Originally Posted By: ben-t
Pressure blows apart barrels, recoil breaks stocks. That is if you talking only the effect on the gun. If you can afford to replace stocks don't worry about recoil. Loosing your fingers or eyes is a different thing all together, of course. All depends on what gun your talking about? Remington 870 - no worries, unless your have mud in the bore.


Ben-T and Rocketman I appreciate the brevity of your responses and totally agree with your statement but by extension could we also say that since we are discussing the effects of heavy recoil on a double gun that excessive recoil induces additional wear on the barrel lug, hinge pin, under bites and other locking mechanisms and prematurely wears or cause damage to these parts in addition to breaking stocks?