jeepkid, well seeing that only sako/tikka and kimber chamber for the 338 fed that's a start. Tikka hunter is a hardwood stock, I'm properly brain washed that wood stocks tend to wander a bit. They also offer a stainless in a laminate that stock would be fine but I really don't want a stainless at this point and time. I did go to the range with the rifle in the original config, way to much barrel jump for my taste, this way I got to fix it.
EKM I don't dissagree with you and as far as the more robust 338s I wouldn't own one, those things are for people who are into pain. I can handle a 06 pushing 180's all day long, don't care for any more. The savage is a 338 fed, it's a 110 that started off life as a 30 06 and was rebarreled with a adams bennet barrel in "mag" contour I also did away with the tupperware stock and it's in wood, but because of that it will never be a primary hunting rifle. I played with it to decide if I wanted to lay out the money for a rifle in 338 fed, it's recoil is around the same area as a 06. But I have no way to weight it.