You might want to try looking at the www.longrangehunting.com website. Those guys have a lot of information on the 338 Lapua, 338 Edge and 338 RUM as long range hunting rifles. There seem to be several gunsmiths that log on there that build rifles in those calibers also.
Posts: 763 | Location: Montana | Registered: 28 November 2004
I have a 338RUM Rem 700 LSS (Stainless). Dropped it into a McMillian adjustable hunter stock and bedded it. Shoots just liek the previous post with 225gr AB's and RL25.
Great rifle, lots of fun, but does take a bit between shots to cool, thats for sure! And it WILL rattle your teeth!
I have a 338 RUM that started life as a stainless M700 with the cheap composite stock. It now wears a bedded boyds laminate and is a veritable death ray. It shoots the factory and my reloads very well.
I bought the first 338 RUM I saw and started reloading for it before there was much of any data available for the round. Settled on 91 grains of Reloader 25 and a 250 grain Partition.
Later, I put another together using a take-off barrel and a 700 action that was originally a 300 Win Mag.
Both are gone now, but I ordered a Lilja barrel yesterday to built one on a Winchester action.
Perhaps oddly, it is the only UltraMag I really have any interest in.
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Posts: 1372 | Location: USA | Registered: 18 June 2000
Originally posted by McCray: I bought the first 338 RUM I saw and started reloading for it before there was much of any data available for the round. Settled on 91 grains of Reloader 25 and a 250 grain Partition.
Later, I put another together using a take-off barrel and a 700 action that was originally a 300 Win Mag.
Both are gone now, but I ordered a Lilja barrel yesterday to built one on a Winchester action.
Perhaps oddly, it is the only UltraMag I really have any interest in.
McCray: Mine loves RL25 enough I haven't tried any other powder. I was wondering if you happened to give RETUMBO a whirl? I tried it in my 300RUM (same type of accuracy as 338RUM) and 180/200grainers were good to go.
Please post after you get the Leija on there! Auta be fantastic.
JD338, Wow, great grouping and all that power. I loaded 250 grain Barnes X out of my Brno 602 375H&H to 2900 fps and used it on deer. It was impressive at both ends.
I can only imagine these fast 338's being even better. Bloody marvelous.
Posts: 41 | Location: Melb, Australia | Registered: 10 June 2006
I started loading RL 22 for the 200 gr and 210 gr PT with excellent accuracy and velocity. The 225 gr AB and PT loads were accurate but velocity suffered until I switched to RL 25. I also shot the 250 gr PT with RL 25 and again accuracy was excellent but the velocity was not up to its full potential.
I tried Retumbo with the 250 gr PT and my accuracy was .5" with an avg MV of 3024 fps.
I used the same load with the 250 gr AB and the velocity dropped a little but accuracy is sub .5 MOA so I let it at that. I also worked up the same load for my buddy's M700 XCR and the results were similar. Accuracy was .7-.9" but I think the cheap Nikon Buckmaster scope is part of the problem.
Give Retumbo a try and you will be pleased with the results.
I had a 338 RUM in a Brown Precision custom rifle. It would do 1/2" all day with Remington factory 250gr Swift A-Frames. It's one of the rifles I sold, and much later thought to myself..."what the "F" was I thinking?"
Posts: 20173 | Location: Very NW NJ up in the Mountains | Registered: 14 June 2009
Originally posted by Mikelravy: Obviously a devastating caliber but I can't help but wonder what it is really intended for.
A mate of mine has hs 338 RUM in Africa at the moment and for its third time. On previous trips he has had 257 Wby, 7mm STW and 300 Winchester and since his 338 RUM is on its third trip, what does that tell you He has shot plains game up to and including giraffe and eland. Edit: I just noticed I had typed elephant
They undoubtedly are very effective. What I meant was that there doesn't seem to be a lot of situations where that much range and power are necessary. And of course the recoil is too much for most.
Posts: 3174 | Location: Warren, PA | Registered: 08 August 2002
My partner has a beauty which started as a 7STW on a Winny sts Classic action and was built by the late Dana Campbell of "Mountain Rifles-Alaska". He bought it here in Vancouver, BC and had it re-barreled with a Lilja and I have loaded for him; it puts the bullets OUT THERE!
The rifle is longer and heavier than I care for and I would have built a plain old .338WM on it, but, each to his own. If, I were to get a .338" bore rifle, other than the several .338WMs I now have and love, it would be a .338RUM, no question.
But, I am goin going the other way and almost any hunting I care to do is easily accomplished with the rifles I have now.
Posts: 2366 | Location: "Land OF Shining Mountains"- British Columbia, Canada | Registered: 20 August 2006
Originally posted by Mikelravy: They undoubtedly are very effective. What I meant was that there doesn't seem to be a lot of situations where that much range and power are necessary. And of course the recoil is too much for most.
In my opinion the 30-06, 300 Win, 338 Win and 375 H&H are for "hunters" The 300 RUM and 338 RUM, the 30-378, 338-378 and 378 are for the guns and ammo enthusiasts who also shoot animals.
Originally posted by Cary Howard: Hey guys, I am wanting to buy a 338 RUM and I was just wondering if anyone had any advice on what kind to get.
Not sure if they're still being made but Remington 700 APR were nice rifles. Make sure you really want one because selling one in this caliber will be very difficult.
He has shot plains game up to and including giraffe and eland. Edit: I just noticed I had typed elephant 