http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIQ62xkjaHw

Please watch that video in HD and tell me if the rifle on the left has less or more recoil than the rifle on the right.

I can most definitely feel a difference, but I think when viewing the recoil the difference is minute.

Super close, but if i had to, I'd say the left has more.

Very noticable. Right side has more recoil.

Look at the head as "sprung weight." The rifle itself isn't going to move considerably more but the impulse is going to jerk the noggin.


It looks like the left rifle has a brake which would account for the recoil reduction assuming they're both the same chambering.

hard to tell as both are shot with bad form. also rifle setup on left is a heavier setup.

Please explain.

Agreed on all fronts. On the left, he's absorbing most of the recoil with his right hand. On the right, he's absorbing it in the right shoulder. The fact that he can do this without drastic differences indicates that the left firearm has less recoil.

where is the vote for "neither has any real recoil"?

:P

shoulder not rolled into buttstock, weight on weak or off leg, not utilizing the sling for 3 point set, head up and not locked to stock..... I'd suggest the shooter spend some of that cash on a copy of Marine Corps manual for basic rifle marksmenship

lol, ironic. Thanks for the tips, though.

yeah, dude could have at least done a hasty sling

M1907 leather slings FTW

Both rifles have VTAC 2 point slings, one padded one not.

I admit I got lazy, but this is a casual demonstration. The competition rifle primarily wont' be used with a sling because during most competitions it could potentially be unsafe and may cause lost time if used for support, especially being I haven't practiced that way.

padded slings are merely carry straps

its easy and fast to do hasty sling . . . heck, carrying a rifle muzzle down on the off shoulder means - if you practice it - you can present the weapon in hasty sling

but then AR clones dun have recoil to begin with

:lol:

Bored, we get it. You have a .375 H&H. You're a man's man. You've got big nuts. 10-4. Clear copy. Aye, aye. Roger, over and out.

Do you have to bring it up at every opportunity? :lol:


Though since we're on the subject, I can shoot match .223 for a little more than 38 cents a pop. Two bits for the bullet, 12 cents' worth of powder, a primer and all the free brass you can carry home from the range. If I wasn't dropping coin on expensive 77gr. bullets, I could probably get the per-round cost well below a quarter.

A quick internet search tells me that the cheapest you can get .375 H&H ammunition is around four bucks for each round. Empty brass is two dollars each! And I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that there's no place for you to go get free brass either.


Not that the big boom isn't cool... but I sure can't justify the cost.

I've got rifles that recoil and I have already shot them this month.

It looks like a sniper is ambushing your kill.

Archerec, nice rack. What state did you hunt in?

Nice, Arch. But I subscribe more to the "Sit on the back porch, drink beer, and wait for the deer to kill itself" Hunting Method.

Texas, in Cottle county.

That is funny but sitting on the back porch is close enough. At the back porch of the place we were staying I could see this guy chasing a doe around back there about 700 yards off. I am not confident on the use of my scope that far out so I decided to to go look for him. With the wind in my face I about stepped on him and got a 15 yard shot.

nice...

well actually I hadn't . . . I was pointing out that AR's in .223 don't really have 'recoil' . . . not in the sense of the vast history of military small arms

but now that you have brought it up things that make bigger booms, I will state that the 'recoil' of an AR in .223 in no way compares to the recoil from say a Mosin 91/30 or M44 . . . or any British Enfield turnbolt . . . or even say a relatively soft shooting M96 Swedish mauser. I don't need to bring civilian sporting arms into the discussion

:P