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The one with the lightest powder charge and bullet weight everything else equal.
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I was just shooting a 257 Roberts today, with 87 and 90 grain bullets. It was a shear pleasure shooting those loads from a recoil point of view. However, my 7x57 (VERY close to the 7-08) with 140 grain Nosler Partitions lets me know it does recoil, but it's not objectionable at all.
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The .257 Roberts has the lightest recoil, and the quietest report, least amount of muzzle blast.
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I have a 7mm-08 and .257 Bob, and I think the Bob kicks less. Not by a great deal but I can tell it in hunting loads with hunting weight bullets. FWIW
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I only shoot the 260.. but I can tell you this..
with a 100 grain ballistic tip, with an MV of 3350 fps out of a Ruger 77, when the Leupold scope is set on 3 to 5 power, I can shoot it without ever loosing sight picture thru the scope..
killed its first deer at 300 yds, and it was bang flop and I watched it drop dead in the scope... never lost sight picture of it during recoil...
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The 260 can also be loaded with the 100 grain Nosler Partition, and thus do anything that the 257 Bob will do.
If you are handloading, you can simply fiddle your loads up or down to get the recoil that you want. If you are not handloading, IMO the 257 and 260 are probably not the best choices.
For me, I run the 260, up, down, and in between.
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