Anyone loading for this round? Just picked up a Mk V Accumark and looking for some starting load suggestions.

When I get back home this afternoon I will post the load I use in my 338-378. I used it for brown bear in Alaska.

I am loading a max load of RL25 with 250gr Swift A-Frames. I am using Weatherby brass with F215M primers. The load I am using chronographs at 3150MV. If you send me a PM, I will send you the exact load. I developed it back in 2001 for a brown bear hunt and today it would be over max in most new manuals but works fine in my Accumark.

Slightly off-topic but hopefully entertaining. The first .338-.378 I saw was at the range in Anchorage around 2000. A fellow sets up at the bench next to me with a new Accumark - what a sight. He had what appeared to be brand new khaki safari clothes - including shorts, hat and fancy hunting boots. Quite the sight. I had fired a .300-.378 before so I had a rough idea of the amount of recoil the .338-.378 would dish out. The dude loads up his Accumark with factory 250s and proceeds to place his elbow on the benchtop, obviously intending to shoot without a rest. Okay, but the whole scene looked like it would play out like this: The dude fires his first shot, howls in pain from a bruised elbow, fires off the rest of the magazine without hitting the paper then storms off loudly exclaiming that he is selling the dam**d rifle....

What really happened: He fired off three shots in about one minute, and when I sneaked a peak at his target at the 100 yard line I saw three holes in a 1.5-2" group. Not only could the dude handle the rifle, he could shoot it very well. I recommend not sitting next to someone shooting the .338-.378 - the side blast from the brake was awesomely distracting.



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