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Originally Posted by Betonov
There was a Mythbusters episode, where they showed that the target knocks back with the same force the gun kicks back at the shooter. Not much since guns don't usually knock back shooters.
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That is really just simple physics a person that never fired a gun in their life but that understood even basic physics would know that the recoil of a weapon is going to be equal (or roughly) to the bullets forward force.
Of course it seems that most people use Hollywood as a source for scientific fact and since in most films and TV shows the person gets blown across the room they assume that to be true.
With a living person or animal the reaction to a bullet strike can vary greatly depending on many factors.You can hit two deer in the heart with a .308 with the same rifle at the same range and they both will react differently drop differently or maybe they get of a few bounds before they expire and the other one does not you never know for sure.