Actually, Mike, I'd rather have a rifle that was pleasant enough in recoil and blast to shoot it often. I'd be shooting better with the 7-08 than I would with a flinch-inducing, ear-stabbing, flame-belching magnum. And I'd just hold two inches higher and collect that trophy.
(If I shot at all. Four hundred yards is too far to shoot at an unwounded big game animal - especially if rushed, offhand and prodded by a guide.)
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