One of these years at a large event perhaps a blind firing test of felt recoil could be set up and put an end to the endless discussions of felt recoil, perceived recoil and actual recoil as relates to velocity, short chambers, short and long forcing cones pressures.
I did that very thing with an A grade Fox a few years ago at the Southern Side by Side and a couple of smaller shoots. (Over 200 subjects shot a 26" cut barrels cyl and cyl gun with only one forcing cone lengthened.) I never managed to sell the story but the results were interesting. I'm sure I still have the results somewhere in my computer. The short story is that there wasn't statistical evidence that there was a percieved difference. On the reporting sheet, I asked the vollunteers if they believed it made a difference and caught a few trying to look in the chambers.
Trust me, you could run the results on 20/20 and it wouldn't end the discussions.
