Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles .338-06 real world effectiveness.

Gotta admit--that stock is so psychadelic that I actually like it.

Fell off a ladder working on a second story window at home, shattered my tibia and fibula x-ray Had my lower leg looking like shattered glass Had 13 metal rods connected to a carbon fiber fixator for a few months until my bones grew back enough for a couple of plates and 20 some screws to hold my leg together. Also got a fused right ankle out of the deal, so scrambling over rugged terrain is a bitch.

I have had two .338-06 rifles. One a beautiful 1903 custom. I felt the recoil on that one was a bit stiffer than a stoutly loaded .30-06 with 180s. The other was a rebored BAR. It was soft recoiling even with 250s. Most of my hunting was for deer and I found the 200 Speer plenty of bullet. I loaded one box of 210 NP. They were accurate and worked fine. I hunted that one for five or six years before becoming bored with it.

I never found cases to be much of a big deal. I use a tapered sizer to expand .30-06 necks to .338, load them then go hunting. Mine was the standard version. It was chosen over the improved version for simplicity.

I now have a 9.3x62 barrel for a Blaser, but I have not used it yet. I am confident that it will take anything in this hemisphere and the African farmers thought it enough gun there.

I confess that I kept my .338-06 dies. There could be another one.

Jack

Interesting...Bob West also built my 338-06 back in the day.. 1947 transition model 70 with a 25 inch Donnelly barrel.. A friend of mine that knew Bob was getting one built and I was able to get mine in on a twofer..

The Donnelly/West connection makes it a true Northwest rifle.

Embrace the busy stock.

358 win on top and 338-06 on bottom:

Sorry to hijack the thread JAH.

Forgot I had moved my X-rays from photobucket!

Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuch!

Wish you as speedy a recovery as possible.

Thanks but that was two years ago on Sep 29th, I'm pretty much recovered as I'm going to get.

There's no reason for a man over 50 to get on a ladder. I'm trying to hold that promise to myself.

Taylor,

glad they were able to piece ya back together....

hope you get use to having a leg like the Terminator...

that must have sucked to endure that..... I need to quit complaining
about my old age med problems.. which are more an irritation than
anything else...

not the bullet proof rock I use to be, but still am in a lot better shape
than a lot of other people my age...

YIPES - the X-rays remind me of the children's tale that goes "...and all the Kings men couldn't put Humpty back together again". Get well soon.
Homesteader. PS screw cleaning the gutters from a ladder !

Load 53 grains of Reloader 15 under a 210 Nosler and hunt.
You won't need anything else

+ 1

Or a 210 Scirocco II.

210 TTSX have never let me down on moose yet... I don't see it happening either.

Nice little round too.

Hard confirmed zero's to 600 yards. Don't think I"d take on a big moose much past 300 though personally with the round. In case I'd hit not quite what I wanted to, like hitting bone.

It has done well on neck/shoulder bones at 125 though... sitting under the hide off side still weighing 210...