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Honestly for me, the 45 colt is a pretty mild cartridge. But then again as you said, recoil is relative. Like for me, when I refer to a "stiff" recoil...I'm talking about a 454 casull (or larger). Most "commercial" target loads you will find (like at the local gun shop or wal-mart) are pretty much "cowboy" loads. I.E. 250gr Lead round nose bullets with a fairly light charge. I'd say recoil in terms of a 2.5 to 3lb. pistol with these aforementioned 45 LC loads, should be pretty comfortable to the average shooter...about the same muzzle rise as a .44 mag, but much less sharp. More like a full .357 out of an 8" barreled colt Python. Hope that helps, I don't know how else to explain it in words.
As goofy as this may sound, do a yahoo "video" search of "shooting a Uberti 45 colt" watching a video of some one shooting one will kinda give you an idea of the 45 long colt "kick".
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