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Homer
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Re: 338 Win Mag
03/09/17 10:19 AM

G'Day Fella's,

Remington, I have owned a new Rem 700 in .338 Win Mag, since Remington first made the M700 in this chambering. I'm very happy with most aspects of this combination.
The .338 Win Mag is a great cartridge, and any factory ammo you can purchase, will be effective on any size Boar you can find, as long as you put the bullet in the chest cavity of the animal.

As to How Far you can shoot animals with it.
I always look at the fact that the difference in the Muzzle Velocity between the .338 Win Mag (@ 2700 fps), and the .338 Lapua Mag (@ 3000 fps) both with 250 grn bullets, is only 300 fps in my rifles.
So given this and the fact that some people shoot game animals at extreme distances with the Lapua Mag......., the Win Mag is only 300 fps behind the Lapua Mag.
Can I please suggest, that you do need to have a rifle that is capable of extremely good accuracy and also be capable of shooting extremely well your self, before you ever attempt shooting at any animal at long distance!

I have never fired factory ammo thru my various .338's (.338-06, .338 Win Mag, .340 Weatherby and .338 Lapua Mag), but only ever reloaded my own ammo for them.
In the case of the .338 Win Mag, I have only ever loaded up 200grn bullets at 3000 fps, and 250 grn at 2700fps.

Hope that helps

Doh!
Homer

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338 Win Mag	Remington	31/08/17 10:06 PM
Re: 338 Win Mag	Ripp	31/08/17 11:28 PM
Re: 338 Win Mag	Remington	01/09/17 01:23 AM
Re: 338 Win Mag	Ripp	01/09/17 01:38 AM
Re: 338 Win Mag	Remington	01/09/17 06:20 AM
Re: 338 Win Mag	Ripp	01/09/17 06:57 AM
Re: 338 Win Mag	Remington	02/09/17 01:25 AM
Re: 338 Win Mag	mckinney	02/09/17 11:43 PM
Re: 338 Win Mag	Homer	03/09/17 10:19 AM
Re: 338 Win Mag	NitroX	04/09/17 03:20 PM
Re: 338 Win Mag	264	03/09/17 05:02 PM
Re: 338 Win Mag	Remington	04/09/17 07:34 AM
Re: 338 Win Mag	NitroX	04/09/17 03:15 PM
Re: 338 Win Mag	Rule303	04/09/17 01:39 PM
Re: 338 Win Mag	DarylS	04/09/17 02:03 PM
Re: 338 Win Mag	Remington	04/09/17 03:42 PM
Re: 338 Win Mag	coll416	06/09/17 03:47 PM
Re: 338 Win Mag	Remington	07/09/17 01:22 PM
Re: 338 Win Mag	Remington	04/09/17 07:38 AM
Re: 338 Win Mag	mckinney	04/09/17 03:37 PM
Re: 338 Win Mag	Remington	07/09/17 01:30 PM
Re: 338 Win Mag	Ripp	08/09/17 12:01 AM
Re: 338 Win Mag	Remington	08/09/17 01:10 AM
Re: 338 Win Mag	NitroX	07/09/17 06:03 PM
Re: 338 Win Mag	Remington	09/09/17 02:27 AM
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Re: 338 Win Mag	NitroX	09/09/17 05:33 PM
Re: 338 Win Mag	Remington	09/09/17 08:41 PM
Re: 338 Win Mag	DarylS	10/09/17 03:00 AM
Re: 338 Win Mag	Ripp	12/09/17 11:02 PM
Re: 338 Win Mag	Remington	12/09/17 11:06 PM
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