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Small guns, like the Shield and my P365 or my P224, generally have a snappy recoil, sometimes objectionably so. My 365 is not fun to shoot - it really needs a comp. The 224, which is a .40 but about twice the weight of the 365 is just "snappy".My experience with those rounds in a S&W Shield were the opposite of that, I found the 45 Shield much less 'snappy' and easier to shoot, but the pistols were not identical, the 45 was in a standard Shield and the 40 is my 4" ported optics ready version. Not real sure why that was, it might have been that the orts helped hold the slide down so the recoil was more straight back into my hand or it could be that the ports increased muzzle blast and I was reacting to that And yes, I was wearing ear pro
The worst recoiling gun I ever shot was a .380 - a Grendel P10.
Small guns have a lot of variables that affect recoil; they have short slides and springs so slide velocity is faster and the spring/etc. has less time to respond, they generally have short grips, and often have lightweight. IME, weight is the most significant variable.