perceived recoil

[biscuit jake]

All things being equal (same foot pounds of energy) do you think faster bullets recoil sharper than slower ones? Your thoughts?

(Biscuit notes: nothing I have EVER fired kicked more than my late daddy's Rem Model 11!)

[frizzellr]

Actually recoil itself has a velocity. That is why some recoil feels sharper and some feels more like a push. If you can find the Point Blank software on the web somewhere it will show you in the reoil calculations.

[whiskeysnoot]

Yes. I compare the recoil from a .300 RUM to a .458 Win. Mag. as the difference in having a thrown baseball hit you in the head and a bowling ball dropped on it. Both hurt, just different.

[WisHunt]

Whiskey, I like that,

if all things are equal, hmmm so if I'm shooting my 300 win mag and I use a fast light bullet vs a slow heavy bullet which one will hurt more?

I acctually think that the slow one "hurts" more than the fast one. Here is my only reference

My brother and I were shooting his 7mm and I picked up some speedy 139gr loads while he was shooting 175gr loads. Not much difference but the proformance on them was nearly equal out of the pipe- We both noticed that the 139gr "felt" like it had less recoil. I guess it should have been the same but that's what we felt out of the same gun.

I couldn't tell you if one was "sharper", but the 175 seemed to whop my cheek and shoulder more than the light/fast round.

[James B]

I think it depends on why the bullet is faster or slower. A bullet can be faster because its lighter or because it has more propellent behind it. In my 30-06 there is more felt recoil with 180 grain bullets than with 130 grain bullets. I quess I don't know the word for the science involved. I can only tell what I can feel. In the same gun with factory loads there always seems to be more recoil with heavier bullets which would in this case also be slower. At least in the speed leaving the muzzle.

[kirkl]

I have a lite 270 and when shooting the 140 grains through it i can feel those after a few shots but i just went and shot some 100 grainers i had laying around and I could shoot those all day.