ORIGINAL: James B
I would guess that he posted what the artical said and maybe it didn't give any further ballistics. When you get into the heavier bullets like the 200 and 210, momentum starts to enter in as well. The ballistics that he posted sounds like the same artical I read. I still think its best out to 200 yards but its listed ballistics show that 300 may be well within it power band. Its new and time will judge it as time has judged all new rounds. Only so much can be determined by ballistic figures, the rest will shake out in the field. I can see good uses for it by those of us who do not appreciate fierce recoil and that can close the distance and pass if things are not to our liking. I look forward to trying one out. Probably when the Encore makes it available. Maybe a new 28 inch Pro-Hunter barrel.
Well I think I would trust the people that developed the cartridge over some random gun writer.
My only point in this whole thing is: what is the .338 Federal doing that the .308 or any other cartridge doesn't already do?
It doesn't even offer a substantial performance gain at short ranges.
I plugged some numbers into my recoil calculator just for the hell of it. All indications show that even with the same powder grains, the .338 is going to kick substantially more than the .308 with even a 20 grain heavier bullet.