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Recoil and aging
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<blockquote data-quote="Quintus" data-source="post: 2973092" data-attributes="member: 67552"><p>What are you mainly hunting with this gun? Heavy payload shells like ounce and a half and up are going to kick hard out of any gun. There is no free lunch. If you want that 1 3/4 kind of payload your going to have accept the recoil. Some guns are a little better (heavier and or gas operated), but managing gas only goes so far and even the heavy guns are only so heavy and the A400 is no featherweight. Ammo makers have done a good job of convincing us we NEED giant payloads and or crazy velocities from our shotshells. What we really NEED is a consistent dense pattern, an understanding of effective range of our pattern and shot material (and the constraint to stay within that range), and enough practice to acquire the skill to put that pattern on the bird. An ounce and quarter upland load properly choked and placed will make old Tom just as dead to 40 yards as 2 1/4oz loads with a turkey on the box. And that's at half the cost and substantially less recoil.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Quintus, post: 2973092, member: 67552"] What are you mainly hunting with this gun? Heavy payload shells like ounce and a half and up are going to kick hard out of any gun. There is no free lunch. If you want that 1 3/4 kind of payload your going to have accept the recoil. Some guns are a little better (heavier and or gas operated), but managing gas only goes so far and even the heavy guns are only so heavy and the A400 is no featherweight. Ammo makers have done a good job of convincing us we NEED giant payloads and or crazy velocities from our shotshells. What we really NEED is a consistent dense pattern, an understanding of effective range of our pattern and shot material (and the constraint to stay within that range), and enough practice to acquire the skill to put that pattern on the bird. An ounce and quarter upland load properly choked and placed will make old Tom just as dead to 40 yards as 2 1/4oz loads with a turkey on the box. And that's at half the cost and substantially less recoil. [/QUOTE]
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