Fun with the 338

I’m new to the 338 so still learning.
Bought some 200 grain Combined Technology Ballistic Silver Tips.
Tried a couple loads with Reloader 19 before and decided to try some IMR 4831.
71 Grains went 1.87”
74 Grains went .67”

I have no plans to use this on elk but might make a good deer load.

This gun has probably got the best trigger set up of all my rifles. The first shot of a session catches me by surprise if I haven’t shot it for a while.
Fun gun to shoot.







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Try 225gr Swift A-Frames with 71grs of IMR4350 and a Fed 215 primer at 3.296" OAL. Win or Hornady brass worked better(more FPS and lower SD) than Nosler brass.
Super accurate and deadly

Nice shooting. If you seat the bullet deeper in .005" increments, you should be able to walk that flier into the group.

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I’d run that bullet into any bull elk walking. It’ll work just fine. It won’t do much different than a 210 Partition.

A LH buddy of mine borrowed my .338 on a bull elk hunt we were on a few years ago. I used a 200 X to take a nice bull at the head waters of the Yampa. We hastily moved camp to a unit he held a bull tag for on the Laramie. Next morning, in the predawn darkness, he grabbed some 200 ballistic tips that shot the same point of impact as the Barnes 200's by mistake. He took a bull quartering away from him at first shooting light. It angled through the liver, into the lungs and broke the opposite shoulder. It really did the job!