I often see people talking about recoil and if bigger guns are worth recoil. So, i decided to start a thread to share my thoughts on the subject.

First, most modern guns are way too light for their cartridge! Modern guns trade weight for recoil. This often leads to less practice, which in turn leads to poor shooting. Instead of "how much recoil can I handle?", The real question should be "how much weight can I carry?". Anyone can shoot a 577 NE well as long as the gun is of proper weight...

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This is not intended to be a negative thread and I do request that it doesn’t degenerate into any arguments or rudeness to one another like some recent topics I’ve read.

There are obviously lots of great things about hunting Africa but were there some things that you were apprehensive about or thought you may not like?
How did this pan out?

Some things may have been a non issue and soon forgotten, others perhaps you did in fact not enjoy.

Maybe it was the safety of where you were...

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Just checking to see if anyone has installed a Mercury recoil reducer and can describe the before and after.

I'm from the great state of NSW Australia and in their wisdom the government of said state wants to limit the average licenced shooter to a limit of four calibres.
I'm not entirely sure if that includes rimfire and shotguns, for this exercise we will only limit to centre fire.
My four calibres are

22 250
30 06
9.3x62
404j

Should cover anything I want to hurt anywhere in Australia and overseas

Let the fun begin

Rob

Anybody have any experience with this ammo? It's from around 2011. I got suckered in because the box looks cool to display, but I'm wondering if it's good ammo and would you trust hunting with it considering it's potentially 15 years old.