Yeah, Bob Hagel did like the 340..and the 378, and the 270 Wby among others. And I don’t think he spared the gas much. The load I mentioned above was very accurate though not max in my rifle, and true, it may not have offered anything above a 300 Wby or even a 300 Win, but it did it at lower pressures.
I’m not a “long range” guy anyway; meaning past five hundred yards which used to be long range before laser range-finders and dependable elevation turrets. And that is mostly the era I used it in. I knew the drops at three hundred, four, and five hundred yards and while “it knocked elk off their feet” sounds hyperbolic, I saw it time after time.
