There are a great many rifle cartridges, far more than there are shotgun gauges. (Remember, hunting rifles are usually equipped with a scope and shotguns are not.) It happens that small gauge field shotguns typically weigh less than small bore hunting rifles, while the weight of large bore field shotguns (12 and 10 gauge) are more generally comparable to the weight of larger caliber hunting rifles. In order to give a realistic idea of how much various shotgun and rifle loads are liable to kick the shooter, the recoil figures below are for hunting guns of typical weight for their caliber or gauge. Therefore, gun weight is crucial to determining the recoil a shooter experiences when he or she pulls the trigger. Shooting the exact same load, the heavier the gun, the lower the recoil energy a gun that weighs twice as much, kicks half as hard. Gun weight is an important, and inversely proportional, component of recoil. Shoot your 12 gauge pump or O/U shotgun from a bench rest some day and you will see what I mean. The former situation minimizes the subjective recoil, while the latter maximizes subjective recoil. Conversely, at rifle ranges, rifles are normally fired from a sitting position at a bench rest at static targets and the shooters attention is focused on the gun's sights (or scope). The shooter's attention is necessarily focused on the target, not the gun. However, is is worth noting that shotguns are generally fired at moving targets from a standing position at the trap, skeet or sporting clays range. The list below provides some objective answers. A common question among shooters is how rifle and shotgun recoil compares.
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