Maybe it's me, or the stocks on the rifles but my experience with recoil is that these all felt the same to me:

30-06 - 150 factory load
308 - 150 factory load
270 - 130 factory load

My 7x57 (which is the same as the 7x08) with 140s and 160 (handloads) recoils, IMO, far less than all three mentioned above. It's a lot more comfortable to shoot.

My 243 recoils less than the 7x57 as well.

So if I were purchasing a short action light rifle it would be a 7x08. YMMV.

Last edited by Paradiddle; 11/04/15.