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<blockquote data-quote="SBruce" data-source="post: 520980" data-attributes="member: 21068"><p>I believe harder recoiling rifles are just a little tougher to shoot well. They probably take more practice to get to shoot well also.</p><p> </p><p>Darrell Holland says that the bullet is still inside the barrel for the first few fractions of an inch of recoil. That being said, the recoil path needs to stay consistant for good groups. We don't want to be influencing the path differently from one shot to the next. </p><p> </p><p>I believe heavier rifles help with groups. Reasoning is that they don't begin to move as soon as light ones do, and they don't move as far as light ones do. Powder charge/bullet weight/velocity being equal of course.</p><p> </p><p>In one of David Tubbs' videos, he comments on shooting light weight heavy recoiling guns from the bench. He says that he believes that holding onto the gun, especially the forend, helps with getting good groups because it helps ensure the rifle is jumping/recoiling less that way. For a guy like him that shoots both hands on the rifle quite often, he probably is pretty sensitive about how he is holding the forend too.</p><p> </p><p>FWIW, the most amazing groups I've ever shot were basically free recoil, I wasn't influencing the recoil action at all, because the only part of the rifle I was touching at the shot was the trigger. These were 22 and 24 calibers that were 9-17 lbs weight though. This isn't possible with hard kickers obviously, so I guess the answer with hard kickers is to hold the gun, but hold it as consistant at possible.?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SBruce, post: 520980, member: 21068"] I believe harder recoiling rifles are just a little tougher to shoot well. They probably take more practice to get to shoot well also. Darrell Holland says that the bullet is still inside the barrel for the first few fractions of an inch of recoil. That being said, the recoil path needs to stay consistant for good groups. We don't want to be influencing the path differently from one shot to the next. I believe heavier rifles help with groups. Reasoning is that they don't begin to move as soon as light ones do, and they don't move as far as light ones do. Powder charge/bullet weight/velocity being equal of course. In one of David Tubbs' videos, he comments on shooting light weight heavy recoiling guns from the bench. He says that he believes that holding onto the gun, especially the forend, helps with getting good groups because it helps ensure the rifle is jumping/recoiling less that way. For a guy like him that shoots both hands on the rifle quite often, he probably is pretty sensitive about how he is holding the forend too. FWIW, the most amazing groups I've ever shot were basically free recoil, I wasn't influencing the recoil action at all, because the only part of the rifle I was touching at the shot was the trigger. These were 22 and 24 calibers that were 9-17 lbs weight though. This isn't possible with hard kickers obviously, so I guess the answer with hard kickers is to hold the gun, but hold it as consistant at possible.? [/QUOTE]
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