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Old 11-07-2006 | 11:09 AM
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Default RE: the 338 federal is looking promising

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Actually it is possible. As James said earlier, this isn't anything new to the wildcat community. An easy comparison is the 30-06 and the 338-06. Check these listings at Hodgdon powder:
http://www.hodgdon.com/data/rifle/30-06.php
http://www.hodgdon.com/data/rifle/33806.php

As you can see the 30-06 pushes a 180 gr. bullet at 2600-2700 fps while the 338-06 can push a 200 gr. bullet at 2700-2800 fps. plug that in to a calculator and you get approx. 2700 ft. lbs of ME for the 180 gr. 30-06 and 3200 ft. lbs of ME for the 200 gr. 338-06 bullet. Now granted thats only 500 ft. lbs of energy not the 6-700 discussed. This is a different case but it clearly shows that it is definately possible to do what you claim "cannot be possible."
No.

Something you're doing isn't adding up.

I just compared 180 gr. 30-06 and 250 gr. .338-06 and the difference was only 283 ft/lbs.

I'm still not buying it.
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