Now Take the cannon lay it across the bench and see how much fun it is to shoot next to. There is a guy that shows up at my club with his thunder boomer belted magnum that he keeps telling us he's sighting in for Africa. He never seems to go but shows up every couple of weeks sets up next to me and blows stuff of my bench with the recoil. Then he has the nerve to laugh as I pick my stuff after his muzzle blast. By the way he can barley hit a man target at 100 yards after the first two shots cause his flinch is so bad.

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I agree completely. I know a 50 BMG can cause powder burns at about 20' from a brake.

John I think I'd flip a lit M-80 under his bench just as he started to squeeze his trigger,   and laugh and laugh and laugh.

Of course we are really wandering away from the OP's discussion topic ain't we?

I agree with Boats,  for each action there is a equal or opposite reaction.  I believe felt recoil starts at ignition, not at exit of the tube..  I have had shooters tell me that a noise pollution device (silencer) reduces felt recoil.  enjoyed this thread..  sorry for buttin in...

I'm one of the few that has actually tested brakes and I can say in most cases they do reduce recoil. Recoil is caused by two things, action /reaction of the bullet being pushed down the barrel and the rocket effect of the escaping gas. A brake defuses the rocket effect which eliminates this from the recoil. Brakes have more effect on shorter barrels because the gas pressure is still high ( depending on the speed the powder burns and the amount). On longer barrels the gas pressure is usually lower at the muzzle.

only gun i've ever had ported is my 4" custom Ruger Red-hawk and that was a basic job by Magna-port- many years ago. Two small trapezoidal slots EDM-ed into the barrel, one on each side of the front blade sight. It did help significantly with muzzle jump.  I did not notice any change in perceived recoil rearward, there might have been some. logic says that venting some out the top, enough to hold down the muzzle jump had to mean that the amount going out the end of the barrel was reduced-----just that I could't  sense it.   the sound level was about the same before and after

Well that's a lot to soak in!  I have considered going with a .243 but I've never seen a Browning 1885 in .243 for sale.  Did they make many of them?
I have a 1988 Remington Model 7 with a factory Brown Precision Fiberglass Stock.  Remington had them on the cover of their catalog, apparently Remington assumed that their cost of a fiberglass stock would be less than a wood stock.  I discovered that Remington had planned on retailing the complete 5 pound Model 7 with Brown Precision Fiberglass Stock for around $400, that turned out to be Remington's cost on the Brown Precision Fiberglass Stock.  Remington decided to discontinue the model before they had more than a handful made which they gave to their salesmen to sell.  I loved everything about the gun except the 16" barrel & it wouldn't shoot better than a 3 or 4" group.  I took it to a local gunsmith he checked the gun out, tweaked a few minor things & had the same results when he shot it.  He'd recommended that I try boring it to .243 Ackley Improved, I went for it.  When I went to pick the gun up the gunsmith apologized for shooting the rest of the box of ammo I gave him when I first dropped it off.  Then he pulled a target out with 12 or 13 shoots dead center.  He was shooting .243 Federal Premium 100 grain BTSP & fire forming .243 AI brass.  He said he couldn't believe how accurate it was, then he shot it 10 more times with an extremely hot barrel trying to get a flyer, he ran out of ammo without getting a shot that wouldn't stay in a 1/2 " hole.  I still have that gun, it needs a trigger & a longer barrel, but I really want a Browning 1885 High Wall.