Velo Dog
AH legend
im late on this thread, but I love the video! I actually found your video on youtube before seeing this post.
velo dog, I never did understand how bruising on the shoulder from big guns works. I can fire an unlimited number of shots from a 375 H&H without so much as a red spot on my shoulder but after just 6 shots my dads shoulder was black and blue for a week. I proceeded to fire 25 shots in a row from my 416 with full house loads with no side effects at all... strangely my dad refused to shoot the 416. I bought my 505 Gibbs to find my limit for recoil.
-matt
Hi Matt85,
Yeah, I do not fully understand the recoil/tender shoulder thing either.
But I will say this, it seems to be a possibility that some of us have either fragile blood vessels or we have them arranged too close to the surface.
A possible example is when I was in my 20s through my 30s, and keeping my body fat way down by means of serious exercise / eating primarily vegetables and lean meat, I had bruised a shoulder blue, more than once with a .30-06 among other not so large calibers.
Also, one time in high school, a friend jokingly punched me with a simple "jab" (not a very serious impact) about where the rifle butt sets during firing.
This resulted in an obvious black and blue contusion forming soon thereafter.
Now that I am old and not so lean anymore, I do not bruise as easily as I used to but, I still bruise easier than some other men do in my opinion.
At any rate, I do enjoy rifles, large and small but, it seems to be my lot in life that I not enjoy them loaded to the red line, so to speak.
Keeping the recoil pad slightly onto my chest muscle, instead of buried into the normal "firing pocket" also seems to help me not turn so thoroughly purple from it all.
Cheers,
Sissy Dog.
