.338 Win Mag rifles

[tango2echo]

Buckskinner, that's a decent deal on your Ruger AW .338. If I could justify it we would be talking. With the smaller 130gr and 150gr bullets at around 2800-3000fps the .338 is a perfect deer round. I've taken a number of Whitetails, Muleys, and Blacktails with it, and it preforms about like a '06 when loaded correctly. You can always load a bigger caliber down, but not always a smaller caliber up.

T2E

 

[jim in Anchorage]

This is a bit off the post, but all this talk of recoil puzzles me. The only time you would be shooting a 338 would be[A]off the bench for load development or sighting in. shooting at game. For my bench work with the big stuff,I place a 25 lb shot bag between my shoulder and the butt. You loose some field of view in the scope because the eye relief is to far back,but who cares as long as you can see the crosshairs. I can shoot a 460 all day with this setup. Asfar as shooting at game,if you notice recoil at all you need to take up a new sport,or have your adrenal gland checked.

 

[SwampWolf]

I've had a Savage 116SE "Safari Express" chambered in .338 Winchester Magnum for the past fourteen years that I like a lot. It has a muzzle brake that can be turned on or off, "express" iron sights and is "controlled" round fed. I prefer the .338 Win. to the .300 Win. because it can use heavier bullets, has a flatter trajectory when using equivalent bullets and I can't tell much difference between the two in terms of recoil.

 

[Maverick223]

Or, using ballistic tables from Hornady 6th, and the Hornady 225 gr spire point bullet with a muzzle velocity of 2800 fps, we get this: Muzzle energy is 3916 ft lbs. With a 200 yard zero, midrange is +1.9" and drop at 300 is 8.2". Drop at 400 is 23'9".

Wow, it falls out of the sky at 399yds. P.S.: I think you may want to change that figure to 23.9".