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.338 EDGE Brass?
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<blockquote data-quote="Long Time Long Ranger" data-source="post: 277571" data-attributes="member: 505"><p>Performance wise the difference in the individual barrels could make one faster than the other. There is really hardly any difference. The 340 wby is also right there maybe a 100 fps behind. When Remington introduced the 300 ultramag at the SHOT show Chris Dichter over at Pac-Nor got the specs off the 300 and immediatley got a reamer made in 338 using the same specs. I was building a lot of rifles in those days using Chris's barrels. We assumed Remington would be bringing out a 338 based off that case in the near future because that is what they said at the show. As for as I know Chris had the first 338-300 ultra reamer and I ordered 20 barrels chambered with it which were probably the first ones. So the 338-300 ultramag was started but later remington surprised everybody with a shorter case so it would better feed through the 700 action. Performance difference is trivial. We all found that the mistake actually shot pretty good and a number of other smiths around the country started chambering for it and some calling it by other names. I worked a lot with that case back then from 7mm through 375. All of them shot very well but do best in wby mk 5 actions. The lapua case came out about then and I started working with it quite a bit and modifying it since I had quite a few mk 5 actions lying around that I could easily make fit the lapua. I was trying to find a more efficient cartridge to replace my aging fleet of 338-378's I had been doing since 1979. Like Dave said they are all a wash. Any of them shoot very well and are excellent long range game killers. I ended up sticking with my 338-378's for the extra couple hundred fps they deliver.</p><p></p><p>I neck both ways depending on what I have on hand. I go through a 8mm die going up and come down through a 358 die. Those 358-300 ultras and 358-378 wby's are also great gamegetters. Just wish there were some good 358 bullets with high bc. I have two of each.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Long Time Long Ranger, post: 277571, member: 505"] Performance wise the difference in the individual barrels could make one faster than the other. There is really hardly any difference. The 340 wby is also right there maybe a 100 fps behind. When Remington introduced the 300 ultramag at the SHOT show Chris Dichter over at Pac-Nor got the specs off the 300 and immediatley got a reamer made in 338 using the same specs. I was building a lot of rifles in those days using Chris's barrels. We assumed Remington would be bringing out a 338 based off that case in the near future because that is what they said at the show. As for as I know Chris had the first 338-300 ultra reamer and I ordered 20 barrels chambered with it which were probably the first ones. So the 338-300 ultramag was started but later remington surprised everybody with a shorter case so it would better feed through the 700 action. Performance difference is trivial. We all found that the mistake actually shot pretty good and a number of other smiths around the country started chambering for it and some calling it by other names. I worked a lot with that case back then from 7mm through 375. All of them shot very well but do best in wby mk 5 actions. The lapua case came out about then and I started working with it quite a bit and modifying it since I had quite a few mk 5 actions lying around that I could easily make fit the lapua. I was trying to find a more efficient cartridge to replace my aging fleet of 338-378's I had been doing since 1979. Like Dave said they are all a wash. Any of them shoot very well and are excellent long range game killers. I ended up sticking with my 338-378's for the extra couple hundred fps they deliver. I neck both ways depending on what I have on hand. I go through a 8mm die going up and come down through a 358 die. Those 358-300 ultras and 358-378 wby's are also great gamegetters. Just wish there were some good 358 bullets with high bc. I have two of each. [/QUOTE]
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