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Bet you'll be the reigning champ of this thread if you end up with the BFR 30/30 you desire.*
*no experience with the BFR except I saw one once in 45/70 at a ffl in Safford, AZ. Still not interested. View attachment 758301
From what I've read the BFR is in .30/30 is spunky, but not all that bad, even compared to the really big boomers out of a revolver. But who knows. Regardless, it is on the list to acquire to pair with one of my favorites, the Winchester 94. (I've even had a fleeting thought of Form 1ing it and rigging up some kind of skeleton stock. But I'm pretty much done with stamp collecting for the foreseeable future.)
Regardless, it still can't be as thunderous, and most unpleasant, as the Serbu Super Shorty we have in the battery:
It is a 12-gauge (2¾ and 3") with a 6½ barrel. Recoil is harsh to the point I've only shot it with gloves on, the fireball could make it double as a flare gun, and it is very loud. (Parenthetically, the two guys on In Range TV mentioned they had an acquaintance that accidently shot a 3" shell from one of these and it resulted in a bleeding forehead and a knocked out tooth. Doesn't sound like fun.)
But the Serbu isn't a serious gun and never was meant to be. Off the top of my head, other than that one of course, a few unpleasant incidents:
- An H&R single-shot in 10-gauge (3½") was not fun to shoot. Oh, I was a big fan of the big 10, and enjoyed the Ithaca Mag-10 for years, as well as a couple doubles. But that single, not happening again.
- A POS NIB Jennings my father had. It was the only handgun that, while using factory loads for said, literally, went to pieces in my hand. I wasn't harmed, but the gun was a goner.
- The model escapes me, but one of my brothers had a very lightweight bolt-action in 7㎜ Remington Magnum that I hunted with on one bleak, cold, miserable winter day in my adolescence. The combination of the cartridge, the light gun, and a very underweight fellow resulted in a sore shoulder I still recall to this day.