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Originally Posted by flatbutt
What's the recoil on that thing? I don't think my shoulder would last long.
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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
I would bet that depends on how much powder he loads in. A full load would be a shoulder bruiser I bet.
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Recoil really isn't all that bad. I do wear a strap-on (heh heh heh - he said "strap on"...
) recoil pad, as the rifle has a steel shotgun style butt plate. The darn thing weighs about 14 pounds, so that really helps as well. And yes, recoil depends a great deal on the powder charge but, like I mentioned above, there is a very narrow range of charges in which it regulates properly. In other words, unlike a single barreled muzzle loader, you can't "load it down" to reduce recoil, because the barrels no longer shoot to the same point of impact. The ball itself weighs about 583 grains, so that kind of helps to define the recoil you experience. I would put it somewhere in about the .375 H&H level of recoil.