Lowest Recoiling Shotgun

[Dakine_surf]

Interesting. It would sure be cheaper to go the pump route too. What would you compare the recoil with using the Hogue stock? Are you using that on a 12 or 20 guage? What kind of gun?

Well the gun in question is a 12ga winchester 1300. I think the softer recoil is due to 2 different things. 1 is the hogue stock and 2 is the design of the 1300's bolt. It uses a rotary bolt head similar to an AR-15. So when the round is fired, it unlocks and basically cycles the action... so some of the initial recoil is absorbed similar to a semi-auto. Really all that is required to cycle the gun is to pull the fore-end back out after you pull the trigger. If I had to compare it to something, I guess I would say full slugs feels like my M1 Garand. Bird shot (typically 7.5 shot) feels about the same as my AR-15 with the carbine gas system.

That being said, it is still a little more recoil than say my Benelli M2 which is super soft.

[Goop]

Obviously anything semi auto is going to have a much softer recoil....

Otherwise the trick is to just have a heavier stock. If the stock is heavy enough the recoil will be negligible. I recently got one of the ATI Akita stocks for my Mossberg 500 by mail order, i didn't realize how heavy they were. Now the recoil is like nothing.

[ggunner]

Go with a Beretta 3901, almost recoiless, and it comes with beretta's lifetime warranty

Thanks for the tip. These are priced within my range too!

[ggunner]

Obviously anything semi auto is going to have a much softer recoil....

Otherwise the trick is to just have a heavier stock. If the stock is heavy enough the recoil will be negligible. I recently got one of the ATI Akita stocks for my Mossberg 500 by mail order, i didn't realize how heavy they were. Now the recoil is like nothing.

Great suggestion. I hadn't considered changing the stock to add weight. Thanks for the tip!