Why you should hold the butt against your shoulder (was: Re: [SGVLUG] hp tech support! - take this!!!)

[Dustin Laurence]

On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 02:59:18PM -0700, Michael Proctor-Smith wrote:

> >Here is some footage of people firing more gun than they can handle:
> 
> So lesson here is to never fire a .577 T-Rex ever.

You needed a video to tell you that?  The name convinced me. :-)

That's generally the best advice whenever people start trying to one-up
each other with cartridges of ever increasing energy--they're idiots,
and you're an idiot if you play their shoulder-crunching game.  I always
suspect that five of every six guys with a big magnum would be a better
hunter with a much smaller cartridge that they could actually shoot
well.  There's a reason that the great cartridges have lasted unchanged
for a long time.

> ...But that video is
> an example of why the video that started all this was not a guy
> fireing a .50cal.

True, true, though don't the sniper rifles have a recoil-absorbing
barrel and muzzle brake to reduce the .50 recoil to tolerable levels?
I've seen video of someone firing a .50 and it was *nothing* like that.
It looked like something I could fire easily--quite possibly not well,
but not that much worse than the .45-70 I fired with somewhat hot loads.
It looked like the fancy gadgets on the .50 did a good job of making it
a sane experience, which make sense if you think about the fact that
even trained sharpshooters are better with sane recoil.

Dustin

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