Recoil affecting me in my later years

by Bob Hatfield , Sunday, October 28, 2012, 05:26 (4356 days ago)

Recoil is not agreeing with my body anymore. I have noticed that in the last year or so a range session with a high intensity bolt action or 45-70 leaves me miserable for the rest of the day. After 20 mixed rounds of 30-06, 7mm RM, and several 45-70 rouunds, I feel like I've been eat by a wolf and s**t over a cliff the rest of the day.

I like to shoot my guns from a variety of field positions and from the bench when messing with loads. I guess I am an experimenter and cannot help it. My goodness even 20 rounds of 45-70 loaded to 1200 fps jars my body to the point that I feel like you do when you have the flu.

I'm only 57 and have my weight in the 175 lb range at 5'10". I did lose 25 lbs this year, so maybe that 25 lbs of suet was soaking up the recoil before LOL

Looks like I'll be breaking out a 222 or a 223, 5.45's and 7.62 Soviets and such. My buddys cant figure out why the heck I hunt with an old 94 or a 357 carbine with all those big old bolt actions with the big rounds, but now even 20 rounds of 30-30 is beating me up.

I guess I could be one of those guys that shoots his gun two times and puts it up except for hunting where he shoots it once and says "Thats good enough for deer".

I shoot a lot of traditinal muzzleloading with the club matches monthly and the Nationals at Friendship. One thing I have noticed is that shooting a lot of round balls with charges up to 70 grains doesnt have the effect on my body that the high velocity/heavy rounds do.

Any of you other baby boomer type experiencing this?