It depends on how the rifle fits you. I have had three 300 Mags. Two Win Mags and one Weatherby Mag. The 700 Remington was not to bad. The Savage kicked like a mule. The Weatherby was a stiff kicker too. As said above, in the summer in a T shirt from the bench they are no fun. There are however good wearable pads and good recoil pads you can get. I don' t know how old you are now but those cannons hurt old shoulders much more than they did my younger shoulder. I will never shoot that kind of gun again unless I was hunting something that really required that kinf of force on both ends. Right now I don' t know what that would be. Good Hunting!