Pistol aficionados refer to it as recoil.
Noise and recoil
A powerful pistol will have a powerful recoil.
If it is a spring pistol it won't have any recoil. According to the specifications, the UHC 1911 Spring Airsoft pistol has an unloaded weight of 1.25 pounds.
Semi-automatic firearms, such as the 1911A1 pistol use a spring to help absorb some of the recoil energy, and use the energy to reload the pistol.
22 Long Rifle
The correct name of the popular Luger pistol is the Pistol Parabellum 1908 or the Parabellum Pistole. This pistol is toggle logged, semi-automatic, and recoil-operated.
Air cooled, magazine fed, recoil operated, double action, semi automatic pistol.
It depends totally on the type of ammunition, but for a given caliber a Glock generally has LESS perceived recoil than another pistol of similar weight, because of the recoil mechanism and the flexibility of the frame.
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Impossible to answer. "Best" is a subjective term that is colored by your skill, pocketbook, type of pistol, recoil sensitivity,etc..
Not all guns have a recoil spring. In the case of guns like the 1911A1 .45 cal pistol, when the gun fires, the slide is driven back by recoil (kick). The recoil spring is compressed, stops the slide from moving back, and pushes the slide forward for the next shot. Is does not make the gun recoil less.