Sore shoulder

[rangerod]

At my age I'm not really liking recoil. Decided to try smaller lighter bullets. Say something in the neighborhood of 185-200 grain xtp with 80 grains of powder. In the past it seems like the bigger bullets are more accurate (stabilize better?). Just wondering members experience with lighter bullets in a 50 cal.

 

[edmehlig]

Not in a 50, but in my 45's I love shooting my 345gr conicals over my 465gr conicals.

 

[smokepolehall]

I shoot Barnes n XTP's in 200 gr, 225gr, 230 gr n 250 gr. .451 in sabots from my Blk. Diamond at 75 gr T7 2f. Recoil is not bad, i don't have a .50 inline just a .45 sml NEF but its very easy to handle the recoil with any of the Blk. or Sub. powders. I don't have any trouble up to 56 gr of H4198. Once i go past that its shoulder punishment n it takes a Toll me fairly quick. I will be 73 in June but i am 100 % disabled, so you may fall into the same area of too much just hurts for no reason.

 

[rangerod]

Too much hurts for no reason. I'll sure go along with that.

 

[brownisdown]

When I had a .50 cal cva mzl I used a harvester dark blue sabot with a 40 cal 200 grain bullet or a 180 grain 40 cal bullet in that sabot.It is a 50x40 sabot.The number is p/nh15040bl.And I used 90 grains of bh209 p0wder.I still have 2 packages of the sabots because I went all 45's now.

 

[a cloud of smoke]

in another thread about shooting after shoulder surgery, the best way to avoid damage or pain is to disperse the impact by using a shoulder pad rather than a padded butt plate, the object of using a shoulder pad is to spread out the rearward force across the biggest area possible...
if you hit the top of your hand with a hammer, the impact is in a small area and will cause much pain or damage, now put a 4 inch square of wood on your hand and hit again, it wont be anything close in pain or damage compared to the 1 inch face of the hammer hitting the same spot..

 

[RobRed]

If we’re talking bench shooting I recommend a lead sled.

A shooting sled takes up most of the recoil.

If you’re not interested in a sled then get a good shoulder pad.

 

[LBAhunter]

At my age I'm not really liking recoil. Decided to try smaller lighter bullets. Say something in the neighborhood of 185-200 grain xtp with 80 grains of powder. In the past it seems like the bigger bullets are more accurate (stabilize better?). Just wondering members experience with lighter bullets in a 50 cal.

I always had better luck with 45 cal bullets than the 40 cal bullets.
When I had my CVA Optima V2 50, a Barnes 45ACP 185gr in a MMP black sabot with BH209. I shot 74gr (W) of BH209. I'm sure 80gr (V) of BH209 would be very low recoil.

 

[smokepolehall]

At my age I'm not really liking recoil. Decided to try smaller lighter bullets. Say something in the neighborhood of 185-200 grain xtp with 80 grains of powder. In the past it seems like the bigger bullets are more accurate (stabilize better?). Just wondering members experience with lighter bullets in a 50 cal.

What 50 cal do you have ? Wide range of powders n combo's to work with. Are you punching holes in targets ? Do you hunt ?

 

[Okie Hog]

the best way to avoid damage or pain is to disperse the impact by using a shoulder pad rather than a padded butt plate,

My wife sewed pads into the shoulders of my shooting shirts. The pad allows me to fire heavy recoiling muzzleloader and center fire rifles without pain.