the reason I'm not going to use it on the bear hunt isn't because of the recoil, it's because on Kodiak it's either raining or about to. It would be a shame to ruin the stock or have it change the zero. I like the 375 also. I shoot my 45-120 with some hotter smokeless loads and the 577. The reason I'm probably going to sell it is that I think it's worth more to someone else than to me to use as a shooter.