10 Hunting Calibers With Shockingly Soft Recoil — And the 1894 Round Softer Than a Creedmoor video from Hunt Forge.
Summary:
The softest-kicking cartridge on this list didn't even make the top three.
And the one that did win was adopted before the thirty-aught-six existed.
If you've hunted long enough, your shoulder keeps its own record. This is the countdown of 10 hunting calibers with shockingly soft recoil, ranked by one rule you can say in a breath: a cartridge must still carry about 1,000 ft-lb at 500 yards to reach the top three, and inside each group, softer always ranks higher. Along the way: the .244 that lost a war over rifling twist, the .30-30 that sat in a century of deer stands, the 7x57 Jack O'Connor loved, and an 1894 cartridge that calculates softer than the 6.5 Creedmoor.
Every recoil number is calculated free recoil from one published table, not felt recoil. We tell you exactly what that means, where the data is strong, and where it isn't.
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