The BLR rifles are incredibly good rifles, actually excellent rifles. I like the .308 Winchester (7.62 x 51 NATO) very much. The recoil is minimal and the cartridge can reach out and touch. I like the BLR Browning rifles, and also the old Savage 99 lever guns and the Winchester 88 guns. The older Marlin lever guns are also good rifles. Then, as you mentioned the .308 is easy to load for with a wide range of bullets and powders. Anyway, I never had a beefy shoulder and as I get older the larger cartridges are just punishing to shoot. I also noticed when my shots weren't where I wanted them with my 7mm Rem Mag it wasn't the rifle. I started anticipating the shots and began to flinch. Even knowing the problem I couldn't hold and squeeze which sucked. So that rifle now sits in the safe.Being a old M-14 guy my hunting rifle is a BROWNING BLR .308. Easy to shoot and reload.
To me the beauty of the .270 Winchester cartridge is how flat it shoots. I figure it this way, when a cartridge is approaching its 100 year birthday and still as popular as it was when it was released it has to be a really great cartridge. I would guess where you are, on the Georgia coastal areas that 30-30 would suit all of your hunting needs.Shooting the mighty .700 Nitro Express double rifle. 1,000 grain bullets moving at 2,000 feet per second. Round cost $125 per shot and the gun cost $250,000.
Many years ago, a couple of the local good ole boys here came into the hardware store and told the owner they wanted to buy the biggest rifle he had. Don told them he didn't have one in stock but he could get them a Winchester Model 70 Safari Express in .458 Wincheter Magnum. So the brothers put their money down and Don ordered the rifle. It can in a few weeks later and the brothers picked it up along with a box of shells for it. They came back the next day and told Don they wanted their money back. They only shot it once and it rattled the both of them pretty good and the other brother didn't even want to try shooting it. Not exactly what you would use around here for deer and hog hunting.
I've got a Ruger 77 in .270 (necked down 30-06) but with the brushy condition here did most of my hunting with an old Marlin 336 .30-30. That and my Belgian Browning A5 12 ga. Also carried my S&W 6" Stainless 686 in .357 with the old walnut target grips in a shoulder holster so I could get at in my chest waders. Never can tell when you will run up on a hog in swamp while duck hunting.
Ron