I have a .300 WSM in a M70 Super Grade. It kicks more than an 06 and is slightly louder. I helped kill one moose with mine before I quit hunting, firstly due to covid then to health and age. If you hunt animals larger than deer it is a viable alternative to choose. Personally I have a huge quantity of brass of various makes that I acquired around the time of getting the rifle. I found the accuracy to be every bit as good as I am capable of. If you normally hunt game no larger than deer I would get an 06 or a .308 ( which I don't happen to like.)
Jim
You've never shot an elk or moose with a 200gr Nosler partition from a 30-06, have you? The 300wsm has no upper hand on the 30-06, when you use a bullet like that. Trust me, it plows through elk like a freight train. I've had elk stop the 180gr partition from a 300WSM, so there's that too..
