After several weekends of testing out my new thumper, I couldn't be happier with my purchase AND for deciding against a brake. This heavy sonofagun has less recoil than any .300 I have had and groups the Hornady Superformance 180 gr. Interbonds AND SSTs better than anything else I tried (HSM/Berger, Barnes VorTx, to name a few). Will use the Interbonds for whitetail and have already taken several hogs with it last week--dropped 'em dead as a door knob. Just wanted to share....