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<blockquote data-quote="duckklr" data-source="post: 2928144" data-attributes="member: 102065"><p>I don't know why but I don't feel the recoil in the field (although I sometimes know at the moment that I'm being pushed back) and I don't hear the shot (I'm now wearing very expensive hearing aids and this year started wearing sound attenuating ear muffs when I'm about to shoot game). I just returned from three weeks is South Africa with my friend and professional hunter Tom Dreyer where I used my .458 Win Mag to take a 45" Cape Buffalo and a 28 ½" Roan bull, and my 8mm Rem Mag on a large Eland and a 60 1/2" Kudo bull. No shoulder pain, no sharp rap (maybe no brain).</p><p> <strong>I use Limb Saver and Air Tech Limb Saver butt pads on all of my big bore rifles. I don't have any with recoil reducers on the barrels. The stocks are eBay cheapy Rem. injection molded hollow stocks just for Africa where they take a lot of punishment from brush and the truck.</strong></p><p> When I shoot these same rifles at the range for load development and final scope check prior to the hunt, I use a lead-sled with 4-25lb bags of bird shot or suffer after just a few rounds. I try to get to the range at least twice per month.</p><p> Last year I hunted with Tom for just over 5-weeks in both South Africa and Mozambique to harvest a Buffalo, Hippo, Leopard, Kudo, and multiples on Sable, Gemsbuck, Waterbuck, and Nyala plus a Golden Wildebeest, an Impala and a Wart Hog. I used both the .458 Win Mag and my CZ .375 H&H mag. Never wore hearing protection or shoulder protection and never felt any recoil.</p><p> Again, I've never worn hearing protection in the field until this year and paid a heavy price. I shoot 200-grain Nosler Partition's in my Rem 700 8mm Rem Mag, 300-grain Barnes, Hornady, and Swift A-frame's in the CZ .375, and 500-grain Swift A-frame's in my .458 Win Mag. along with a Rem 700 in 35 Whelen with 250-grain Hornady's.</p><p> I'll be at this years' SCI convention in Nashville at the end of Jan/beginning Feb with Tom Dreyer at his display at booth # 2707 if you want to come by and look at hunting photo albums and videos. Here is this year's harvest:</p><p></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]503384[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]503385[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]503387[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]503388[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]503389[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]503390[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="duckklr, post: 2928144, member: 102065"] I don't know why but I don't feel the recoil in the field (although I sometimes know at the moment that I'm being pushed back) and I don't hear the shot (I'm now wearing very expensive hearing aids and this year started wearing sound attenuating ear muffs when I'm about to shoot game). I just returned from three weeks is South Africa with my friend and professional hunter Tom Dreyer where I used my .458 Win Mag to take a 45" Cape Buffalo and a 28 ½" Roan bull, and my 8mm Rem Mag on a large Eland and a 60 1/2" Kudo bull. No shoulder pain, no sharp rap (maybe no brain). [B]I use Limb Saver and Air Tech Limb Saver butt pads on all of my big bore rifles. I don't have any with recoil reducers on the barrels. The stocks are eBay cheapy Rem. injection molded hollow stocks just for Africa where they take a lot of punishment from brush and the truck.[/B] When I shoot these same rifles at the range for load development and final scope check prior to the hunt, I use a lead-sled with 4-25lb bags of bird shot or suffer after just a few rounds. I try to get to the range at least twice per month. Last year I hunted with Tom for just over 5-weeks in both South Africa and Mozambique to harvest a Buffalo, Hippo, Leopard, Kudo, and multiples on Sable, Gemsbuck, Waterbuck, and Nyala plus a Golden Wildebeest, an Impala and a Wart Hog. I used both the .458 Win Mag and my CZ .375 H&H mag. Never wore hearing protection or shoulder protection and never felt any recoil. Again, I've never worn hearing protection in the field until this year and paid a heavy price. I shoot 200-grain Nosler Partition's in my Rem 700 8mm Rem Mag, 300-grain Barnes, Hornady, and Swift A-frame's in the CZ .375, and 500-grain Swift A-frame's in my .458 Win Mag. along with a Rem 700 in 35 Whelen with 250-grain Hornady's. I'll be at this years' SCI convention in Nashville at the end of Jan/beginning Feb with Tom Dreyer at his display at booth # 2707 if you want to come by and look at hunting photo albums and videos. Here is this year's harvest: [ATTACH type="full" alt="tempImageBcJkH0.png"]503384[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full" alt="tempImageE3C87V.png"]503385[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full" alt="tempImage6fe4Of.png"]503387[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full" alt="IMG_0498.jpeg"]503388[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full" alt="IMG_0459.jpeg"]503389[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full" alt="IMG_0520.jpeg"]503390[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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