I have spent many days on the silhouette range with many of my rifles and I have no fear of the recoil of the magnums for hunting. Since I wore out my old 308 silhouette rifle, I have setteled on the 6.5x55 for my long range gun. I do not however like to take shots past 250 yards because of all the things that can effect those long range shots. I will pass up most shots past that range. Thats sort of my comfort zone for a clean kill. I have a blind complete with shooting bench on the farm where I do 90 percent of my hunting.