My hunting buddy and I both recently switched over to BH209. We'd both been using T7 2F for years and independently sited our rifles in with BH209 this year before our javelina hunt. My buddy has a CVA Wolf (a very light weight gun) with an old Redfield scope (probably 3" of eye relief). He told me that he got scope eyed at least once, and he was only using 100 gr. with a 300 gr. bullet. Sure, his rifle with that scope is just begging for that to happen, but he'd never had it happen with up to 110 gr. of T7. He said he was getting recoil shy after just a few shots. After our hunt, he let his 30 year old son shoot off the rife, and he got scope eyed, too!

I shot 108 gr. BH209 and had been shooting 108 gr. T7 2F--both with a 300 gr. bullet. Luckily, I have a rather heavy old CVA Optima Pro with a Nikon 2-7 shotgun scope with 3.8" of eye relief. Probably weighs 9 pounds all together . Well, shooting seated at my portable table, my shoulder felt like it was almost separated after about 14 shots and was sore for days afterward. With T7, it was always like a shove, but with BH209, it was a very sharp hammer. For the javelina hunt, I used a 250 gr. bullet and backed it down to 100 gr. BH209, which was very easy shooting.

Doesn't anyone else experience increased recoil when switching to BH209? I've never seen anyone post anything like that. In fact, I saw where BH209 was actually touted by the manufacturer as possibly REDUCING felt recoil!