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If, as so many people claim, the muzzle velocities of 150-grain bullets are near equal for the .308 and '06, how can the recoils be very much different?
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My .308 Winchester Model 70 (150 grain) kicked the hell out of me also, as did a couple of 30-06s (150-155 grain) I owned. I don't know where you guys get this "light recoiling stuff." In other words, they aren't different.
If it is a matter of some of us being more sensitive to recoil than others, that may be true...but it is a physical thing, not psychological. I had a Browning BT-99 trap gun that had a weighted buttstock, a recoil pad, a long barrel, and a integral muzzle break...things that were all intended to reduce felt recoil. If I fired four rounds of trap (25 x 4 = 100 rounds), I would end up with a painful dull ache in my right shoulder that would last until the next day...that was
NOT psychological...that was a
physical ache.