When I was a little boy, I thought that the recoil of a 3" magnum 20 guage was pretty stout. But I was all of 5' nothin' and 80 pounds. Since then I've grown to notice that recoil is all in your head--until I first shot my A-Bolt in 30-06 with the stock pad. 6 rounds and I thought that Mike Tyson had been pounding me in the shoulder. The huge purple bruise I had was not my imagination, I can assure you. I then put a Decelerator on it and now it's a pussycat. The lesson? It's all in the stock design.

Regards, Vince