[Southpaw]

Originally Posted by Ken Hill

Mr. Houde,

You may find these two links helpful. The first tab provides rifle recoil numbers. The second tab provides a comparison with shotgun loads.

https://www.chuckhawks.com/recoil_table.htm

https://chuckhawks.com/compared_rifl...un_recoil.html

I'm glad I stick to 1oz loads.

Ken

Thanks for posting the charts. I was talking a little about this in a post a few months ago. That shotgun to rifle comparison table is great. Mostly what I was discussing is which is worse recoil a 12 gauge BPS with 3.5 inch shells or a 10 gauge with 3.5 inch shells. The chart makes no reference to 12 Ga. 3.5 inch shell but I think recoil energy is pretty close if not higher than the 10 ga, probably due to mostly gun weight difference and some other factors for each.

All I know is that when trying to pattern 3.5 inch turkey loads, it was a whoopin and your chart demonstrates that beautifully with some numbers. I was guessing then that potentially loads I was using in a pump were maybe producing close to 65 lbs of energy and your getting all of it.

Anyway good stuff and thanks again for sharing that info. It looks like the .375 is comparable to 12 gauge using 3 inch shells. That should not be to awful.