Lol. They're horribly unpleasant to shoot. Anyone who says otherwise is either a masochist or a liar.
I fired a S&W 500 Magnum once, and that was enough. It's heavy, hell on the webbing of your dominant hand, and could probably instill a bad flinching habit in most people.
What grain bullet did you shoot? The 350s arent too bad but I bought some 700 gr for the hell of it. Big mistake! Me and a friend fired a total of 5 rounds before we both decided it wasn't fun. It even has a disclaimer on the box about how it should only be fired from rifles to avoid injuries to the hand.
The 300 to 350 are not bad i can shoot about 20 to 30 rounds before it becomes uncomfortable. 700gr is a whole new game. The 500 gr is probably stout but it cant possibly compare to 700 gr. Its the only handgun round i have ever bruised my hand with after 5 rounds. I managed to hit a steel silhouette with it despite a terrible flinch it gave me. The plate was probably 40lbs suspended by chain, and it seriously looked like it would flip over the hanger if I could time a 2nd shot just right.
I can feel that. I had a bit of magnum flinch. The sake a7 weighs basically nothing, and comes stock with a hard plastic recoil plate. Barely got it sighted to 100 yards, with 8 rounds before I gave up from the bruising and went to the gun Smith. 1 mercury and recoil pad later I don't even notice. But between the bruisez and getting scoped it took a while to unlearn that flinch
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