okcmco

I also am rethinking my view on recoil. Although I am relatively young, I now have arthritis in both shoulders so My .300 win mag is no fun to shoot. But I won't feel it when I have a shoot at a hog or deer. However I feel that you should practice with the gun you use to hunt with. So that means 20-50 shots per session for at least 10 sessions before I hit the woods. That is alot of .300 win mag or even .308. I have alevieated some of this by using a similar .22 to my hunting rifle (IE Remington 504 abd model 700, CZ 452 and the CZ550). this way I can practice all I want and not break my shoulder or the bank. Then I can switch to the center fire a month before seer season.
Also I find that sighting in from the bench is mych more painful than offhand shooting.
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