I sold my 45-70 to my brother, and was planning on keeping on reloading for him. He does not, however, appreciate the recoil of my load I had worked up. I was loading an Accurate bullet (460-415V or something like that) to about 1550-1600 fps. That was more than he wanted to put his shoulder through. I think I have 2 choices here...load that 415 grain lower, or get some bullets in the 300-350 grain range and run those at 1500 fps or so. Application, this is strictly a hunting rifle. Max shot somewhere in the 150 yard range. Species will be mainly Pa whitetail, but he does want capability of taking it black bear hunting. I am seriously considering option B since if I load the 415 grainers down, I may need to use fillers, which I do not want to do. So I guess my question is 2 prong, which option do I do, and what is needed for my application? I am thinking either a 300 at 1500fps or the 415 at 1200 fps should do what I need it to do.