Seyfried despises the Rums, I see a need for them in my battery.
Calvin,
Ross has them in his personal battery also. The very first .338 G&A was built for him (to his specs) by Dakota and technically used what was to become the .300 RUM case but with the .338 bullet.
At the same time Ross designed the .338 G&A (from the .460 G&A) there was also a chamber drawing made for the.300 G&A using exactly the same case. When Ross showed me the chamber drawing I asked if he was going to also build a rifle in the .300 G&A and he laughed and said �What�s the point if I have the .338 G&A?�
I remember we were shooting some other stuff one day and he wanted to double check the zero on his .338 G&A before leaving for an elk hunt in Montana. He fired three shots from a cold bore at a 2 inch orange dot at 200yds and had three hits in the dot. Group was just over an inch. 225 gr bullets @ 3200fps. I don�t remember if the bullets were Failsafes or X bullets.
I think where Ross started to change his opinion was in guiding hunters who also were fans of his writing. He really promoted horse power in the late 80s/early 90s articles for Gun and Ammo but based those articles on his own shooting ability, which really is at a whole different level from the average hunter. I suspect seeing quite a few guys show up at his ranch with big cartridges (the ones he wrote about) but unable to actually hit an elk has moderated his opinion and recommendations on elk cartridges.
