Perhaps it is time we stop whining about recoil! Fix it!
Honestly, the fastest and least expensive way to reduce felt recoil from big game rifles is to install a slip-on or grind-to-fit recoil pad that was scientifically designed to reduce that instant whack to your shoulder. Yes you can use a heavier rifle. Not me. Or a thread on device to your barrel, sure to give you an ear-ache. I’ll pass.
I have used both Limbsaver™ and Pachmayr Decelerator™ pads for the past 20 years to my great relief. I owned a heavy recoiling Ruger M77 in.338 Winchester Magnum and still own and use my M77 African in .375 Ruger. One was fitted with a Limbsaver SVL Pad and the other was fitted with a Pachmayr Decelerator. Both cut my felt recoil by approximately 50% or so. Below is a video from Limbsaver.
I shoot these big guns off-hand in my t-shirt because the recoil is more of a push than a whack, thus making it easy for the shooter to absorb the recoil almost painlessly.
Even more, you can reduce felt recoil on your young son or daughters deer rifle too. A 6.5 Creedmoor/260 Rem shooting a 120 grain bullet at 3000 ft/ sec creating about 14 ft/lbs but with a state-of-the-art pad the felt recoil is nearer to 7 lbs of felt recoil, less than a .243 Winchester. Below is from the website; https://shooterscalculator.com/recoil-calculator.php
Time to fix that rifle recoil is now!
Good Shooting!
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