This is all good stuff guy's, keep it coming!
Your all on the right track about recoil and getting the tar thumped out of you shooting this many rounds in a short time.
Here's what I found out through experience last year. "It's all about gun fit when it comes to recoil". The Rizzini I shot last year is a straight stocked double trigger that tops the scales @ 6lb 1oz. When I first got it and started shooting it getting ready for the trip it did have some kick, but more than anything it slapped my cheek hard to the point of only after a hundred rounds I would have a rosy, sore cheek. I experimented with two different types of recoil pads and changed the LOP with different pad thicknesses, but I still had the cheek slap. Then I decided to alter the pitch. I cut some thin wedge slices of walnut & placed them under the pad. What I found was by lengthening the heel a 1/4" the cheek slap went away and I really liked shooting the gun from then on.
When in Argentina I wore a Past strap-on pad & with the gun wearing a decelerator 1" pad. I was able to shoot 5000 rounds in four days without a mark to my cheek or shoulder. The only thing that got sore was my right index and middle finger from opening the gun and pulling the triggers, even this went away after the first day.
So now I'm wanting to do the same experimenting with the repro. to get it ready to go this June. The only difference will be the skeleton butt which I refuse to cut off for a pad, but I have some ideas to work around that problem as well.
I learned some other things as well and will share them in a follow-up post later.
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