Firing my .338 Win. Mag.

This would be yours truely taking two shots with my .338 Winchester Magnum while on a trip to the local shooting range with some friends. The rifle is a Ruger M77 Hawkeye with a Harris bipod and a Nikon Prostaff scope. I also have a leather, Ruger sling on this rifle.

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• .338
• Winchester
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• Recoil
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[possumpopper89]

Did you notice the huge flinch when he tried to fire the first shot with the safety on? I have a .338 Win. My favorite elk caliber. But shot placement is more important than caliber. Find something that you can shoot well without the flinch.

[animalmother792]

It doesn't help that it took me like fifteen shots to sight it in before I brought it from the rifle range to the pit, or that I'd spent a few hours at the trap range before shooting rifles. By the time this video was taken, it was already painful just to shoulder the rifle.

[animalmother792]

Recoil from firearms can crush the capilaries in your skin, causing bruises. Sorry, I have never fired this gun from a prone position, only standing, and at a bench [usually at a bench]. I'll have toget back to you on that one.

[animalmother792]

Actually, the Hornady ammo that I use in it [225 grain soft points] have a muzzle velocity of 2920 feet per second, according to the ballistics posted on the packaging. Now, these are loaded a little hot, but 2920 FPS happens to be faster than 2800, though the difference in bullet weight would likely make it very close. I'm not going to load any 300 grain bullets into my brass and chrono it or anything, though.

[animalmother792]

I looked at a lot of scopes, and honestly, this was probably the least expensive one that I did look at. I liked it a lot more than anything else under about $450, and I wasn't ready to buy anything much more expensive than that at the time. I love the scope, and I'd recommend it to anyone. I'm not sure how I feel about the BDC reticle, as I've yet to try it outside of 200 yards. Sorr I'm late to respond.

[animalmother792]

I've never fired a .338 Lapua, but I believe that caliber to be much more powerful, and would imagine that it has more recoil. I've never fired this gun from the prone position as I usually stand when I shoot, or sit at a bench, but if you fire the gun 20 times in less than 2 hours, you'll get a bruise much like as if you had fired a 12 guage a few hundred times. You can definitely feel the recoil pretty well with every shot. It's not painful, but it's noticable.

[captainpegs07]

@animalmother792 animal mother would not have excuses.

[StainlessSteel58]

@animalmother792

Find a good gun smith and have a muzzle break put on it. I have a rugger M77 in .338 My 338 has less recoil then my ,306 with the muzzle break on it. And I can damn near drive tacks with both of them.

[JtsGreene]

I don't know, my 12 gauge 26 inch barrel remington with 2 1/3 inch slugs recoils harder than my remington 798 in .375 h&h with with 270 grain hornadys. Or my weatherby vangaurd in .338 win mag shooting 250 grains. All with stock recoil pads. The rifles have scopes and the 12 gauge doesn't. Maybe the 12 gauge would be about the same as the .375 h&h if it had a scope on it.

[steelcurtain656]

@marlin917v depends on what you did to the gun for the recoil, its like a 12 gauge with 3 inch slugs i wouls say

[getsomemarines93]

no its fun the dude is just handleing the gun i have one the bullet stays true for one mile the best rifle i had since when i was 5 years old

[twistedtoysnec]

Yes ...I did notice that. Theres no way this caliber is fun to shoot. Id prolly go with a .270 instead.

[BH206L3]

I shoot a Sako 75 so chambered, One of the problems you have with your shooting, is shooting to much in one siting. Have a gunsmith fit a good recoil pad. Ruger pads are a little tough when you go above 30-06. How is it grouping for you? The 338 will serve you well, it just takes time at the range, I never shoot more that 10 at a time. Lay off for a week or two, then go down put a target out at a couple of hundred yards and fire one shot off your bipod, keep doing that for a couple of months.

[tuttoz]

yeah there was this guy that hunted all game animals of the world with a .270 ... counting elephant and cape buffalo