Rifles and Ammunition
Due to the cartridge’s popularity all North American rifle manufacturers offer rifles chambered in the .338 Winchester Magnum. Ruger, Browning, Kimber, Remington, Savage, Weatherby, Mossberg, Howa and Winchester chamber the cartridge in several product lines. Almost all custom rifle makers in the United States and Canada produce .338 Winchester rifles. In European rifle makers Blaser, Mauser, Sako and Tikka also manufacture rifles for this cartridge. The large number of rifle choices available in the .338 Winchester Magnum offers the rifleman a greater choice in available rifle platforms.
All North American ammunition makers offer several loadings of the .338 Winchester Magnum to the public for sale. At this point in time Federal has six in their Vital-Shok and Fusion ammunition lines, Hornady has five, including four in their Superformance ammunition which is putting an end to the light magnum and heavy magnum line of ammo but adds up to 200 ft/s (61 m/s) more without added recoil or muzzle blast. The 185 gr. GMX (gliding metal expanding) round has the following performance: 3,080 ft/s (940 m/s) at the muzzle, 2,850 ft/s (870 m/s) at 100 yards, 3,896 ft⋅lbf (5,282 J) of kinetic energy at the muzzle and 3,337 ft⋅lbf (4,524 J) at 100 yards. 200 gr. SST, 225 gr. interbond, 225 gr. SST are all excellent big game rounds, and the 185 gr. is a wonderful deer round. Remington and Winchester offer four loadings each for the cartridge. Several smaller ammunition including Cor-Bon and Double Tap also manufacture loaded ammunition.
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