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<blockquote data-quote="Shawn Carlock" data-source="post: 429361" data-attributes="member: 4"><p>I looked back throught my 338 Edge notes from 2001, April. I water weighed ( not took what a program suggested they had ) the following:</p><p> </p><p>338 Edge 117.4 gr</p><p>338 Lapua 113.3 gr</p><p>338 Ultra 110.4 gr</p><p>340 WBY 101.0 gr</p><p>338 Win Mag 84.1 gr</p><p> </p><p>Of H2O.</p><p> </p><p>Also as a side note the case length of the 338 Edge is 2.820" (trim length) and the 338 RUM is 2.760". The 338 RUM also has a longer neck and effectivly has a case body length about .090" shorter then the Edge. This gives a 7-7.5 gr advantage to the Edge. The problem with advertised velocities is that we use H1000 and run about 2800-2850 from a 30" barrel. The Edge is easly capable of another 100+ fps by simply changing powder. However these powders are temperature sensitive, lack the tight ES or other issues. I would much rather give up a 100 fps to have ES in the single digits and have the same velocity (within 20 fps) form 20 to 100 degrees ( yes we tested it ). So what it really comes down to is that I like the combo we are using and believe it to be much better than the others as a whole package. Then we started into developing various rifle paltforms around the 338 Edge and are still in developement of a couple of very advanced platforms. Hope this clears up the case capacity issues. If you have any other Q's lets here them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shawn Carlock, post: 429361, member: 4"] I looked back throught my 338 Edge notes from 2001, April. I water weighed ( not took what a program suggested they had ) the following: 338 Edge 117.4 gr 338 Lapua 113.3 gr 338 Ultra 110.4 gr 340 WBY 101.0 gr 338 Win Mag 84.1 gr Of H2O. Also as a side note the case length of the 338 Edge is 2.820" (trim length) and the 338 RUM is 2.760". The 338 RUM also has a longer neck and effectivly has a case body length about .090" shorter then the Edge. This gives a 7-7.5 gr advantage to the Edge. The problem with advertised velocities is that we use H1000 and run about 2800-2850 from a 30" barrel. The Edge is easly capable of another 100+ fps by simply changing powder. However these powders are temperature sensitive, lack the tight ES or other issues. I would much rather give up a 100 fps to have ES in the single digits and have the same velocity (within 20 fps) form 20 to 100 degrees ( yes we tested it ). So what it really comes down to is that I like the combo we are using and believe it to be much better than the others as a whole package. Then we started into developing various rifle paltforms around the 338 Edge and are still in developement of a couple of very advanced platforms. Hope this clears up the case capacity issues. If you have any other Q's lets here them. [/QUOTE]
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