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<blockquote data-quote="Tac-O" data-source="post: 1847800" data-attributes="member: 109994"><p>I almost never shoot more than 20 rounds in a day and I've never had bruising and haven't had soreness from it since the first couple weeks I started shooting it. BUT, I do sometimes have a bad headache by the time I'm done. So, it does kick the crap out of me but it doesn't bother me at all and I'm pretty sure I don't have a BAD flinch, but I can't say I don't have one at all. Lots of times my first 5 shots are much better than the rest. On my last target with the staball powder, all of my 1st and 2nd shots for each load (with exception of the 60.5gr load) were pretty close together. My third shot for almost all of them was complete crap. I thought they were executed well, but I may have just flinched on them. On my 4th shot for all of them, I concentrated much harder to try to bring it back together. I should add that I weigh 150-155lbs.</p><p></p><p>I actually did just get a 7mm-08 for my wife and step kids. It's their first year as legal hunters!! My kids are really excited. One of them somehow went from not wanting to eat the fish we would catch and crying over any dead animal to wanting to make homemade rabbit skin hats and wanting to coyote hunt just for the fur. Anyway, it's a savage axis II in stainless. My wife and I broke it in together, using Hornady reduced recoil loads. Her last 3 shot group from that box of 20, without cleaning between, was about 0.75". Not bad for her first time. I reloaded those cases with speer 130gr spbt and h4895 at 35.2gr based off of a hodgdon reduced loads chart. My kids and wife primarily shot those last weekend and I shot just 2 shots. It was hard to tell how accurate that load was for the gun the way we were set up for shooting, but I'm pretty sure it's at least better than 1". I reloaded those cases again, with the same bullet but this time doing incremental loads. I'm going to have my wife shoot those this weekend and see how she does. I think she might be a better shot than I. So yes, I'll at some point very soon work on getting an accurate hunting load for that figured out and hopefully that will help me figure out how good/bad a shot I am! I'm also going to make up a couple of dummy loads for her to give me this weekend when we go to see if I'm flinching at all.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tac-O, post: 1847800, member: 109994"] I almost never shoot more than 20 rounds in a day and I've never had bruising and haven't had soreness from it since the first couple weeks I started shooting it. BUT, I do sometimes have a bad headache by the time I'm done. So, it does kick the crap out of me but it doesn't bother me at all and I'm pretty sure I don't have a BAD flinch, but I can't say I don't have one at all. Lots of times my first 5 shots are much better than the rest. On my last target with the staball powder, all of my 1st and 2nd shots for each load (with exception of the 60.5gr load) were pretty close together. My third shot for almost all of them was complete crap. I thought they were executed well, but I may have just flinched on them. On my 4th shot for all of them, I concentrated much harder to try to bring it back together. I should add that I weigh 150-155lbs. I actually did just get a 7mm-08 for my wife and step kids. It's their first year as legal hunters!! My kids are really excited. One of them somehow went from not wanting to eat the fish we would catch and crying over any dead animal to wanting to make homemade rabbit skin hats and wanting to coyote hunt just for the fur. Anyway, it's a savage axis II in stainless. My wife and I broke it in together, using Hornady reduced recoil loads. Her last 3 shot group from that box of 20, without cleaning between, was about 0.75". Not bad for her first time. I reloaded those cases with speer 130gr spbt and h4895 at 35.2gr based off of a hodgdon reduced loads chart. My kids and wife primarily shot those last weekend and I shot just 2 shots. It was hard to tell how accurate that load was for the gun the way we were set up for shooting, but I'm pretty sure it's at least better than 1". I reloaded those cases again, with the same bullet but this time doing incremental loads. I'm going to have my wife shoot those this weekend and see how she does. I think she might be a better shot than I. So yes, I'll at some point very soon work on getting an accurate hunting load for that figured out and hopefully that will help me figure out how good/bad a shot I am! I'm also going to make up a couple of dummy loads for her to give me this weekend when we go to see if I'm flinching at all. [/QUOTE]
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