True, recoil beats a gun up, but higher pressures & heat are not good for a barrel &/or it's forcing cone.In you example, the recoil would be vurtually identical but the W231 load will be doing so w/ much higher pressures. To extend your guns life, shoot loads w/ lower pressures & lighter bullets for less recoil.

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