I bought my X7 after season last year. I love it. I havent hunted with it yet. Its a nice little compact rifle. Its not much fun to shoot from the bench. Its kinda short & recoil is a bit stiff. Im shooting 180 grain Gold Dots over 70 grains of BH209. & 200 grain SSTs over the same charge. This last week The SSTs gave me a .40X .85 hole,3 shot group. Thats outside to outside. The GDs gave me about 1.5. When I shoot the bigger bullets & bigger charges. recoil gets a bit stiff.