I'll try to measure the pitch tomorrow, but off hand I would say that it is probably pretty close to what it should be for me. I was not getting anything on my cheek or face and for all intents and purposes it was recoiling straight back. I'm pretty sure my right shoulder was absorbing every once of recoil the gun had to offer. It's the sort of thing a guy could develop a fairly significant flinch over, ... possibly even a twitch...
In addition to a can of whupass on every shot it is extremely loud. The neighbors probably thought I had some kind of explosives.
Years ago when I had all three boys and a bunch of nephews hunting, one of their favorite activities was to shoot a hog right at dusk. I would go looking for it alone since it was easier to fight wild hogs than to have to go home and tell my wife or sisters that I had fed one of their children to wild hogs....
At first I used a 1911 45ACP. It worked well until one night it didn't work so well. Then I went to the sxs. A full sized 12 ga sxs on your hands and knees in a hog tunnel is nearly worse than nothing at all.
I found a Springfield 511 that had seen better times and cut the barrels to 19" and the stock a hair as well. All legal of course. It worked remarkably well on hogs at 10 yards and was easier to handle.
But, it was a bugger bear to hold onto once the shooting started, and once the shooting started, anything downrange was either dead, dying or deaf.
It has limited uses. This 10 ga has even greater limitations. But, I can certainly understand how and why some of the old time elephant hunters were confident about whailing away at pachyderms with a 10 bore and round ball. It is a powerful gun.
Alan
