First, let me welcome you to the forums. It's a good place to learn "stuff" about guns, reloading, hunting, and all that goes with it. Being kind of stuck on the 7mm guns, having hunted with and loaded for most all of them for deer-sized game and smaller basically, I also have to give a heavy recommendation to the 7mm-08. They are usually very accurate, recoil is modest, and they are fun to shoot. Just a good choice, in my opinion.