Shot Talk

Calculating Actual Recoil

As readers of this  column know,     I have never had anything good to say about recoil. For more than 25 years I’ve kept care-ful records of the shooting scores of the 18,000-plus participants in the shooting work-shops I’ve run for the Cooperative North American Shotgunning Education Program (CONSEP), and recoil has proved to be the most erosive force in individual shooting performances. The data clearly show that scores for most of the shooters have degenerated as recoil forces or the number of rounds fired have increased. In short, recoil slowly but surely beats to death the shooting performance of most shotgunners.
    If one cares to shoot as well as possible, then CONSEP’s data document that individuals tend to shoot best with gun-and-load combinations that significantly reduce recoil. The trick... Read More »

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