It's a great round! You could hunt any animal in North America and not be undergunned. Load it with 180's and you have a great deer gun. Saw my dad shoot a whitetail at 300 yards with one a few years back. Not saying it's a good long range gun, as it's not. But if needed it can reach to 300, but that is about tops for it. Really should keep them under 250. Like KonaBoy said, it's about like an 06 far as recoil goes. Buy it, you'll love it!!!