My 338 was the first rifle that I really researched and bought with my hard earner dough, I was 17 at the time. Still have that rifle and it would be the last one to leave my safe if I ever had to sell them all. That rifle has made a believer out of many folks, I loan it out all the time and it seems to call the elk in and then they just tip over when they see it.
Of course, I hunted 13 years with it before killing anything with it. It was almost a joke, I'd let someone borrow it and I'd take my 300 Winnie, they'd shoot something that same day and I'd kill something with the 300, but never when I was packing the 338. It was saving up it's mojo for the moose in my avatar, 200 yards, 1 shot and a 10 yard track from there. The 338 just plain works.
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