Worst Recoiling Gun You Have Fired...

by jgt, Wednesday, March 27, 2013, 11:11 (4204 days ago) @ TomC

There is no rhyme or reason why some guns recoil the way they do. I have always shot guns considered by others to be heavy recoiling guns, but some of the worst to me were true anomales. The first was my brother's Savage 16 gage with a plastic stock and a magnum shell. Next was an early Charter Arms bulldog with a factory load. Then a Remington 410 automatic model something like 1148 with the barrel that recoils into the receiver. Last was a Rossi 92 in 44 magnum with a 250k on top of 24 grn of h4227.
I shoot 44 magnum handguns and 444 levers a lot, but the guns I mentioned were real attention getters. The most surprising was the 410. I later came to believe this was a JMB designed gun that used a gas ring and the ring was to be turned one way for high brass load and another for low power loads. If the high brass load was used with the ring turned the wrong way it let too much gas into the port to operate the action and thus the horrific recoil. Couldn't be good for the action either.