shot 3 rounds and quit.

 

[thebigc]

definitly the pardner single shot with magnum goose loads it has a bit of a kick but after learnining to hold it really tight to my shoulder it does not bother me much anymore just after 3-4 rounds i get a slight buttpad shaped bruise the next day and its sore.

 

[MCgunner]

BTW, that 10 gauge H&R is a turkey model, but I goose hunt with it. Last year I put 22 rounds of T shot 3.5" through it in one morning. I was sore for a day or two, but no worse than a good morning with that old 12 SxS shooting 3" 12, really. It does kick a little more, but the stock fits better. That right there accounts for a lot of hurt if the gun doesn't fit well.

 

[MCgunner]

or the S&W Scandium .357.

I heard DAT!

 

[rattletrap1970]

.45 Winchester Mag. I shot an LAR Grizzly at at a gun show years ago at Blue Trail range in Connecticut. Holy crap. After 3 rounds it felt like someone beat my hand with a mallet. Fun.. But, ouch.

 

[19-3Ben]

Shot a friend's Benelli Nova with 3.5" loads. Ouch.
Of course there's the Mosin M38. That kicks like mad, and the steel buttplate doesn't really help much. Shooting it from the bench is... well, it's an experience. I'll say that much!

 

[rondog]

My brother bought some crappy single-shot .22's just like this one, totally useless. But he also has a single-shot .410 exactly like this, steel frame and all, and that's the hardest kicking little s.o.b. I've ever shot. Truly painful to shoot. No idea who made 'em.