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I wonder if all these big bad new electric impacts are bad you your hands/arms.

Ive been holding impact guns daily since i've been 18 now. I don't ever remember having any real arm pain, other than a short bout of tennis elbow.
Moved to re chargeable impacts roughly 2 years ago . I have been having some arm pain off and on for the last year, and am noticing that it goes away when I go back to my old small air gun .
That big Milwaukee grabs, and twists my wrist, arm, and even shoulder every time I press the trigger . If you have one , try it , the thing is brutal. It is also huge, and heavy, causing me to have a death grip on it when using, and finally, the hammer parts of the gun are huge , and I think transmit way more vibration into my hands/arm.
Any of you guys use these daily and experienced similar ?
Its kind of like using a 5 pound sledge to drive trim nails, or buying a Ram 3500 to haul your bicycle rack on .
I think I am going to move back to air for the big stuff , and use the smaller 3/8 electric impact to drive everything else
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