Heavy gun weight in relation to caliber?

[Curious]

Guys,

I wonder if there are any seasoned heavy gun shooters who might give their opinion on my topic?

Is it possible to have a heavy gun that is too heavy for its caliber and the recoil it produces to the point it has a negative affect on accuracy?

Could there be such a thing as an optimum weight to recoil ratio?

 

[CaptainMal]

Local south Florida shooter, Charlie Brown, still sometimes shoots this creature. He won many tournaments with it in its' day. Think the barrel is a bit worn now or Charlie just got worn out lugging the thing to the bench. Bet it weighed 50 lbs but not sure. I hefted it once. That was enough.

IMGP9540 by Larry Malinoski, on Flickr

 

[Loggins J]

I have seen some that around 100lb if you talk to some of the shooters they will tell you you can get to heavy they say after you go over around 60 some pounds it don't help to make them any heaver it still will move the same that is with big 30 caliber's it don't hurt the accuracy the reason they want them heavy is so they don't move

 

[mikegaiz]

I have been pretty lucky shooting HG in IBS 1000 yd. comp. 0ver the last 5 years, My three HG weigh just under 45 lbs. They are all within 1 lb. of each other. One 6.5/47 Lapua, one 300 WSM, and one 7 WSM. If that helps. I am too old to carry any heavier.

 

[dmoran]

No matter the weight of the HV gun, the positioning of weight, its balance, and the balance on the rests is what I have found matters more so then the actual weight. On my HV-Gun 6Dasher, tried it from 40 to +60-lbs and settled at 54-lbs, is where I like the balance the best. The barrel size and weight has a lot to do with how much offset weight is needed, and there positioning on the rests - IME
Donovan

 

[JRS]

www.6mmbr.com/gunweek057.html

 

[Loggins J]

I have been pretty lackey shooting HG in IBS 1000 yd. comp. 0ver the last 5 years, My three HG weigh just under 45 lbs. They are all within 1 lb. of each other. One 6.5/47 Lapua, one 300 WSM, and one 7 WSM. If that helps. I am too old to carry any heavier.

Yes Mike did well he set 2 heavy gun records in 2016 he hold's score and group good shooting Mike

 

[dkhunt14]

I believe they need to be heavy enough to track well. Balance needs to be taken into consideration, like Donovan said. I like a longer forend to help keep weight to rear. I believe you can get away with 17 to 30 pound for a Dasher sized case if the stock is right. A WSM might take 35 to 60 pound to do well. A lot has to do with the stock being straight and the weight distributed right. Matt

 

[4xforfun]

My HG weighs 85 pounds. About 40 pounds of that is added to the stock in the form of a six inch wide, one inch thick steel plate that goes from 3 inches in front of the end of the stock all the way back to the trigger guard, with another 3 inch wide, 1 inch thick bar on the butstock. The steel has had deep runners milled into them for tracking. I shoot 300 WSM and 300 WBY. Am thinking about adding a 338 EDGE tube to the mix if I ever fire back up again.

I would not make it that heavy if I were shooting a dasher/6-47L/6.5-47L sized case.

Tod