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A proper fitting stock, particularly in a light weight gun will do wonders at felt recoil reduction. Even if all you do is cut for your length of pull and have recoil pad fit.

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Yup. Agreed. Adjusting LoP for the shooter is probably the best thing you can do for yourself.

Stock fit is VERY important with heavy recoil rifles.... As an example, the Weatherby big bores are not necessarily all that much heavier in the recoil department than other big bores but they come back "fast", with very high recoil speed which I think is worse than heavier but slower recoil. The Weatherby stock shape does much to help the shooter but they really missed the boat with the upright pistol grip. Makes for a lovely fast second finger / knuckle smash against the trigger guard. Blasers are bad for that too.....

Back to the 375 H&H..... a rather pleasant mid bore cartridge from a recoil perspective..... in an 8 & 1/2 pound rifle with good stock design.

In any event, maybe, just maybe the cartridge is too much for the shooter if he/she needs to run a brake while hunting....H&H, Weatherby, or otherwise.

A really cool trick is to shoot at the range double plugged with a brake, and remove it and install a thread protector for hunting - assuming POI changes are accounted for. Well, maybe this isn't such a good idea if you don't have a long eye relief scope......

Unless you're shooting a LOT of rounds culling, I bet the hunt will be over and the game in the salt before you realize that your unbraked rifle abused your shoulder a bit.

Edited by Postman (20/08/17 06:45 AM)

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