Taming Heavy Recoiling Firearms?

[Tlock]

Im gonna strip this 57 down and have it cerakoted pink for my wife....put a red dot on it and plastic grips with skate board tape!

 

[64MercurysRule]

Weare's ya goin two putt da flasslite......

 

[Tlock]

Weare's ya goin two putt da flasslite......

Jb weld!!!!

 

[1775usmc]

View attachment 2134646

Im gonna strip this 57 down and have it cerakoted pink for my wife....put a red dot on it and plastic grips with skate board tape!

Hokey tape is all the rage nowadays.

 

[Tlock]

Hokey tape is all the rage nowadays.

Can you stipple wood?

 

[64MercurysRule]

View attachment 2134646

Im gonna strip this 57 down and have it cerakoted pink for my wife....put a red dot on it and plastic grips with skate board tape!

 

[Tlock]

Ok ok I cant joke about it anymore......that was to far. Making my stomach hurt

 

[64MercurysRule]

This will help with recoil ..........

 

[Tlock]

I responded to the Deepwater horizon oil spill in 2010 rescuing wildlife. They gave us a 308 net gun that weighed a metric f ton. No one wanted to test fire it so I volunteered....that was a mistake! I shouldered it like a hunting rifle and touched it off! I seen old tweet tweet for a good bit, of course I played it off like it wasn't that bad. It was bad. Come to find out it was not designed to be shoulder fired. Worst recoil ive ever felt!

 

[1775usmc]

Can you stipple wood?

I have a drill and a dremel and a big dream….

 

[64MercurysRule]

Stippling ........

A small tutorial for those inter

 

[bcp]

Start with a bag of shot. Take out just enough so it will drape over the barrel or barrel/forend like saddlebags. Reseal the bag GOOD! It won't interfere with your sight picture, or put a concentrated load on any one part of the rifle. If it works, make a duplicate using sturdy fabric or leather.

It almost eliminates muzzle rise (the kick in the jaw part of recoil) and reduces the straight-back recoil.

Bruce

 

[Olderguy]

!00 rounds is a lot of rounds from a benchrest at one time, no wonder you want a lead sled type rest.

 

[orygun]

@BMGMAN inspired this idea.

Before adding filler to the forearm of my stock, I am going to bubba-ize it with a mounting point for some weight plates.

Here is the plan. I am going to drill a hole through the forearm of the stock. I will run a 5/8" diameter bolt through the hole and secure it with two or three nuts on the bottom exterior side of forearm. I will use a bolt around 3" in length. That will provide enough space to add two 5lb plates.

The plates will slide over the securing nuts. To secure the plates to the bolt, during shooting session I will use a heavy washer and nut.

Three potential downsides are:

1. The weight of the plates pulling down on the stock and causing interference with barrel to stock fit?

2. I will have to remove some internal ribbing on the forearm to make room for 5/8 bolt.

3. People at the range may point, laugh and say, "Buy a smaller gun, loser"

I will be making a trip to the hardware store today and hopefully find the right hardware for cheap.

The head of the bolt will need some massaging on the bench grinder to fit tight in forearm cavity. It may be next week before I can prove this idea out.

If it works, I should be able to add anywhere between 3 to 10+ pounds to the rifle.

I may also be able to use the 5/8 bolt as an anchor point for bipod preloading experiments.


View attachment 2134089


5/8 bolt would go in cavity marked with X.


View attachment 2134090

I'll bet you're eventually going to rip that stock in two.
I sure could be wrong, but there's nothin in that forearm that is designed to handle recoil.

 

[Tlock]

I'll bet you're eventually going to rip that stock in two.
I sure could be wrong, but there's nothin in that forearm that is designed to handle recoil.

But hey! It was at least cheap!

 

[Spitpatch]

!00 rounds is a lot of rounds from a benchrest at one time, no wonder you want a lead sled type rest.

This is similar to my unhappy discovery when I decided I'd take my trusty .270 into a Prairie Dog town with a day's worth of ammo because I didn't want to lug a fat-barreled varminter.

My cupcake-kicking big game gun became The Punisher.

 

[arakboss]

I'll bet you're eventually going to rip that stock in two.
I sure could be wrong, but there's nothin in that forearm that is designed to handle recoil.

I do the dirty work so others don't have to.

 

[osprey]

This is similar to my unhappy discovery when I decided I'd take my trusty .270 into a Prairie Dog town with a day's worth of ammo because I didn't want to lug a fat-barreled varminter.

My cupcake-kicking big game gun became The Punisher.

My first experience with a prairie dog town in MT was with a 280 rem. I recall having so much fun, I ran dangerously low on ammo with a deer tag still to be filled. Luckily the recoil made me stop and re-assess my dwindling ammo supply.

 

[Xmark1]

My $.02

After reading six pages about recoil complaints, I feel some odd reason to chime in.
I have never been bothered by recoil. I have to assume I'm just lucky. I weigh about 190 pounds.
And at age 70, I'm not as strong as when I was young.

One of my favorite shooters is my Remington 700 - 5R - Gen2 - 300WM. I have been known to blow through 150 rounds in a session with no ill effects. I usually handload 220 grain NCC's because I like the high BC. Bergers are better but I'm not rich .

I shoot 300 grains out of my Christianson Longe Range Mesa 338LM. With the factory brake, I don't really notice the recoil.

My hunting rifle is a custom lightweight 30-06 with no brake. I can shoot it all day long. No problem.

I did shoot a 300 Weatherby Magnum a couple of times. A hunting rifle with No brake and a steel but plate. That was not pleasant.

The second picture is a Remington 700 - 223 with a Tupperware stock that I bedded & floated from front to rear (The full length of the action and fore stock). It started as a 4 MOA rifle. After bedding & load development I was shooting 1/2 MOA, shooting coins @ 214 yards

 

[osprey]

I used to be like you, until I wasn't. I started developing a flinch from hard kicking beasts like 338 rum and 375 h&h and I deplored muzzle brakes. So, down the road the big boomers went. Nowadays, I shoot rifles chambered in more reasonable cartridges with my largest being 7mm magnums. Even at that I have moved to suppressors on my hunting rifles mostly to mitigate recoil. Be careful shooting the heavy hitters as a flinch is hard to untrain.