Is a gun recoil of 15 degrees considered to be an average recoil?

Question

I am working on a mock trial and trying to figure out if the "gun" used, a Mauser automatic, which has a recoil of 15 degrees would really push someone back or is that about average?

Answer 1

The mauser automatic is a world war II pistol. The recoil felt would be enough to lift the gun off your point of aim but not enough to push someone backwards as you said. It will have a heavier recoil then a 9mm but it is not uncontrollable with two hands and a good shooting position.

Answer 2

Which model Mauser? You have the Broomhandle Mauser, the Mauser 1934 and the more modern Mauser HSc.

The Broomhandle Mauser is a full-size .9mm (odd versions use a bottle-necked .30 caliber bullet based on the .9mm cartridge) and had the most recoil. The 1934 Mauser was a 7.65mm (.32 acp) with mild recoil and the Mauser HSc was available in both .32 acp and .380 acp. Of the last three the .380 would have the most recoil. I'm not sure how you are measuring degrees, you mean how many degrees will the pistol barrel lift during firing? Then the .9mm Broomhandle and the .380 HSc would have the most lift. The all steel .32 acp models would have the least recoil impulse and be the easiest and most pleasant to shoot especially for a woman or someone with small hands.

I hope that helped. Good luck.

H

Answer 3

Could use a little more information here.

Are you talking about a Mauser handgun or a Mauser rifle? Considerable difference in recoil.

The amount of barrel movement in recoil depends very much on the size and strength of the person shooting the gun.

Let's assume your shooter is a 110 pound woman shooting a Mauser pistol. A 15 degree barrel rise is not that great so the recoil shouldn't push her backwards. Let's now assume an old Mauser military rifle. These were often heavy guns for women. A 15 degree rise would indicate a moderately powerful rifle and might push the woman back a step.

It's just an opinion, but hope it helps.

Answer 4

The recoil is affected by many factors.
The pitch used on the grip for a pistol or stock for a rifle can magnify the felt recoil.
A properly tuned stock even on a large caliber rifle should be a push on your shoulder, and not jack your jaw which some out of tuned stocks will do.
A weapon with an out of tuned stock when fired feels as though some one just punch you in the jaw.
The same stands true for a pistol but is more often a design flaw that is harder to tune.
With a pistol the stress in in the wrist and not the whole arms as it should be.
Most Quality weapons take this in to account when designing a weapon.

Hope this was of some help.

D58

Answer 5

In testing, you would have to look much more closely at all the variables to determine what is "average"

It's like thin...HOW thin? 24 inches...cm...microns?