Managed recoil

[bigbulls]

Has any one or anyones children been shooting any of the managed recoil loads from Remington?

I ask because My wife and daughter are probably gonna be getting new rifles for either their birthdays or Christmas.

My son has his 30-06 and is a big boy and handles the recoil just fine from full power factory loads but my daughter will be 11 and ofcourse is a bit more sensative to recoil than he is. My wife..... well she's just a sissy. (Just kidding honey.)

Any how, my thought was for them all to have 30-06's. This would simplify buying ammunition, allow them to shoot more with the reduced loads and being a 30-06 would be more than enough gun to go after elk when they get up to it.

I am quite confident that with the reduced loads the recoil would be more than manageable for my daughter I am just wondering how they tend to shoot and group.



Thanks.

[renfrowridge]

anyones childred? with a statment like that I should not even answer this I use managed recoil loads because of 5 neck and back surury from a broke back. yes they work fine I kill 3 deer with them last year 1 was at 350 yards but maybe you should wait till someone anwser that there kids uses them!!!!

[bigbulls]

I misspelled it[8D] but I asked for anyone or anyoned children. Since they are mostly marketed toward women and children.

I am asking about them mainly for my daughter who just happens to be my child so a childs input or parent of a childs input would be realevent here I would think.


Did these back surgeries make you this bitter or does it just come naturally. I'm just asking for information from anyone that has used them. Even grumpy old farts.

[DannyD]

I shoot a 270 . I bought the Remington managed recoil rounds so my 12 year old daughter (82 lbs) could use the gun. She has killed a doe with a 30-30 but does not like the recoil. Not that it hurts her she just does not like to practice with it.
When we tried the managed recoil rounds in the 270 we both agreed that it felt less than the 30-30. Both guns have a slip on limsaver recoil pad now and she is fine with shooting both.
Overall we still both think the recoil on the 270 with the managed rounds is less. If I had to estimate it would be 25% less.
As far as accuracy i found that after shooting regular Remington factory loads then switching to the managed recoil rounds the groups move about 1/2 low and 1 inch right.
Basically my daughter now has 2 guns instead of one with no extra cost

[DannyD]

just to clarify...
we think the recoil of the 270 managed rounds are 25% less than that of the 30-30.
The reduction from the original 270 round id more like 50-60%

[Roskoe]

I thought the reduced recoil .270 loads were maybe less of a kicker than a .243 with a 100 grain load, FWIW.

[DannyD]

They may be less than that of a 243. I've never shot a 243 though. When I look at recoil tables of the 30-30 and the 243, 25% less than the 30-30 is right at about where a 243 is.

A buddy of mine shot the 270 managed recoil rounds from my gun and compared it to his daughters 243 youth handirifle. He says the 270 kicked less with the managed rounds than his daughters 243. However the youth gun is so light that he though the comparison may have been skewed

[xd9x19]

bigbulls, I have the same issue with my daughter. When we started hunting a few years ago, we bought Rem 870s as our do-it-all gun. Well, I've since gotten a .30-06 and my daughter shot a round or two late last hunting season. She wants to trade in her 870 for a .30-06 now!!! She really did not like the recoil from shooting slugs from her 870, even with a rather thick PAST recoil pad.

Heck, I may even use the Managed Recoil loads for my ammo. We set up our stand in some woods and I've killed 4 deer over the last 3 years and they were all within 60 yards, so I'm thinking why not just use the Managed Recoil loads?

I think your daughter will be just fine with these loads.

[Hunter06FlKy]

i don't know anything about the managed recoil rounds but i killed a deer with the regular 125's and it didn't have much recoil in my opinion.

[Gundigest]

You are better off going with a caliber that is smaller and kicks less so they don't get gun shy. I would say look at the .260 it is an excellent medium sized game gun with very little recoil. My friend has one in a Ruger 77 Mk II. That gun is a tack driver. I would even shoot an elk with it. If you reload Barnes has a 130gr Tripple shock X bullet that would be awesome. I loaded up some 129gr Hornady SSTs for my friend this winter so this fall we will see how they do. They are at about 2900 fps which is only a tiny bit slower than the .270 with less recoil.