From what I hear the recoil is very slight, should be on line with the amount of recoil of a .243 so nothing to worry about. I opened a box of those beauties and the cartridge legnth is about half the size of a 30-06, prett sweet!

FYI, I never knew this but I logged on to www.remington.com , checked out the accessories link and found a synthetic stock that can be bought for the Model 7 but also discovered a better looking synthetic stock that can replace the fugly one (JMO)that'scomes withthe SPS. I'm starting to think here.........