Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles Lightweight 300 WSM recoil question?

I have a Kimber Montana in 300WSM. I, too, am not recoil sensitive. Plus, I think the very nice Montana stock helps to mitigates the recoil. But, I do have a limit of about 40 rounds off the bench with this setup. I've never noticed the recoil when hunting, and I sure do like carrying such a light rifle in the elk mountains.

I usually shoot 180gn bullets, but recently have started experimenting with 150gn mono bullets. The 150gn bullet gets a little more speed, a flatter trajectory, and with the mono metal bullet structural integrity, can reliably take anything in North America (although I would want a little extra insurance for the big bears).

150gn at 3350fps lacks for nothing. This would be for western hunting. Probably too much cartridge for shooting whitetails in the usually closer quarters of eastern forests.

JMHO