am i just a wuss???
 

my shoulder feels like hamburger...i shot the muzzy 6 times and the 300WSM 16 times...some shot gunnin and the 22, arm hurts like all hell....am i just outta practice?

Sounds like a nice warm-up! :D :D

thats exactly what i was tellin me on the way home..shoulder is perty dang tender on the shoulder bone. ill take a side of cries with that ... we havnt done much shootin this season, o well..headed back in 4 days
btw i think the muzzy kicked harder than the sm

You Texas folk just don't wear enough clothing this time of year! I can't hardly get a good scope picture the amount of cloths I was wearing today up hear in PA. That's alot of shootin' though. Even 100 grains outta my muzzy kicks like a mule, then throw in the 300 yet and you took some recoil. I like to shoot sporting clays every now and then and let me tell ya, after 100 rounds of 12ga. outta my 1100 I've had enough for the day myself.

keep shooting and your shoulder will get used to it. I get sore as well early in the season when I haven't shot much, but after a while it doesn't bother me. It sounds like a lot of shootin' for not having shot much...I would be sore also.

Maybe?
 

Sounds like your shooting postion was to low and you were holding the guns on the top of the shoulder instead of the front(arm pit area) Which also tends to make you lean into the gun instead of sitting up staight like you should. This will make felt recoil 2-3 as much because the top of shoulder is solid and doesn't flex like the front (arm pit area) does. :confused0024::confused0024:
my 2 cents?

Kinda what I was thinking catch my self sometimes when one shot let's me know it's there more so than the others.

Probably not a wuss, probably poor fitting guns and more shooting than your accustomed to doing. As mentioned poor shooting position.
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Its been written that when it comes to recoil tolerance "size doesn't matter" often smaller framed persons can deal with it much better than larger persons.

Personally I am very tolerant of recoil and it rarely bothers me at all. I can sight in a half dozen big game rifles in an afternoon and not be bothered. I also shoot 40 rds. of 300 Win mag the same day.

Now my Benelli pump cracking off a box of 3.5" shells....thats a whole 'nother deal right there.

thx guys...i didnt think a case of shotty's would make me sore, I think it was more the 300 and the muzzy, but my buddy says he is sore too, and after a couple boxes of clays he said he was expecting it. its still sore today, but not as bad as yesterday...3 more days and ill be back at it again..maybe ill skip the clays this time.

Sounds like your just out of practice to me. The more you shoot it the more use to it you'll get.

Within any distance that I am able to hit a deer, my 30-30 will kill a deer just as dead as that 300 wsm, only without the sore shoulder or emptying my wallet. :D

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That's not off topic, it's just a polite way for one wuss to call another wuss, "a wuss". :poke:

Kinda doubt if it's the claybird thing.....I used to shoot 200-300 rounds at trap three times a week, and never felt sore..but that was when I was a lot younger. I'll bet it's the 300 & the muzzy more than anything.

its all good..i wasn't shooting just once, i thought i was spacing em out good, but i think it was those quadruple powder load shots at the end of the day that mighta did me in. i did enjoy watching my buddies safety glasses poppin up after each shot...he woulda had scope eye 6 times had he not had em on lol..i got a 30-06 as well, and a 22-250, 223, 30-30..but i needed my sm good to go and i really enjoy shootin it, takes a lil more than shootin the 30-06.

When I shoot off the bench, I wear one of these (in addition to having a good recoil pad on the stock itself):



PAST Recoil Shield. Shooting from the bench or from the prone is the worst as far a recoil goes, but this will help a lot. The problem with the "get used to it" school of thought is that by the time your shoulder stops getting sore you'll have developed a very bad and deeply ingrained flinch. Not good.

Mike