ORIGINAL: bigbulls
12.5foot pounds for the 7mm-08 vs. about 19 for the 30-06 is 65%. could be more could be less. I was a touch high but was just guestimating in my head. [8D]
I guess I was going at the math from the wrong side of the equation. Looking at the numbers, I figured the 7mm-08 had roughly 2/3 the recoil of the .30-06, so the 06 was about 1/3 more... I understand the math, it just seems strange to say that the .30-06 has 65% more recoil than the 7mm-08, but the 7mm-08 has 35% less recoil than the .30-06...
Michael... Going through all that sarcasm regarding my post, followed by "God bless" to bigbulls seems just a tad incongruous...