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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Calvin45" data-source="post: 3095888" data-attributes="member: 109862"><p>Regarding your question of comparing the two, again I don't shoot a .338 but I will say both of the .300 win mags I've had have been 1:10 twists and neither of them were particularly fond of bullets lighter than 180 grains and really shone/shine with 195+ grain bullets.  The 225 grain eld m in my savage is the one ragged hole load I mentioned, the old 220 grain round nose bullets actually shot cloverleafs out of the vanguard.  I'm a fan of a full or even compressed load of slow burning powder with heavy for caliber bullets in that cartridge.  The 225 eld m is in Winchester brass crushing 78 grains of the regrettably discontinued imr 8133.  The 220 round nose bullets were either imr7828 or rl25, can't remember.  They're a similar burn rate tho.</p></blockquote><p></p>