Which would you prefer in your .338win, Or in all reality, does it not make much difference?

It would probably not make any diffefrence, but I am heavy bullet kind of guy. Both are good bullets.

Which does your rifle shoot better? I'd choose whichever it likes best.

My A-bolt likes failsafes, so I used a 230 grain failsafe on mine. One shot from ~200 yards distance tipped him over.

My eland was shot at 220 yards with a single 180 gr. fail safe bullet in .300 WSM. Did the job.

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Originally posted by Woodjack:
Which would you prefer in your .338win, Or in all reality, does it not make much difference?

I shot my eland with a .338 Win. Mag. using 230 gr. Fail Safes. It was about a 60 - 70 yard double lung shot. The bullet blew straight through the animal with no apparent expansion which is my experience with this round regardless of shot placement. I don't use them anymore.

I have used the 250 and 210 Nosler on Eland, they worked fine, but my favorite bullet for eland with the .338 is the 300 gr. Woodleigh, and the more I use that big woodleigh bullet the more impressed I become...I love it on Elk. It is truly a hammer.

I shot my eland with a .338 Win. Mag. using 230 gr. Fail Safes. It was about a 60 - 70 yard double lung shot. The bullet blew straight through the animal with no apparent expansion which is my experience with this round regardless of shot placement. I don't use them anymore.[/QUOTE]

I won't use them either for the same reason.

I had a bad experience with Failsafes in my 375 H&H and now the remainders are paper punchers only.

I have never had a problem with Swift A-Frame, they are my Bullet of choice. CHEERS

Eland just aren't that tough to kill if you use good bullets and shoot well. In Tanzania, I shot a Patterson's eland at a little less than 300 yds. with a 180 gr. Fail-Safe out of my 300 Win. Mag. It hit him through both lungs, and he ran less than fifty yards and fell over. The bullet was just under the hide on the opposite side, and his lungs were blown to smithereens. I fail to see how he could have been done-in a whole lot better by much of anything else. If a 180 F-S out of a 300 Win. will work, surely a 230 gr. F-S out of a 338 Win. will perform at least as well...........

In the 338 Win. Mag., I just can't see the need for any bullet heavier than 250 grs., and the Fail-Safe is so ruggedly constructed that it makes most 250 gr. loadings obsolete.

Next year, I've already decided that I'm going to take my 338 Win. Mag. and ammo loaded Barnes 225 gr. TSX bullet to Zimbabwe. Eland will be on the menu, and no, I'm not the least bit concerned as to whether or not the 225 TSX will be enough projectile for any plainsgame situation that I might run into........

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