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Originally Posted by TOMAHAWK9521
I was taught that way as well....Until I picked up a .338 Lapua. Sure, I may be a wuss here, but I've learned to adopt a tighter hold with the larger/hotter cartridges. Assuming that that semi-loose posture with a .338 Lapua or 300 RUM and it feels reminiscent of a mule kicking you in the eye/face. Bad positioning behind the gun will also get you. I dropped an elk up on the side of a mountain from a bad position and it earned me an Indian beauty mark in my forehead for my stupidity.
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My dad had a Remington Model 600 .350 Magnum that had similar characteristics: kicked like a mule! He taught me well to have firm grip on rifle w/cheek planted firmly on stock (so that I and the gun were one; and we would move "as one" through the recoil). If you made the mistake of NOT holding / cheeking this rifle firmly, the recoil would bring that Leupold Vari-X III scope back right at about the eyebrow line.
One day my dad and his brother had been shooting at the range not far from where we lived. I was home when they came back and noticed a swelling cut/bruise above my uncle's eye - at the eyebrow line. I asked him: "Were you shooting the 350?" He nodded, embarrassed. Yep, that one kicked like a mule.
