The Best Ways to Reduce Rifle Recoil for Shooters

Recoil is something most of us learn to live with, and bodily injury is usually no more serious than an occasional sore shoulder or at the very worst a half-moon scope cut above an eyebrow. Rarely is it more serious, but bad things can happen.

Years ago, friend and colleague John Wootters suffered retinal detachment in an eye, and as best as I can recall he was shooting a rifle chambered for the .416 Taylor. Far more common than that is an incurable flinch, something trap shooters who have been breaking clay targets with heavy, shoulder-pounding loads for many years are often forced to contend with.

Some shotgunners fool their brains into thinking recoil is not coming until...

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