RE: managed recoil ammo
Elgallo, I highly recommend the Managed Recoil ammo. When I bought my Rem 710 three years ago, I bought it in .30-06 because Remington had just come out with the Managed Recoil ammo. I knew I then had a calibre that both my son (15 now) and daughter (13 now) could shoot as well as a rifle I could use to hunt just about anything by using "full-power" ammo.
I would definitely say the adverstised reduction in recoil is true. In fact, since I hunt in some woods where I don't shoot more than 50 yards, I will probably use the Managed Recoil myself - why beat myself up? And since I don't regularly practice shooting past 200 yards, I'm not sure that I just won't stick with it all the time.
We've taken two deer using the Managed Recoil ammo, but I haven't ever bothered to recover bullets for analysis. All I can tell you is that they've worked fine in the two cases I've been able to use them.