Gene,
Isn't the worst of the recoil going the wrong way to damage anything on the gun if the butt is on solid ground ? On both my gas ram guns the forward recoil is more than the rearward. Plus rearward is soft, forward sharper.
No idea what the numbers are to compute the forward recoil, but out of curiosity I used one of the on-line recoil calculators to get some idea of how much rearward recoil there is when the gun first fires before the piston slams home. My Trail XL shooting Predators didn't even register. I had to up the feet per second to 1100 fps before it showed the lowest number the calculator can - a 0.01 foot pounds of recoil. My 12 ga slug gun shooting one ounce sabots is about 20 foot pounds of recoil. That's 2000 times more recoil than the Trail XL, and it never broke a scope.
I wonder if the person who said the guns can't be stood up also tapes over the unused electrical wall outlets so the electricity doesn't leak out onto the floor
?
And I also wonder .... did that first reviewer ever find her guns rifling
?
Actually, I do read some of those reviews for how entertaining some of them can be. However, the reviews I prefer to go by are the ones I see on this site.
Paul.