12 gauge 2 ounce turkey load out of a Stevens 311 with a steel butt plate.

My Rem. 870 12 ga. with it's cut down stock shooting the barnes expander slugs. (1,900 fps) It seriously takes the fun out of shooting.

Shooting slugs out of my little H&R topper was pretty bad too.

I had the pleasure of shooting 20 rounds out of a Barrett M82 .50 BMG. As bad as that gun kicked it couldn't come close to my Remington 870 with 2 ounce turkey loads. They actually eject themselves a good five or six feet from the gun, and my right cheek always hurts way worse than my shoulder.

Bingo! That's what prompted me to start this thread.

The stock on my 870 has tooth marks on it. My forehead has had 870 scope marks on it too.

I took a 375 h&h on a rock chuck hunt once. It was an older model 70 shooting 300 gr partitions. Ran a box of 20 through it that day. At the end of that day it hurt to shoot my 243.

Rem 11-48 shooting anything high brass with a steel buttplate.

I swear my Ithaca shotgun shooting slugs, was worse than the elephant rifle, I was then shooting.

Still remember the look a an older shooter next to me at the range.

I was shooting the Ithaca with the slugs and was getting a weird look. The older fella was shooting a .222 with a shot shell bag full of sand, protecting his shoulder.

the .375 H&H was pretty rough but not as bad as the 12 gauge shotguns loaded with slugs that I've benchrested.

My uncle was in a pawn shop and a customer walked in with a .378 Weatherby and his shoulder in a sling. Apparently separated his shoulder with it.

Uncle bought it for $200. This was 15 years ago. He's only shot the rifle once.

Tom