I appreciate that you are asking about a .338 &a .457
but I thought I'd post this up since it's just out from Remington.
It's built for law enforcement but would make an incredible hog gun.
It would be a great fast shooter in any caliber..

http://www.remingtonle.com/rifles/7600.htm

The original topic was

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A .338 RUM or a .457 Wildwest Mag Levergun(with a 405 bullet over 2,000 fps)?Both with 43 ft lbs of Recoil? Your opinion....
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your reply was

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The only guns that were competitive were semiautos, pumps in low-recoiling rounds, followed by lever actions in low-recoiling rounds

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Since it was stated that the 338ultramag and the .457 wildwest mag lever gun ,both deliver 43ftlbs of recoil,any data based on low-recoiling rounds would not necessarily be relevent data to base assumptions on.
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Just posting something I read awhile back. My apologies...

A lever gun has only two movements... down and up.
A bolt gun has four... up, back, forward, down (then reposition the trigger finger)
Lever is faster, since the hand only moves in two directions, whereas the bolt action hand changes direction four times cycling the bolt.
Granted, someone can learn to be quite fast with either, but a lever is faster. ~~~Suluuq