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300 Win Mag or 338 Win Mag
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<blockquote data-quote="SSG Graybush" data-source="post: 2542319" data-attributes="member: 115190"><p>I would look at the 33 Nosler, not that I hate belts, I dont. I am starting one for a intermediate range brown bear country rifle with a 160 or 185 gr ttsx. Should be around 3000-3200 fps so pretty flat to 600-700 yards. Decent ballistics. Only reason am switching from a 300 wm to 33 Nosler is..... I can. The 300 wm has been great but the 33 Nos has a better case and is kinda a medium sized case for a 33 caliber. The case has no belt, a steeper shoulder, a longer neck and the case length is shorter/fatter making more room for a long bullet in a standard mag length action. So the sum of all made me want to try it. I will get a 9T barrel incase I want to shoot a heavier bullet, I would do that for any 30 or 33 cal, a 9T. But of the 2 you mentioned, I would say to run the ballistics with whatever bullet you are considering and see what performs better. Adding bullet weight adds energy and usually better bc's but also adds recoil. Figure which will give you 1200#'s of energy and acceptable ballistics at whatever distance you want to get to and go from there. I try to keep the recoil as low as possible. And remember dift over drop for long range. Drop is easier to control. And a higher bc bullet carries/kepts energy. But after all that I go 300 prc over the 300 wm in 30 cal and the 33 Nosler over the 338 win mag. Cheers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SSG Graybush, post: 2542319, member: 115190"] I would look at the 33 Nosler, not that I hate belts, I dont. I am starting one for a intermediate range brown bear country rifle with a 160 or 185 gr ttsx. Should be around 3000-3200 fps so pretty flat to 600-700 yards. Decent ballistics. Only reason am switching from a 300 wm to 33 Nosler is..... I can. The 300 wm has been great but the 33 Nos has a better case and is kinda a medium sized case for a 33 caliber. The case has no belt, a steeper shoulder, a longer neck and the case length is shorter/fatter making more room for a long bullet in a standard mag length action. So the sum of all made me want to try it. I will get a 9T barrel incase I want to shoot a heavier bullet, I would do that for any 30 or 33 cal, a 9T. But of the 2 you mentioned, I would say to run the ballistics with whatever bullet you are considering and see what performs better. Adding bullet weight adds energy and usually better bc's but also adds recoil. Figure which will give you 1200#'s of energy and acceptable ballistics at whatever distance you want to get to and go from there. I try to keep the recoil as low as possible. And remember dift over drop for long range. Drop is easier to control. And a higher bc bullet carries/kepts energy. But after all that I go 300 prc over the 300 wm in 30 cal and the 33 Nosler over the 338 win mag. Cheers. [/QUOTE]
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