.338 Lapua round is HUGE!!

[NYY]

was at Sportsman supply today and saw a nice Bolt action rifle (pretty sure not Remington, Winchester, or Savage, and also had one of those ".50 cal breaks" on it..) anyways. I quickly asked how much 20 rounds were.. and he showed me Hornady FMJs, $90 for 20. and the round itself was at least twice as big as i imagined it was. Didnt know that caliber is that expensive!

left to right. 5.56, .308, .338 Lapua

[bomb_on_bus]

Yeah thats on the cheap end for .338 unfortunately. To get the good stuff its going to cost around 10 a round or to spare the wallet burn reload instead.

For the price or even cheaper you can shoot a much larger caliber such as a .375 cheytac. or any number of other large bore caliber rounds.

Hopefully some the US military will use more .338 ammo and get places like LC mass producing the round. Maybe then ammo prices will go down a bit.

[Fjold]

4 Bore, 50 BMG, 375 H&H

[Noah3683]

That's actually a pretty decent deal on .338

[Bhobbs]

It was probably an AR-30.

[LRShooter]

I've never seen it for less than $100 a box. Even brass is expensive. I'll stick with my .308 for now.

[kermitz]

I ran across the same thing at my LGS. They had a sweet Remington 700 police .338, Leupold scope and Harris bipod. I dreamed about it for all of 5 minutes when i saw the cheapest .338 ammo was $130.00/20. No thanks.

[CSACANNONEER]

LMAO! .338L is no where near "huge". It's less than 1/2 the size of a normal little 50BMG round. But, if you want to tell yourself and your GF that it is "huge", go ahead. Someday she'll learn the truth.

[Bigtwin]

I was at the range on Labor day weekend, and a shooter next to me let me shoot his 338Lapua. It was very large compared to my 7.62x39 and 7.62x54r as well as any other .308 or 30-06 I have shot before.
I really liked shooting the 338 lapua. It was not as bad as I thought after seeing the caseing.

Then that same friendly shooter brought out his 50BMG. And holy ****! While it was no where near as loud as I expected(never been around one though), the boom was felt very much so. Seeing the dust trail run all the way out to the target was very cool.

After talking to him for some time, he said he loved the smaller caliber(338) much more.

[robcoe]

4.50 a round, not to bad for .338

my buddy jokes that his .338 is chambered for $5 bills.

[Fjold]

The case length of the 308 Win is 2.015"
The case length of the 30.06 is 2.494"
The case length of the 338 Lapua is 2.724"
The case length of the 375 H&H is 2.85"

[Bigtwin]

The case length of the 308 Win is 2.015"
The case length of the 30.06 is 2.494"
The case length of the 338 Lapua is 2.724"
The case length of the 375 H&H is 2.85"

YES, but it was the diameter that looks huge to me!

[CSACANNONEER]

YES, but it was the diameter that looks huge to me!

Sig line up for grabs!!!!!

[Levetti]

^^^

[CRTguns]

ahh... no it's not.

RUM is bigger (100fps<lapua)
Edge is bigger(100fps>lapua)

And both use much cheaper domestic sized rifle actions to build you a gun.