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Thanks John. I'm sure Seafire will be along to correct his post. powdr
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Tankjock you may want to try some Rl17 with the 210gr Swift Scirocco. The bullet has a high BC and retains around 95%. I use the two in my 338-06AI. Accurate and great on game performance. RL17 has a gentle pressure curve as compared to most other powders. Good luck. Ditto my experience with 210 Scirocco and Re-17. Also Re-15 and 210 NPT or 215 SGK. Currently using CFE223 and 200 NAB. Good velocity and accuracy.
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Thanks for all the reply’s. I picked up 500 of the seconds Midway is selling this past weekend. I am pretty sure they are the Hornady 230 grain ELDX. For the price, “22cents” a bullet, i thought they would make good fire-forming and practice loads. Anyone have experience with these on game?
I loaded up 50 of them with 50 grains of Varget. Will see how they shoot. Hoping the rebored rifle returns this week.
Les Each to his own, but in my opinion fire forming is not needed with the 338-06. Just load for effect and go hunt.
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My best loads for my 338-06:
200gr Accubond or Ballistic Silvertip
Win Case,WLRM Primer
59.0grs of Big Game or 59.0grs of CFE223
These run a tad over 2800fps out of my rifle
210 Partition
Win Case,WLRM Primer
54.0grs Varget
This load runs a little over 2700fps out of my rifle
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As Bob Hagel would say"You should not use a rifle that will kill an animal when everything goes right; you should use one that will do the job when everything goes wrong."Good words of wisdom...............
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215 Sierra 55.5 VV N-140. 225 Hornady 53.7 I 4064. 250 Horn and Sierra 58.5 I-4350 . 210 Nosler Part. 55.5 Varget. 200 Ballistic Tip 54.6 I-4064
Benchmark barrel, 24" All shot well under an inch for 3 rounds Just tested Varget and Nosler 210 partitions and 55.5 grains was the sweet spot in my rifle as well. 2650 FPS and 3 of 4 almost touching w 1 flyer an inch out. With my bench skills, that’s about as good as I can shoot w a 9x scope at 100 yards. Loaded that same load w 2 different brass, 1 of each (nosler and Winchester) just for curiosity. WW brass was 15 grains heavier. Both rounds were touching at 100 so it’s nice to know that, in a pinch, I could load this charge in either brass and hunt without too much concern about impact differences.
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Whats the deal with all these reduntant, 200 grain 338-06 loads?? May as well be using a 30-06.
338-06 short (338 RCM)
20" barrel:
55 grains rl 16, 275 grain swift a-frame: 2280 fps
60 grains rl16, 225 grain fusion: 2550 fps
Factory 338 rcm 225 grain interbond loads: 2650 fps
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Thanks John. I'm sure Seafire will be along to correct his post. powdr Is 3 years later okay to correct a long lost post ????... H 380... 65 grains with a 200 gr SP Hornady 62.5 grains with a 225 gr SP Hornady and 60 grains with a 250 gr SP/ RN Hornady.... We have spell check... but no Load Check..... If anyone blew up a rifle following the wrong load info, my apologies unless they are/ were a democRat.
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“Owning guns is not a right. If it were a right, it would be in the Constitution.” ~Alexandria Ocasio Cortez
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Has anyone ever ran the 225gr SST in a 338-06? If so what powder did you go with ?
I just got a Rem 700 30-06 rebored by JES to 338-06. Got several options for bullets but I just picked up some of the 225gr SST to try.
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Good bullet on caribou, garbage bullet on even on smallish moose. My buddy shot a cow moose with the 225 sst back in 2014. Impact velocity was about 2550 fps. Helped him recover, and butcher. Shallow wound, massive fragmentation and tons of bloodshot meat all through the ribs and front quarter. ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/2y1JmMpB/image-71105.jpg)
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Good to know about the 225 SST. I've got some of those Hornady SST bullets but about a year and half ago I picked up a bunch of Speer Hot core 225gr 338 cal bullets for very reasonable price. Elk and black bear is about the largest animal to hunt. I've yet to use them as I've got a bunch of 30-06 work to do.
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Hey All,
I'm new to handloading AND the 338-06 I just got.
Is the ABLR 265 gr a viable bullet choice?
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