Originally Posted by
streetglideok
This can hold true with about any centerfire rifle. It doesn't have to even be a magnum. With a good recoil pad, and some basic shooting skills, a flinch will not happen. My wife shoots both a 7mm Rem mag, and a 300 win mag, with no flinch. I shoot a 300RUM, 375H&H, and no flinch. The one gun I have that would be most likely to give someone a flinch, isn't even a magnum. A 45/70 lever gun, loaded to lever gun levels is one fierce kicking gun. So that old phrase about magnums is as much hype as saying a 308 is horribly inaccurate, but an '06 is magical.
Not true. Your two examples are hardly representative of the 40 million hunters in the US. I know at least 10 hunters who had to back to smaller calibers, because they started to develop a flinch from magnums.
Magnums aren't needed. If you can't kill with a 30-06. You're doing something wrong.