Recoil seems to be more a matter of perception than anything else. Proper shoulder placement will nullify all but the most extreme of rifle calibers. The Mosin-Nagant is far from extreme. My 15 (now 17) year old daughter has been carrying and shooting a 356 Winchester in a 94 Winchester lever action carbine in deer season and having no issues with recoil. Having fired both, the 91-30's recoil is less.

She fired it four times, handed it to my future son in law who outweighs her by a good 60lbs fired it once, gave himself a black eye and declined firing it a second time. He had only fired AR class rifles to that point.

I shot my 91-30 just wearing a t-shirt, no problems.
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