The recoil of the 470NE will be an eye opener, for sure!I'd say a 12 ga heavy slug load isn't a good comparison.

A heavy game rifle that weighs in at the 10-10.8 lbs pushing a 500 gr bullet at 2150 fps, is going to let you know when it goes off! It will not hurt you, if you shoot it right, but you need to stay away from shooting benches, and shoot from hunting positions. If I can shoot them you can shoot them. Don't think you are going to break something when you shoot it, but you wont have to ask the guy next to you if it went off!