You're right- lots of shooting with something light, throw in some heavies, then back to shooting something that doens't hurt. I've found group shooting the .17 centrefire good for "between the .458's" to show me I need more work on the bigger ones. If you don't see the hole appear in the paper or the gopher flip, you KNOW you closed your eye.
; Good normal ballistics, btw, JPK - I can't understand why there are some still people today who think it takes a .458 LOTT to do that.
; I know where you're coming from, shooting game with heavy rifles and not feeling it - can't see the game because the rifle's barrel and stock is in the way climbing though, but feel the recoil, quite frankly, no.
: Trouble is, there are people who can afford to hunt in Africa, so do, who can't handle a rifle that's capable - even the mild recoiling .375H&H is WAYYYYYYY too much. The game suffers and charges result.