My wife has a model 70 Featherweight, 7mm WSM, that shoots great, with moderate recoil. It's been shortened and has a trap style recoil pad, handles like dream, and shoots the first round, on a clean barrel, to the same point of impact as the second, third and so forth. I take it on "pack in trips, as it is light and gets the job done. I took a herd bull with it some years back, so it's got plenty of steam behind it.