PS- in deference to your handicap, you will be allowed a "second" to load the correct ammo into your rifle.
PPS- I will not shoot with someone who is drinking.
Jeff, let it go. Don't let this turn into another "post your load" debacle. Out of 6 or 7 pages, I have to guess that you have whatever it was that you were looking for? Order up your junk and bolt this thing together. Start a new thread when you do.
R.
That's some sound advice...
PS, I went 9.3" 30" broughton, a-5 , 700 and 338 RUM
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Ping pong balls for the win. Once you've wrestled everything else in life is easy. Dan Gable I keep my circle small, I’d rather have 4 quarters than 100 pennies.
Ping pong balls for the win. Once you've wrestled everything else in life is easy. Dan Gable I keep my circle small, I’d rather have 4 quarters than 100 pennies.
The black n camo one. The SS n black is a 6.5/06 AI , that kills everything it's pointed at. The scopes are junk, dunno why I use em, but I do....
Ping pong balls for the win. Once you've wrestled everything else in life is easy. Dan Gable I keep my circle small, I’d rather have 4 quarters than 100 pennies.
...230 grain bullets at 3200fps. Brass is seasonal but if you are patient it can be had...
What kind of powder and charge are you using?
I've got a 30-378 Improved (holds 135 grains of water) and am fireforming still. However, I loaded up 5 fireformed cases with 101, 101.5, 102, 102.5, 103 grains of Retumbo and seated the bullets into the lands. I got the 230 grain Berger to 3150 fps with 103 grains of Retumbo, but the bolt was sticky. This danged Norma brass is so soft it's aggravating.
338 RUM, 250gr. Sierra Game king at 3,050 fps, meat from elk kill at 700 yards. It wears a new stock now, but the cartridge will run with a 338 LM, at cheaper costs. Gonna 338 RUM, and don't look back.
Sam, I actually have a very accurate .338WM. I like it a lot for what it is. The "Big .33's" up the game considerably; not so much because they'll kill anything more deader at normal ranges, but because that can drive the very high-BC bullets fast enough to have spectacular external ballistics, and to still expand at very extended ranges.
..... or that's the idea anyway. All theoretical at this point for me. Just going off what the users of these beasts say.
Tracking and following blood trails is for bowhunters and those with an irrational fear of recoil, dear gawd that horrifying thump on the shoulder .....
338 Edge 'N 300 gr Accubonds coated with ws2 at 2900 fps puts 'em down on the spot, Tracking ? Ah ain't got time fo dat shyte !
"The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants".
In Handloader #141 (Sep-Oct 1989) the .338-378 got 3160 fps from the 250 gr; that was with 26.8" barrel. Later, a 31" barrel got 200 fps better. You can view the article in the partial pdf display of that issue on the Handloader website.
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