what do you use to tone down recoil

[gohip2000]

Hire a "sighter-iner" to due the pre-shooting at the range. When you fire
   that bad-boy at your grocery item you`ll be so excited you won`t feel a thing.  Problem solved, IMHO.

 " The best part of the hunt is not the harvest but in the experience."

This may not be a good idea as most people have different sight pictures when the rifle is seated in their shoulders and they are aligning the sigts.  what might be right on for one person could be way off for another.  you could have someone find the mechanical zero, and then adjust your self as needed.

[Dana C]

I have just put a Limb Saver on a 458 Lott Ruger #1 and it has made a huge difference.  My MarlinG will punish however with full bore (Garret like) rounds but I intende to put one on that as well.  

I live in the country and pushed up a small burm at the end of my drive way which allows me to shoot a couple or four rounds every day.  It doesn't matter what I shoot, I just shoot something.  A squeeze of a couple of 375 HH, or a couple or .22, 44 mag., the 458, 45-70 or what ever.  It doesn' matter.  I shoot; that is the main thing.  Over a couple of months, I have found that recoil out of just about anything doesn't bother me nearly as much as before and I a MUCH better shooter.

Shoot your rifle as  much as you can and focus on the sight picture and the recoil will not bother you.  And NO you will not learn to flinch.  The only time I flinch now is at the range when some one is shooting a heavy caliber Browning with a Boss next to me.

[victorcharlie]

Good advice from Dana.........I've got to say the Limbsaver pad has tamed my 1895 a lot.........but while my shoulder is much happier, the danged scope hit me on the bridge of the nose last weekend while checking the zero for deer season............This is the first rifle that has ever done that to me.......I'll admit, I was on the bench......and wasn't holding the fore arm tightly.....and a Leupold VX-III with 4 inches of eye relief on top of that!.....anyway.......4 shots at 100 yards in 5/8 inch.......pulled the 5th one, it's the one that hit me in the nose.........this flyer added an inch to the group, or 1 5/8"..............still......with factory remington 300 grain cartridges the gun is quite a shooter............It also shoots the PMC HA's or +p+ just as good, but just don't see that I need them for deer..........

Guess I'll need a PAST for the nose?
 
Oh well.......it only bled for a little while! :eek: