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<blockquote data-quote="DTF370" data-source="post: 2712349" data-attributes="member: 115086"><p>The 338 (250 gr and up generally) is a phenomenal bullet for long range and ELR. Once upon a time, my hope was to build a short barrel magnum that was pretty light. The problem is with time my I realized my hopes were contradictory. I totally feel where you are coming from.</p><p></p><p>Your hopes of building a short 338 that can shoot 1/2 minute? Totally doable. Can you make a mild recoiling version? Of course this is much more dependent on which cartridge. Let's say for instance you are looking at the 338 lapua. I'm not sure you can reduce to 270-like recoil but you might get close.</p><p></p><p>The contradictory portion of your hopes (again, I was in the same boat) is your performance expectations. Large magnums (or any magnum honestly) will need the extra barrel length to get to "magnum" velocity. Specifically, an 18" 338 lapua will drop under 1800 fps around 600 yards. 1800 fps is generally the minimum impact velocity for proper bullet expansion, which to me is very important to hunting. With this, I think ballistically you wouldn't be gaining much if anything over your PRC. I regularly hunt whitetail with a 338 Lapua AI and although it is an absolutely oversized cartridge for this game, you can not only rely on the sheer size to give you "bang-flop" results.</p><p></p><p>A general rule with long range shooting (even more so with long range hunting) is longer barrels mean longer distances and short barrels mean shorter distances.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DTF370, post: 2712349, member: 115086"] The 338 (250 gr and up generally) is a phenomenal bullet for long range and ELR. Once upon a time, my hope was to build a short barrel magnum that was pretty light. The problem is with time my I realized my hopes were contradictory. I totally feel where you are coming from. Your hopes of building a short 338 that can shoot 1/2 minute? Totally doable. Can you make a mild recoiling version? Of course this is much more dependent on which cartridge. Let’s say for instance you are looking at the 338 lapua. I’m not sure you can reduce to 270-like recoil but you might get close. The contradictory portion of your hopes (again, I was in the same boat) is your performance expectations. Large magnums (or any magnum honestly) will need the extra barrel length to get to “magnum” velocity. Specifically, an 18” 338 lapua will drop under 1800 fps around 600 yards. 1800 fps is generally the minimum impact velocity for proper bullet expansion, which to me is very important to hunting. With this, I think ballistically you wouldn’t be gaining much if anything over your PRC. I regularly hunt whitetail with a 338 Lapua AI and although it is an absolutely oversized cartridge for this game, you can not only rely on the sheer size to give you “bang-flop” results. A general rule with long range shooting (even more so with long range hunting) is longer barrels mean longer distances and short barrels mean shorter distances. [/QUOTE]
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