The best thing that could happen to the 338 Federal is a short action with 3.00" usable cartridge COL
I agree with that. I've gone to lighter pills(180BT, 200IL, 185Sp, 160TTSX) in my T3 as the longer bullets rob way too much capacity for the short mag length and MV suffers. I did the bolt stop and mag swap for a while and that helps tremendously, but the lighter pills are more than ample for what I use the cartridge for(WT and hogs).
