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<blockquote data-quote="Long Time Long Ranger" data-source="post: 520109" data-attributes="member: 505"><p>The beauty of the big 338 bullets is any of them at 2000 fps has excessive energy to do the job. A 225 grain bullet going 2000 fps will kill anything and shoot through elk size game with the monometal bullet. Energy to spare with these big bullets so I am not concerned with energy at the ranges I would shoot.</p><p> </p><p>I plugged in the 252 grain .72 bc CE bullet with my accuracy load of 3280 fps. It is 2" better in a 10 mph wind at 1300 yards but drops 36 more inches. The 300 grain berger at 3064 fps is 4" better in a 10 mph wind at 1300 yards than the 252 grain but drops 71 more inches than the 225 CE bullet. At 5000 feet elevation where I live with all three zeroed 3" high at 100 yards the 225 drops 279" with 66" wind drift, the 252 drops 314" with 64" wind drift and the 300 Berger drops 350" with 60" wind drift. The 300 SMK drops 361" with 66" wind drift. Windage is all very close but the drops are quite a bit in favor of the 225 grain.</p><p> </p><p>If I was doing a specialty hunt going out over a mile I would go to the 300 grain CE bullet or maybe the 325 Rocky Mountain bullet if that bc over 1 is accurate. I have never shot that bullet to test bc so wouldn't know. </p><p> </p><p>I still like the light recoil of the 225 CE allowing me to shoot a little better with no concern about recoil in my 10 pound rifle. A big plus is not needing rails to over 1300 yards with this set up using my mil dot scope and setting my drops off the last mil dot. Every ounce I can take off my gun is a plus for a backpacker. Backpacking 15 rounds loaded with 300's is a lot heavier than 15 rounds at 225 grains each. Heck, I take food out of wrappers and combine it in zip locks to save weight backpacking and a bunch other stuff. What I do is very refined considering my hunting style to cover country glassing. If I could haul my gun on a horse or an atv I might come up with something different. With my weight rifle and for the way I hunt the 225 grain looks worth while to try for a season and see what happens. Performance on game is yet to be known so wait and see on that one.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Long Time Long Ranger, post: 520109, member: 505"] The beauty of the big 338 bullets is any of them at 2000 fps has excessive energy to do the job. A 225 grain bullet going 2000 fps will kill anything and shoot through elk size game with the monometal bullet. Energy to spare with these big bullets so I am not concerned with energy at the ranges I would shoot. I plugged in the 252 grain .72 bc CE bullet with my accuracy load of 3280 fps. It is 2" better in a 10 mph wind at 1300 yards but drops 36 more inches. The 300 grain berger at 3064 fps is 4" better in a 10 mph wind at 1300 yards than the 252 grain but drops 71 more inches than the 225 CE bullet. At 5000 feet elevation where I live with all three zeroed 3" high at 100 yards the 225 drops 279" with 66" wind drift, the 252 drops 314" with 64" wind drift and the 300 Berger drops 350" with 60" wind drift. The 300 SMK drops 361" with 66" wind drift. Windage is all very close but the drops are quite a bit in favor of the 225 grain. If I was doing a specialty hunt going out over a mile I would go to the 300 grain CE bullet or maybe the 325 Rocky Mountain bullet if that bc over 1 is accurate. I have never shot that bullet to test bc so wouldn't know. I still like the light recoil of the 225 CE allowing me to shoot a little better with no concern about recoil in my 10 pound rifle. A big plus is not needing rails to over 1300 yards with this set up using my mil dot scope and setting my drops off the last mil dot. Every ounce I can take off my gun is a plus for a backpacker. Backpacking 15 rounds loaded with 300's is a lot heavier than 15 rounds at 225 grains each. Heck, I take food out of wrappers and combine it in zip locks to save weight backpacking and a bunch other stuff. What I do is very refined considering my hunting style to cover country glassing. If I could haul my gun on a horse or an atv I might come up with something different. With my weight rifle and for the way I hunt the 225 grain looks worth while to try for a season and see what happens. Performance on game is yet to be known so wait and see on that one. [/QUOTE]
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