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Originally Posted by KC911
I have zero experience with modern rifles...they scare me  . Never shot anything like 'em....
How much recoil does the shooter feel with .308...verses say a .30-30 out of a lever gun? Similar to how a .45ACP tames handspoon cartridges...give or take? |
If you look at the pure physics, a 30-30 has a 150 grain bullet (just under 10 grams) moving at 2400fps, 762NATO spec for M80 ammo is 147grn bullet at 2700fps. Given that NRG=mass * velocity * velocity, the 762 has a little more potential recoil than 30-30.
Now throw ergonomics and such into the equation and things change rapidly.
Gas operation will reduce felt recoil. Good ergonomics will too. I've had the pleasure of being able to fire a full mag from a full auto FAL, a full auto G3/HK91, and a real full auto M14 back-to-back-to-back. Of the three, the FAL has less felt recoil and was more controllable (keep on target). The G3/HK was pretty controllable but that delayed roller block doesn't help the shoulder much. The M14 had less felt recoil than the G3, more than the FAL, and had a very hard to control amount of muzzle rise.
And yes, Right Arm of the Free World. The words in the image below are the countries that issued a FAL variant... 93 of 'em.
