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Yes me too 32g winchester trap now in those days you did feel it as guns were generally lighter then.

 

[Skeet UK]

I don't understand all this after market stick on stuff or indeed any type of recoil reducer, seems a better idea to me to buy a gun that fits in the 1st place. If it fits it won't kick. I have never suffered from recoil (apart from someone else's side by side) and i am not 20st so can't imagine what cartridges some people are using or how bad there gun fit or technique must be.

There is no way to REDUCE recoil without absorbing it.  If the gun fits, it won't bash you about,but the actual recoil is still there...it's physics.

Now, even if you don't notice it, or get fatigued by it, that recoil is hitting your body and being absorbed by it..by your bones, joints, cartilage and muscle.

Do you think that can be good for your body...thousands of shots per year, year on year?  Any way you care to slice it, it will not be good for you.  

We will find out in years to come, what the effects of continued exposure to recoil is.

So for for now, the purpose of a recoil reducer is improve my shooting, reduce fatigue and without a doubt, do considerably less damage to my body.

 

[ips]

Point taken

 

[maddmatt]

Well there is an aspect to recoil that seems to have been missed. When a gun fits perfectly the recoil travels backwards AND inline with the barrels, resulting in no muzzle flip, meaning the stock never leaves the face and the stock does not move in the shoulder, THEREFORE, less physical effort required to keep the gun under control. If your gun does not fit to this degree, you get muzzle flip, majority of which is in the upwards direction, which results in the stock wanting to drop away from the face and shoulder pocket.

If you don't believe me, I will show you video of this happening and the consequent effect on the shoulder in terms of recoil.