
Probably down to poor technique, and only wearing a t-shirt on my part, but I'm considering sticking a pad on the Zastava.
Any recommendations? Good idea or not? Removable or fixed? Or padded jacket instead of the t-shirt?
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Ah, there could be a chance that the whole butt isn't contacting your shoulder? This coupled with not pulling the rifle into shoulder means you receive the full force in a smaller area = more bruising! I found this out the hard way when I did clays for the first time at 13 years of age, I wasn't pulling the shotgun all the way in and even so I was only getting hit by half the shotgun butt. Hell of a bruise that wasdaman wrote:Thanks All
I think I did the damage when zeroing off a low bench, not the normal way I'd shoulder the gun. I hadn't had any issues previously when shooting offhand or kneeling. In my army days (long ago!) I used to be able to fire a couple of hundred rounds of .303 without problems wearing a service dress jacket. Also I'd only been firing .22lr for the past few years and probably picked up some bad habits there too!
I think I'll look into getting a Past for heavy range days and maybe take a lesson to make sure my technique gets back on par.
its as likely to be technique and fit .30cal rifles don't NEED to recoil heavily, although some stock designs don't help at all, our club savage beats up most people who use it, whereas I have put 200+ rounds through my Howa .308 sporter in a day without any bruising (of course I may have an amount of natural paddingBrowning_grrl wrote:You're gonna hear a lot about 'technique' and cheek-meld and grip, and stuff and stuff... but, what a lotta folks WON'T tell ya is that 30-cal rifles kick. Some of 'em HARD. And, if ya fire a bunch of rounds, it HURTS. It does. So, by all means look into some protection for yourself. You can even have a much better pad fitted to your gun, depending on what it is and what's on it now. I agree about the Pasts, and would also mention the Browning Reactor system, which can use a harness-type arrangement, or, some Browning gear like vests & jackets come with a built-in pocket for them. I very seldom fire more than maybe 8 or 10 rounds out of my BLR, and that's only once a year just before hunting season, just to zero it, so its recoil doesn't get to be a issue. But if I used it as a Range gun, it sure as Hell would. The fact is that most hunters only fire 2 or 3 rounds in a whole season from a given gun, and always from a stone-cold barrel, so all that heavy range action doesn't help a bit. At the least, even when sighting, I need to wait a good 20 minutes between shots to come close to replicating real conditions for the accuracy of my gun. So, the recoil doesn't really figure. But, if I was gonna fire a 30-cal a lot, I would ABSOLUTELY be saving myself the hurt. So, get yourself whatever suits you best, but don't just try and ignore it. :) Have fun!! :)
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