I walked into a small local gun shop to buy a pound of powder, walked out with a Savage 110, .338 WinMag. lh. First thing i noticed was it was hardly used. After getting it home the second thing I noticed was the stock was cracked between the action screws. At the time Savage used a very light colored wood for its stocks and the crack was hard to see. I had a good friend who worked for Winchester and claimed that in the Mod. 70 the .338 was a notorious stock breaker. The gun shop fixed the break for free, and I looked for a fiberglass stock. Ended up with a Lee Six unfinished stock that we filled and sanded and painted black. The recoil of my hand-loads was to say brisk and I never could master that rifle. Something about the recoil speed or something, but I sold it after a couple years and picked up a 30-06. If you can shoot it its a great caliber.
