Yep, magnum loads of powder exhausting at 4,300 fps add a significant recoil force to a rifle.
In my 7x57R combination gun, I will be shooting 140 grain at a max of 2,660, a 154-gr at 2,550, a 160-gr at 2,500, and a 120-gr at 2,750.
But if I found loads which shot to the sights with 120/2,650, and all the rest at 2,400, that would be enough for hunting deer out to 150 yards. And the recoil of a 140-gr with 38.5 gr Varget is pretty mild in any 7x57.
When my son was starting on deer, a friend of his was using a .243. I took my son and a friend of his with this other boy and his father, but for my son and his friend, I cooked up 120-g Nosler BTs at 2,650 fps. The friend with the .243 made several less-than-perfect shots and we had to trail deer. The 7mm-08 had the same recoil, much less muzzle blast, and my two young hunters rolled over deer with confidence with one shot at about 100 yards.
In my 7x57R combination gun, I will be shooting 140 grain at a max of 2,660, a 154-gr at 2,550, a 160-gr at 2,500, and a 120-gr at 2,750.
But if I found loads which shot to the sights with 120/2,650, and all the rest at 2,400, that would be enough for hunting deer out to 150 yards. And the recoil of a 140-gr with 38.5 gr Varget is pretty mild in any 7x57.
When my son was starting on deer, a friend of his was using a .243. I took my son and a friend of his with this other boy and his father, but for my son and his friend, I cooked up 120-g Nosler BTs at 2,650 fps. The friend with the .243 made several less-than-perfect shots and we had to trail deer. The 7mm-08 had the same recoil, much less muzzle blast, and my two young hunters rolled over deer with confidence with one shot at about 100 yards.