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fastest 338 caliber?Build advice?
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<blockquote data-quote="Bravo 4" data-source="post: 224987" data-attributes="member: 8873"><p>MY answers to your questions;</p><p>1. Yes a big .338 hits hard way out there with the right bullets, but with the right bullets so does your .300RUM.</p><p>2. A big .338 bullet does make hits/misses easier to spot, if you have a spotter or the terrain/vegetation allows.</p><p>3. A bigger bullet or more power is not the answer to poor marksmanship.</p><p>4. The wind does not effect a 300gr SMK as much as commercial hunting bullets.</p><p>5. A properly place "smaller" bullet will drop game just as fast as a properly placed "bigger" bullet, refer back to #3.</p><p> </p><p>My 300gr .338EDGE loads will not fit in my factory magazine.</p><p> </p><p>You also wrote,"That way when I am walking all the way over to my dead trophy I know it is dead instead of thinking I hit it and hopefully taking up the blood trail where it entered the trees?"</p><p>Make sure it is down before you get up off the weapon. If it runs (and they can, even when hit with a 300gr bullet) stay on it as long as possible to see if it goes down or maybe you can hit it with another shot.</p><p> </p><p>My friend I don't want to sound like a know it all or be preachy but I read your post several times and a flag kept going up. A big .338 is <strong>NOT</strong> a magical deer/elk slayer. Most people get big magnum rifles because they think that when they pull the trigger something magically just dies. I too went through that stage about 15 years ago as a teen. What I learned is this- A poor shot from a .300mag (Win or Weatherby) will not kill as fast as a well placed .223. There is no magic bullet, the closest I've seen is a 750gr A-Max fired from a .50cal BMG.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bravo 4, post: 224987, member: 8873"] MY answers to your questions; 1. Yes a big .338 hits hard way out there with the right bullets, but with the right bullets so does your .300RUM. 2. A big .338 bullet does make hits/misses easier to spot, if you have a spotter or the terrain/vegetation allows. 3. A bigger bullet or more power is not the answer to poor marksmanship. 4. The wind does not effect a 300gr SMK as much as commercial hunting bullets. 5. A properly place "smaller" bullet will drop game just as fast as a properly placed "bigger" bullet, refer back to #3. My 300gr .338EDGE loads will not fit in my factory magazine. You also wrote,"That way when I am walking all the way over to my dead trophy I know it is dead instead of thinking I hit it and hopefully taking up the blood trail where it entered the trees?" Make sure it is down before you get up off the weapon. If it runs (and they can, even when hit with a 300gr bullet) stay on it as long as possible to see if it goes down or maybe you can hit it with another shot. My friend I don't want to sound like a know it all or be preachy but I read your post several times and a flag kept going up. A big .338 is [B]NOT[/B] a magical deer/elk slayer. Most people get big magnum rifles because they think that when they pull the trigger something magically just dies. I too went through that stage about 15 years ago as a teen. What I learned is this- A poor shot from a .300mag (Win or Weatherby) will not kill as fast as a well placed .223. There is no magic bullet, the closest I've seen is a 750gr A-Max fired from a .50cal BMG. [/QUOTE]
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