Reducing Recoil Advice Needed
07-10-2014, 02:50 PM
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Spike
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Reducing Recoil Advice Needed
Today I shot a full box of Winchester XPert HV Steel shells at 1550 fps to break in my new semi-auto. The gun is a 12 ga., 6.8 lbs., 26" barrel. The load is 3", 1 1/8 oz., #2s. I've never had a problem with recoil and I didn't necessarily mind this hitting POI dead on each time. The issue is I could barely hold on to the gun. I'm new to waterfowling this year. Has anyone else had this happen? Are there any INEXPENSIVE ways to reduce felt recoil? I was thinking a ported choke maybe and/or lighter loads? I normally shoot 12 gauge shotguns, a 30-06 with no issues. Any advice would be greatly appreciated, thanks!!
07-11-2014, 04:52 AM
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Today I shot a full box of Winchester XPert HV Steel shells at 1550 fps to break in my new semi-auto. The gun is a 12 ga., 6.8 lbs., 26" barrel. The load is 3", 1 1/8 oz., #2s. I've never had a problem with recoil and I didn't necessarily mind this hitting POI dead on each time. The issue is I could barely hold on to the gun. I'm new to waterfowling this year. Has anyone else had this happen? Are there any INEXPENSIVE ways to reduce felt recoil? I was thinking a ported choke maybe and/or lighter loads? I normally shoot 12 gauge shotguns, a 30-06 with no issues. Any advice would be greatly appreciated, thanks!!
Take you gun to a gunsmith, and have the forcing cone cut down.
It will reduce felt recoil, and tighten the shot pattern.
07-13-2014, 03:34 AM
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Nontypical Buck
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And if you want to take it one more step over what RR and jrbsr said, its a tad bit of change, but worth its weight in gold. Get the barrel ported. Will last the life of the gun, never wear out and never get changed out. Have it on both of my waterfowl/turkey guns and both trap guns. Very much worth the $150 getting it done. I even had my wifes 11-87 Premier 20ga trap/skeet gun done. She loves it.
