Years ago I had a gunsmith buddy of mine screw a 338 WM barrel on a 700 action, then I had Bob and lone Wolf stock it with a Summit. Whole rifle went 7 3/4 pounds all up, and it was a handful... I ended up selling it to Uncle Gus, who still uses it and lends it to clients. He never noticed that you can't kill everything there is to kill in Montana with a rifle that isn't a CRF
My big bitch was, it was a blued action with a stainless barrel, and I never noticed game shot with it was any deader than the 30-06 I was using....
Then my buddy Ed decided that he needed a hunting rifle (he has about two of everything any country ever fought a war with) He called me up and said, "If you were going to kill everything with one rifle, and mostly after Elk, can you see anything wrong with the logic that a 338 WM Montana 8400 will handle it all???" I said, "I bet it'd kill the hell out of Antelope too"
It does spooky things with 225 Accubombs and good old IMR4831
