Quoted: Stock buffer in the .50Beowulf here and she runs like a top! Haven't found a need to shoot tons of ammo through the Beo at a single sitting, and it is pricey even though I reload it, so it is fine the way it is. I am assuming all these buffers you speak of reduce the recoil a bit? Is that the point?
I can tell COLD does not use anything to reduce recoil. I clearly remember a pic of him with some animal he blasted and a nice WACK around his eye from his scope! HAHAHA!!! Gotta watch that one! I had some guy at our range want to shoot my Beowulf and he mentioned something about shooting the .223 with your nose to the charge handle. I caught him before he loaded her up and suggested he NOT put his nose there! Good thing, cause he woulda gotten SLAMMED.
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Nope, I dont use anything to reduce recoil, mainly because I dont find the recoil on the 458 SOCOM to be that daunting. If you shoot a 300 WBY Mag bolt gun for big game, prone...the 458 SOCOM is a welcomed change. Furthermore, the round was designed, and what a great forethought it was indeed, to not need any mods beyond the barrel and minor bolt mods. Standard Mags/buffers/lower internals, you name it, there all the same, as such, I intend to further prove that the 458 SOCOM need not have anything special beyond the basical upper to show its form andf function. Over 1000 rounds of ammo down the pipe and not one issue. Only issue have had, was with some exotic sabots, they were truly a T & E experience, and well, the first few cycled the action and the last 2 did not. Otherwise, no FTF's no stove pipping, no FTE's. The thing goes bang, every time Ive ever needed it to.
ETA: I guess you dont remember that pic very well...only because the nice wack was infact not around my eye...but on the bridge of my nose...and all I will say is, it was not from actually shooting those pigs...nor from me being to close to the scope on the 458 SOCOM...