A while back, a friend and I decided we were going to shoot up his stock of 50/140/750 Sharps cartriges so that he could clean up his brass and load some more. We each shot 5 ends a piece until the 50 cartridges were gone. The 1st five were darned cool and made a neat 3'" group at 385 meters. The second 5 hurt, and not such a neat group. 3rd 5 hurt a lot more and was not even close to being fun. 4th 5 shots were horrible, headache,shoulder and arm deeply bruised, what the hell am I doing? Had to prove how manly stupid were and last five, guess what, you don't hit the target when you close your eyes and hold the rifle away from your body. You could never ever convince me to set down behind that rifle again.
Then he remembers why he had a recoil pad.
I just told him real men don't use pads.
Then he remembers why he had a recoil pad.
I just told him real men don't use pads.