I don't know why this thought popped into my head, but I've heard various "Riflemen" discussing the problem of recoil with high caliber rifles in the past, and being a midwesterner who grew up "in the sticks", I cut my teeth on a shotgun. As a result, I just don't understand worrying about the difference in recoil between say, a .223 and a .308, and the only rifle I've ever fired that I thought that the recoil was significant in was a .458 magnum bolt action. If a body's used to carrying and firing a 12 guage on a good day of flushing birds, is the recoil on anything less than a .300 Weatherby even an issue? And if it's not, then wouldn't it make sense to begin rifle training with trapshooting???
Weight of ammunition follows the same line of thought, if you're used to carrying a bag of shotgun shells, the weight difference between large caliber and small caliber becomes insignificant, doesn't it???
Well, we've got some shooters out there, any thoughts???

Troy