Thread: Is it time to leave the 27 gang?

Originally Posted by Moa Hunter

What a lot of cock pulling about recoil impulses. I have owned three 270's and shot plenty of others. The worst recoil by far was a T3. It is down to rifle weight, stock MATERIAL as well as design. You blokes will have Sir Issac Newton turning in his grave with that non-physics BS .
My pet 270 is a 700 with a Kevlar filled Bell and Carlson stock and thick standard recoil pad. We all know that kevlar absorbs / dissipates / slows shock waves. Anyone can fire that gun. It is quite a light gun. A friends son shot two pigs and a possum with it one evening and he was only 10 at the time.
Everyone knows that those hard ugly factory T3 stocks only use is for staking roses, why would anyone even consider using one on a gun ??.
You cant have velocity + projectile weight without an equal and opposite force - recoil

Interesting comments about the T3 stock. I’ve always rated them pretty highly as far as cheap polymer stocks go, they tend to be more rigid than most and fit the average person well enough. The recoil pad is no limbsaver but I’ve shot worse.

But hey maybe you’re right, maybe they are a shit design for the more powerful cartridges. The theory fits with my particular experience, that thing kicked like a mule! More than any 270 had any right to