I shot a Browning A bolt in 300WSM last summer and although I had nothing to compare it against right at that time, I can tell you the recoil after firing several shots was enough to discount it off my list with my bad shooting wing. I ended up going with a 7 rem mag and i can shoot it comfortably, which leads to accuracy for me. About the only real benifit I see is a shorter action and some lighter weight rifle options. I don' t see any real benefits for recoil or ballistically from it' s standard long action brothers. Like somebody else said it is all Hype and sugar coated to get us to buy a new/better gun. When in fact our existing ones work just fine and produce similar results.....but that just don' t sell![:' (]