Quote Originally Posted by olddav View Post
I'm sure it goes without saying, but the same applies to the 7mm mag. (300wm, 338wm, 458wm among others)
I am too much of a whimp to play with these but you may enjoy being hit with a hammer.
For me it is not the recoil but the barrel life of those rounds. Recoil can be managed. But a rebarrel after 1000-2000 rounds, and the added cost for not a lot of extra pop (talking the inside 200 yard playground) the short action gets the nod.

If I hunted in plains states the magnum would make sense.