Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Long Range Hunting Is the .338 lapua really the ultimate long distance round?

First you tell joe to get"[bleep]" and now you insult me. I guess that is how you try to make up for your lack of knowledge and class.

Unreal isn't he, just keeps sinking lower and lower . The link work last night and when I posted it. I guess if it's not working for some do a search for Remington Military and you will find it there.

Some people hate to be wrong no matter how much proof to the contrary one can provide. That Remington rifle has been available for quite some time. A search on longrangehunting.com should turn up a thread by a guy that ran one through its paces shortly after they were available. mtmuley

If folks can't get to the link, here is the ad and most of the pics:

Extremely rare and hard to find.

New in Box Remington Model 700 Police 338 Lapua bolt action rifle. It has a black synthetic stock, a 40x adjustable trigger, built in muzzle break and it comes with 2 (two) 4 round detatchable magazines.

Barrel length 26 inches

Order number 25645

Mine is the 2008 Remington factory version with HS DBM. Model M700P MLR 338 Lapua Mag and order #25645.

xphunter, Is the 338 Lapua Remington action the same overall length as a regular 700 Long Action, or is it based on a new size?................DJ

Same length as the standard long action. The bolt face is opened up and they have a sako style extractor.

I just posted the pics from the Gunbroker site to show that Remington really makes a 338 L Rifle. Some folks said they couldn't get the link, so I copied the the pics and posted them here to settle the discussion.

I'm sorry, but I do not know the answer to your question.
I do not even own one center-fire rifle of any kind

All this flap over a DOD sniper round. There are several commercial (starting with the .340 Wea Mag) cartridges in this caliber and velocity clatch already. The .340 Wea Mag and the .338 RUM both meet the criteria for accuracy, bullet weight and velocity of the military request.

For the average marksman or shooter, these rifles are expensive novelties that will never have more than a small dedicated following of militaria buffs and those who truly wish to hunt with a high performance rifle.

I always thought I was above average, and now, according to you, I find out I am!

Thanks?

R.

Hahaha + 1

Interesting. It seems like it would be tough to get that fat of a round to feed well in a std. 700 action. Are the magazines single stack?......................DJ

They are center feed.

You can buy a .340 Bee or a .338 RUM and get almost verbatim the same performance. Whe would one pay the whopping premium for a proprietary case that gets less then 50 fps per bullet weight (if you are a handloader.

Plus, I like my rifles with a certain amount of style and maybe a nice walnut stick to look at. I have (3) tupper ware stocks and they do nothing for me esthetically, compared to the 9-10 walnut stocks that I own. I would much rather have a wood stocked Mark V Deluxe.

I guess that is a sign of age. I care about my esthetic tastes more than conventional marketing trends.

A 340 Weatherby??? and pay the whopping premium for a proprietary case.

.........And not be as good of brass as Lapua's is....................DJ

Not to metion no useless belt and no silly radius shoulder to deal with

That is what I am thinking.

Hornady is making $1 a piece 338Lapua brass now. Hoping to get some soon.

I am fooling with a RUM right now and the 240SMK will go over 2700 and is still about 1100 or so at one clean mile.

That is mo better than any of my optics or range finders will do so I am over driving my headlights so to speak right now.

I like the 300 RUM very much. From what I read from the Sierra manual that 240SMK is as good as any 338 Lapual load I have noticed as I compare the trajectory tables on EXBAL.

I hope to shoot this factory barrel out real soon and get a 30" AI set up going. That ought to do it for me.

The down side to the 300 RUM is brass quality and availability as compared to the 338 Lapua.