My 7mm RM weighs 7# with a 2.5-10x42 30mm Swarovski. I’d shot enough stuff with a .300 WM that I didn’t want to stand behind that rifle anymore. My elk got just as dead as the .300WM and .338WM elk on the meat pole and the deer didn’t run away either. As you get older, you will appreciate lighter recoil and less weight.
My other auto is a .45
The bitterness of poor quality is remembered long after the sweetness of low price has faded from memory
