I've never shot a xbolt but I do have a Remington 700 in 300 win mag and have shot Remington 700's in 30-06 and the recoil is a good bit more if you don't have a really good recoil pad. Now my 300 has a limbsaver recoil pad on it now big diffrence it feels about like my tikka 30-06 just alot louder. If you can handle a 7mag you can handle a 300