Labradinger
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Recently purchased a 1973 Franchi 48. No recoil pad. Shot a box of target loads on light setting and no problem with recoil at all. I have about 6 boxes of prairie storm. Im not, to my knowledge, recoil sensitive while hunting. I have switched to the heavy setting and plan to pattern some loads this weekend. My question is will those hot loads potentially damage/crack the grip like so many i see for sale? Or is that just from guys shooting heavy loads on light setting? If the consensus is the ps could cause damage i wont even pattern with those shells in case its awesome and ill be tempted to use them. I have several other rounds to pattern, just have an excess of these loads at the moment.