Here is my dilema, I am going to purchase another rifle in addition to my .257 roberts and my .270 win so I want a gunI can still use for whitetails 95% of the time and use for black bear, moose and sheep. The moose and sheep hunts would be once-twice in a lifetime type hunts so the majority of use would be black bear and whitetails. I hunt in NE pa. where a shot over 100 yards would be few and far between, in fact, most of my deer have been shot at around 40-70 yards.

I'm looking at the Tikka lite stainlessand I'm wondering how muchmore felt recoil the wsm would have?Will a good pad help enough to tame flinching? I don't want to install a muzzle break, I like my hearing too much.Is the .308 effective on bigger game? Is the .300 wsm too big for pa deer? The other option would be 30-06 or a 7mm mag but I'm more interested in some opinions on these two rounds for now.

I could be cheesy about the whole thing and buy the .308 and borrow my friends .300 wsm for the moose hunt (he's offered many times for me to shoot and borrow for any trips I might take). All suggestions are greatly appreciated.