As these guys are telling you.. if you go shooting large chunks of lead with large powder charges, you better be ready to get knocked around. I used to shoot 426 grain Buffalo Bullet Conicals out of my Renegade with 90 grains or less and they were stiff but not something I could not shoot.

I shoot 405 grain PowerBelts with 80 grains of powder in my Lyman Trade Rifle and again, accuracy is exceptional and the recoil is not all that bad. But you need to understand these big chunks of lead do not have to be pushed all that hard to make them work. You try pushing 500+ grains of conical with 100 grains or more, you better not be recoil sensative. You really do not need to push the conical bullet all that hard.

This is a picture of one of my BUSTED STEEL PLATES from my bullet trap yesterday. [:@] I was shooting 500 grain NEI Bull Shop Concicals with 70 grains of Triple Se7en 3f under them. Now granted this plate has been pounded hundred and hundreds of times in or near the same place. But this steel in places runs 1/2 to 3/4 inch in thickness. I was shooting at 100 yards. So when you start to think of penetration by a conical.. how hard is an elks shoulder blade compared to 3/4 inch steel plate? Do you think that conical would poke a hole in a deer?

You can see the conical bullet laying there by the plate. Flat as a pan cake but it would have sure done a number on something it hit.