First off, I guess am not recoil sensitive but I really did not realize it till I got on this site and read all the pink panty crowd posts about the intolerable recoil of such "hard" kicking cartridges as .270 Win, 30-06 and .300 Win in light weight bolt action rifles 😂.....Now to answer the OP's question. I have had several Kimber Montana/Subalpine 8400's chambered in the excellent .300 WSM cartridge, I have experienced minimal recoil in any of the bullet weights I have tried from 130gr - 180gr ...I too am a big fan of Barnes TTSX bullets so My preferred load is a 150 gr TTSX over 64.0 grains of H4350 with a CCI Magnum primer......Good luck....Hb