Nees ome help !

[WildmanJack]

I know it's been a while but I finally got to the range and tried those Buffalo Bore .45 Colt 325 gr/1325fps rounds. Well in short, I ain't gonna do that again till I get a recoil pad!!! Those rounds are pretty heavy in this little 20" barrel Winchester. I was honestly amazed at the recoil. I think I'll save them for something much larger and better tasting than a piece of paper.
Well, I said I'd post the results and there they are. I have no idea how accurate the round is, as I only shot 3 of them. They were just too much with no recoil pad... OK go ahead and call me a wimp.. I deserve it....

[runfiverun]

you aint no wimp
i have a nice shoulder bruise from some 44mag loads and they are only 240 gr
92's are just not bench rest friendly the 100yd 1 1/2" braggin group was worth it ?
those sooty cases don't look so bad now i am betting...

[versifier]

Ever since, at age 8, I touched off a .30-30 m94 with a 170gr load, it has always amazed me how much felt recoil those light little levers can produce. I hit the target, but it was 5 or 6 years before I fired anything bigger than a .22. I much prefer shooting the .30-30 out of a 10" Contender - it's much less abusive. With a SA revolver and a similarly hot .45Colt load, it rolls up in your hand distributing the force over a longer time and letting the arm muscles take up some of it instead of transferring the whole thing to the unprotected bones of your shoulder through a hard (or metal!!) butt plate.

You don't notice it when hunting, but then you aren't leaning into it and you don't fire more than two shots. From the bench I always use a Past recoil shield when shooting anything bigger than a .250Sav. It helps me concentrate on the shooting while testing loads, and I often will shoot several hundred high power rifle rounds through several different rifles during a range session. It's not wimpy to choose to avoid a bruised shoulder, and being sooo macho that you develop a nasty flinch does nothing for your shooting accuracy and renders any results from the testing useless. The other plus to the recoil shield is that it mimics the thickness of a winter coat during warm weather practice so you aren't losing time trying to find the sights while the buck is heading for the next county.