Funny how 10 months makes you forget.........

Sighted in my 45-70 yesterday..... funny how 10 months makes you forget the recoil......ooooooooooffff..... 4 shots was more than enough, with just a T-shirt..... feeling it today on the ol' tip of the shoulder..... FEELS GOOD........ ready to take advantage of the "special" primitive season next week...... here doe doe .....

+1. I'm planning to shoot my primitive weapon a few times tomorrow and I'm not looking forward to it.

I shot my 45/70 handi rifle today for the first time, don't see what all the fuss is about.... Recoil wasn't that bad. Not a whole lot different than a hot surplus load out of one of my nagants. Didn't bother me at all.

sigma74216 wrote: I'm hoping to sight my H&R 35 Whelen in soon, hoping its not a punisher.

Good luck with that, I had a tc pro hunter in 35 and it kicked like a mule so im sure the handi will kick worse.

sigma74216 wrote:A buddy of mine hated shooting his 45-70 but it never bothered me. But my 760 pump in 270 win puts a whooping on me like no other. Go figure? I'm hoping to sight my H&R 35 Whelen in soon, hoping its not a punisher.

Yeah those TC Pro Hunters with a 35 Whelen don't play. Hold on is all the advice I can give.

Dialed in my Prohunter with 35 Whe barrel couple weeks ago...Recoil no biggie...Course I shoot 300 Weatherby Mag for grins

Now I'm working on me a 7mm-08 load for the TC

Might hunt the Prohunter all season..My 300 Win mag and 308 aint gonna be happy

Hope ya'll kill lots of does during special prim weapon...I'm tired of dodging them on the road...

Hr with a thumbhole stock seems to kick twice as hard as a standard stock .

I usually shoot 10 or so 35 Whe just to warm barrel up first...then dial in

It feels so good....

sigma74216 wrote: I'm hoping to sight my H&R 35 Whelen in soon, hoping its not a punisher.

I shoot a bubby's of mine last year,he had to tell me the nanny fell over cause the blood coming out my nose and water out my eyes made it to where I couldn't see!

Man it hurt.I had a T/C in a 7mag but a good scope so I thought it would be the same.I WAS WRONG!!!!I have shoot it since and no blood but be ready

sigma74216 wrote:A buddy of mine hated shooting his 45-70 but it never bothered me. But my 760 pump in 270 win puts a whooping on me like no other. Go figure? I'm hoping to sight my H&R 35 Whelen in soon, hoping its not a punisher.

be ready for it is all I can tell you,if the 270 whoops you,you're fixing to get a beating

45-70 seems too slow of a push to be bad. The .444 is a little worse but the .500 S&W handi I had a while back was just misery.

I had a doe in the cross hairs with my .444 yesterday and it clicked. I must not have held the trigger down, and the safety connector screwed me. Didn't even dent the primer.