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Why a 338?
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<blockquote data-quote="Lefty7mmstw" data-source="post: 880046" data-attributes="member: 48043"><p>Why not... It's no secret that as you ascend in bore diameter you wil get more energy and a correspondingly higher "KO" factor at range given a similar form factor bullet and usable velocity. I choose to shoot larger cased 7's and 30"s because my main game is mule deer and I'll flatten a mule deer with a 7 or 30 further out than I'm comfortable shooting any day of the week and twice on Sunday. As the game gets bigger the persuasion needs to get correspondingly bigger to have similar effect. I think a big 35 cal may be a better ticket than the 338 cal, but the bullet selection for lr is abysmal and the average barrel twists in 35 cal are much to slow to spin a decent bc bullet anyway.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lefty7mmstw, post: 880046, member: 48043"] Why not... It's no secret that as you ascend in bore diameter you wil get more energy and a correspondingly higher "KO" factor at range given a similar form factor bullet and usable velocity. I choose to shoot larger cased 7's and 30"s because my main game is mule deer and I'll flatten a mule deer with a 7 or 30 further out than I'm comfortable shooting any day of the week and twice on Sunday. As the game gets bigger the persuasion needs to get correspondingly bigger to have similar effect. I think a big 35 cal may be a better ticket than the 338 cal, but the bullet selection for lr is abysmal and the average barrel twists in 35 cal are much to slow to spin a decent bc bullet anyway. [/QUOTE]
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