Swiftshot, I am going to purchase that same Savage rifle. I have handled one and it's a great set-up. I already have a 7prc and a 300wsm in custom rifles so one of them will be my choice in this folding chassis set-up, but its a tough choice. I am leaning towards the 300wsm simply because of the wider range of heavier bullet choices and loaded ammo choices. Also the ease of finding ammo if I lose mine. Both are longer range hammers. From a recoil perspective there really isn't much difference between them and suppressed shouldn't be an issue at all. I love and have multiple 300WM's but not for this application. For my purpose, I want nothing less than a 6.5prc even though it's not one of my choices, however it's enough for elk/moose and I don't care what the RS 223 and 6mm crowd thinks. I don't like "marginal" for the big stuff. If you bump a large bear nothing in your hands is going to feel like it's enough but I sure would rather it not be a 223. Like you, I only want to do this once as it's a 3 grand purchase.