Marlin 1895 Cowboy 45-70
WB yew jist don't have my right shoulder and the bursitis I have. I shot both 300s and 400s the first time. Don't rightly recall the velocity of them as it was a long time ago I loaded and clocked them. Best I recall tho the 400s were over 1800 and the 300s way faster. Both hurt me badly even with the 1/2" thick PAST pad on my shoulder.
I plan to try it again now that I have the Pachmayr pad on it but with 300s closer to 1250-1400 fps range. That's really no more than a .45 Colt load in it.
Unless the doctor's get my right shoulder fixed my days of shooting guns from the bench with recoil much above the .243 level are about over. Just one shot from the LW .243 with 90 BTs without the PAST pad was painful to the shoulder the other day wearing a t-shirt. The two shots from the LSS Mtn. Rifle in 7-08 at the deer didn't hurt but I did have several layers of clothes on that day as it was pretty chilly. Hunting with rifles with recoil at the 7-08 level isn't going to be a problem but shooting for fun or from the bench for testing may no longer be do able for me. Just gonna hafta see what the medications I'm taking for the shoulder do for it. The all day every day pain is gone from it now but it is still very tender to recoil.
Just too many hundreds of thousands of rounds have hammered it I guess. I think my days of 12 ga. shooting might also be over. I've picked up a nice little 28 ga. double I'm planning on trying soon for wing shooting.
GB
WB yew jist don't have my right shoulder and the bursitis I have. I shot both 300s and 400s the first time. Don't rightly recall the velocity of them as it was a long time ago I loaded and clocked them. Best I recall tho the 400s were over 1800 and the 300s way faster. Both hurt me badly even with the 1/2" thick PAST pad on my shoulder.
I plan to try it again now that I have the Pachmayr pad on it but with 300s closer to 1250-1400 fps range. That's really no more than a .45 Colt load in it.
Unless the doctor's get my right shoulder fixed my days of shooting guns from the bench with recoil much above the .243 level are about over. Just one shot from the LW .243 with 90 BTs without the PAST pad was painful to the shoulder the other day wearing a t-shirt. The two shots from the LSS Mtn. Rifle in 7-08 at the deer didn't hurt but I did have several layers of clothes on that day as it was pretty chilly. Hunting with rifles with recoil at the 7-08 level isn't going to be a problem but shooting for fun or from the bench for testing may no longer be do able for me. Just gonna hafta see what the medications I'm taking for the shoulder do for it. The all day every day pain is gone from it now but it is still very tender to recoil.
Just too many hundreds of thousands of rounds have hammered it I guess. I think my days of 12 ga. shooting might also be over. I've picked up a nice little 28 ga. double I'm planning on trying soon for wing shooting.
GB
