Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Ask The Gunwriters 338 FEDERAL...Popularity? Experience?

If you put a 300-yard limit on things it does, I guess, level the field some.

But I personally won't settle for a RIFLE-imposed 300 yard limit. If conditions, or my own shortcomings, impose that limit on a given day in the field- fine. But for a general-purpose hunting gun I won't accept my hardware imposing such a limit.

Plus- wind drift is what gets you, and I can promise you those light .33's at moderate launch speeds are getting blown around pretty good!

Check this out. 7-mag shooting a 160 Accubond at 3000 fps, vs. the 338Fed with a 200-gn Accubond at 2650 fps. Obviously all this does is show what we already know- that the 338F is a short- to medium-range round- but since others are comparing it to a 7-mag....