Low recoil and very accurate, it is only 200fps behind the 7mm rem mag, and also being 7mm it benefits from the wide selection of bullet weights and the modern bullets such as berger vlds. They usually have a 8-9 twist so can stabilise bullets upto 180 grns, I am confident in mine out to 600 metres and can usally hit a 14" gong at 850 metres (sometimes). Commercially loaded bullets found throughout europe, russia, africa, south america and aus/nz, not so common in the UK but most gunshops can get them in.
I bought mine for mainly for chamois hunting and other mountain species.