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The key, as others have said, is to have a well-built rifle--straightish buttstock, enough weight for caliber (or even a bit heavy for caliber), a heavy contoured barrel, a good, at least 1" thick recoil pad, one or two mercury tubes in the buttstock--and use a firm grip on it. Maybe because all of my rifles fit that description, I am not sensitive to recoil. I shoot rifles up to a .500 A2 with over 100 ft.-lbs. of recoil energy without discomfort. The recoil just doesn't bother me. With a poorly built rifle, I'm sure I'd feel differently, but thankfully I won't have to find out because I won't use a poorly built rifle. Also I believe about recoil as Yogi Berra believed about hitting a baseball. "90% of recoil is half mental." ![]() Now, to answer your question, I would think that as long as you can put a magazine full in the black at the target range, on demand, at the likely distance at which you will be shooting in the field, from field positions, and without waiting too long between shots, you should be more than good to go. |