I had a .338 Win Mag #1A that was awfully nice for big North American game. I shot a friend's .375 H&H #1 Tropical and I thought it handled awfully well. Recoil was heavier than the #1A .338 but the gun design was different. Recoil was certainly not of a sort that most fellows couldn't learn to manage it. The #1 and the .375 H&H seem to go together awfully well. A nice balance between power and manageability.