Hard3st kicks recordee free#

In my experience, if you are using a properly fitted gas gun of target weight with a light load, you’ve done just about everything practical to reduce recoil.

Hard3st kicks recordee free#

Perceived recoil (gun fit, gun mechanism) is more difficult to quantify than calculated free recoil, but they both play a part. Changes in the shell offer the biggest chance to change recoil. OK, at 2:1 that should be 40%, but you get the idea. Changing from a 1-1/4 ounce load down to a one ounce load, both at 1200 fps velocity, will reduce recoil in an 8 pound gun by 34%. If you change the amount of shot (payload) or velocity of the shell by 10%, you will affect free recoil by twice that, or 20%. Shells are different and have more effect. That is, if you increase the weight of a 7 pound gun by 10 % to 7.7 pounds, you will lower calculated free recoil by around 10%. Increasing the weight of the gun will reduce recoil on about a 1:1 basis (sort of). To lower mathematical free recoil you want to shoot the heaviest gun you can and the lightest load. While mathematical free recoil isn’t the same as perceived recoil, it is important. Many people feel that they kick just as much as a fixed breech gun. Some semiautomatic shotguns, like the Benellis, are recoil operated, not gas operated. Beretta 391s, Browning Golds and Remington 11-87s are popular soft recoiling gas operated shotguns. It’s actually the same amount of recoil, but due to the longer period of time it feels more like a push than a punch. The cycling of the gas action breaks the recoil down into pieces and delivers it bit by bit, not all at once the way a fixed breech (pump, SxS or O/U) does. The gas guns seem to kick less because they deliver the recoil pulse over a longer period of time. That’s a question of more sophisticated gunfit and also of shooting style.Ģ) A second good way to lower perceived recoil is to select a gun with a kind of action that stretches out the recoil pulse. You also want a stock that doesn’t whack you in the chops or slap your face. Short stocks can build up a head of steam coming back and kick more. You want a stock that is as long as you can comfortably make it so that it seats firmly into the shoulder. There are two basic ways to lower perceived recoil.ġ) Gun fit- a stock that fits you properly will seem to kick less. It’s exactly the same calculated free recoil, but the perceived recoil sure is different! Now take exactly the same shotgun and shell and hold the butt against your nose when you pull the trigger.

Example: If you shoot a shotgun from your shoulder in the normal way, you will feel a certain amount of recoil. Perceived recoil is very different from calculated free recoil. Unfortunately, being human, mathematics aren’t all that there is to it.

The lighter the shot load of the shell, or the lower the velocity of the shell, the less it kicks. The heavier the shotgun is, the less it kicks.

The free recoil formula just takes into account the shell and the weight of the gun. Mathmatically, all shotguns kick the same if they weigh the same and shoot the same shell. I’ve gone over a lot of this before, but perhaps it is time to touch on it again and put it all into one package. Good question and one that many people have asked. Hi, I am buying a new 12 gauge and want to know what shotgun kicks the least?