Stock vs recoil:

[Flewis]

All this post does is show there is no one size fits all. Everyone experiences recoil differently and very few people are same size. Mind set also plays a huge part, maybe the bigger part.

 

[Olvast09]

The best .416 I ever shot had a 14" LOP and 5/8" drop at heel. It still kicked like a freight train, but I could shoot it all day (well, 30 rounds). The worst was an old CZ 550 with 1" drop. It chased me off big bores for two years.

 

[Cabelcan]

Your custom stock’s 1 1/8" heel drop is more suitable for a shotgun or a light-recoiling deer rifle. For a .416, it’s a pain machine.

 

[Rule 303]

I've found that total gun weight is far more important than stock design. Simple physics says weight v power level will determine how much recoil a gun producers. All the stock design does is determine where that recoil goes.

Very strange indeed. I like most find stock design to be more important than weight in taming felt recoil.