I am not a fan of brakes. Get a good recoil pad and shoot what you can handle. If you handload, load up some Barnes 130s at 308 velocities in the 30-06 and be done. Or as already suggested, the 25-06 with 120s. If that is still too much or you do not handload, a 260Rem or 7mm-08 (love this one!) would be great choices. One of those two in a Rem700 stainless with a laminated Mountain Rifle stock would be a teddy bear to shoot.

Last edited by himmelrr; 09/09/22.