Your personal recoil limit for predator hunting…

[LONEHOWL]

….what is it? Caliber wise?
Am just curious peoples recoil threshold nowdays. I’m interested for whatever reason.

 

[crapshoot]

I use to use a 338wm quite often in the past. Just loved the gun.

 

[spotstalkshoot]

Gun shop owner friend talked me into a Rem 7saum Sendero when they came out. Stainless fluted varmint barrel, HS precision stock. Take it out occasionally and thump a coyote with it, 300 yards + usually.

 

[hunt0168]

Heaviest recoil for specifically predators is 12 gauge, 3”, 2 ounce 4 buck loads.

I don’t currently have anything heavier than 308 Win, so I guess that’s as heavy as I get on the rifle side of things. Because everyone knows if a coyote shows up at any kind of hunt, it turns into a coyote hunt! Lol… 308 is more than manageable though.

Had a wood stocked Savage 110 in 30-06 when I was a kid. That thing kicked harder than anything else I ever owned! Called it The Li’l Mule. Put a Bell and Carlson synthetic stock on it and tamed the kick considerably.

 

[AWS]

I think I've reached mine with a 6.5# 350 Rem Mag. I have loaded some 158gr JHPs over a dose of slow shotgun powder to try out on coyotes next fall. Full power loads will be fired few and far between.

For a full time predator rig I think my 25-204, no 100gr bullet at 2850 fps would be as heavy as I want to shoot.

My predator shotgun loads are 1 oz and 1 1/4 oz.

 

[DoubleLungRage]

Since I'm not shooting 100's of rounds every time I go coyote hunting I've never given recoil any thought. With that said, the 12ga with #4 buck has the most recoil.

 

[hm1996]

Because everyone knows if a coyote shows up at any kind of hunt, it turns into a coyote hunt! Lol…

A man after my own heart!

I've never given recoil any thought. With that said, the 12ga with #4 buck has the most recoil.

I use to use a 338wm quite often in the past. Just loved the gun.

Whatever I have in my hands at the moment. Guess the biggest I've ever shot a coyote with is the .375 h&h. Since my 338 WM is my all around favorite big game rifle, probably killed more coyotes with it than everything other than my pet .243 WSSM. IMO, you can't have too much rifle. One of the last coyotes I shot was w/30-06.

 

[carvercalls]

35 cal Airgun..

 

[22magnum22]

I am all in on the 243.

 

[derbyacresbob]

6mm Creedmoor with 62 Gr Barnes Varmint Grenades.

12 ga 3" 1-1/2 oz of TSS shot at 1300 fps

 

[El Jefe]

It isn’t the shoulder that sets my recoil limit when thermal hunting…it is the almost non existent eye relief on the scope. Don’t care how tough you are nobody likes getting smacked in the face by your own scope!!

That said , the 7mm-08 with 120 VMax’s or a 25-06 shooting 90 grain loads is all I care to shoot in that scenario.

 

[Nonnieselman]

Ive never tried anything larger than a .22-250 for predator hunting.
If i have the 300wm while deer hunting and get a chance to blast a coyote, ill take that shot anyday.
But its heavy and suppressed so almost no recoil.

Id rather stick with 223 and .22-250 tho. Since i can practice with them often and not get expensive to shoot.
223 i have a 50 yard increment drop chart ive confirmed out to 800 yards so it gets used mostly.

 

[DAA]

All I had and all I used for many yeas starting out was a Model 70 in .270 Win. Used mostly 110's for coyote. Recoil wasn't too bad as I remember it.

Nowadays, the shotgun, by far. None of my calling rifles recoil enough to be any consideration.

- DAA

 

[DesertRam]

I've shot several with my .50 caliber inline muzzleloader, which packs a pretty fair punch to the shoulder. Aside from that, 12 gauge with heavy 3" mags. I can't say that I have a limit though. Whatever is available when it's calling time.

 

[Utahcaller]

I am like Dave, for a number of years I used my Remington 700 .270 with 90 grain Sierra hollowpoints at around 3400 fps not to bad but I much prefer my
.22-250 Ackley. And yes using my 12 gauge shotgun with 2oz. TSS #2’s or #4’s is definitely my limit anymore…..

Good Hunting Chad

 

[spotstalkshoot]

I have a synthetic stock Savage 220(20 gs bolt action slug gun). That is a kicker, during our farmland deer season I shoot coyote with it. Otherwise I would have to use a rimfire rifle. I have a Leupold ultimate slug gun scope on it. Furthest first shot kill 175 yards, closest 9 feet. Federal 3" fusion sabots have been pretty decent on fur.

 

[hm1996]

Started out hunting coyotes and jackrabbits with a 1903A3 Springfield 30-06, using 93 gr "Plinkers". They were made by Hornady IIRC were half jacketed lead bullet designed for the .30 Luger cartridge. That was before the day of personal chronographs, so have no idea of velocity, but didn't get any ricochets with them in the salt flats. In a word, spectacular!!

 

[why]

My first CF was a 308 and I never gave much thought to recoil. That was then now I enjoy seeing my hits and don't care to shoot more gun than needed so I use 20vt, 222, 223 or a 22-250 all suppressed.

 

[Spurchaser]

If it results in a dead coyote or hog, I don’t have a limit.
I don’t own a rifle with a recoil that a kid couldn’t shoot.
I do own a shotgun, 1956 Browning Light Twelve, that I wouldn’t exactly pick to shoot coyotes unless it was singles only and only one per night. That gun will rock your world with a turkey shell or buck shot.

 

[Duhhh]

6 creedmoor has been my recoil threshold for a bit now. I’m a sucker for spotting impacts all the way into sub 100 yards. Used to shoot a 300 win mag for big game but I’m finding my 6mm is just as effective at killing stuff as the big 30 cal.