.338 Federal

The .338 Federal is a rifle cartridge based on the .308 Winchester case necked up to .33 caliber. It was created by Federal Cartridge and SAKO in 2006 and intended as a big-game cartridge with reasonable recoil for lightweight rifles. .338 Federal can fit SR-25 pattern magazines but requires some modification for reliability

Comparison

The .338 Federal was designed by Federal Ammunition and it is a SAAMI standardized cartridge that was released in 2006. In the table below is a comparison between the .338 Federal and the older .358 Winchester, another cartridge based on the .308 Winchester.

See also

• .338 Lapua Magnum
• .338 Marlin Express
• .338 Ruger Compact Magnum
• .338 Remington Ultra Magnum
• .338 Winchester Magnum
• 8 mm caliber
• List of rifle cartridges
• Table of handgun and rifle cartridges
• sectional density

Notes

References

External links

• Peterson's Rifle Shooter magazine reviewed the .338 Federal in a Kimber 84M in "Truly Useful: The .338 Federal."
• Chub Eastman of Guns & Ammo has an article on reloading the .338 Federal: ".338 Federal: Federal's first proprietary cartridge makes real short-action sense" (2 Feb. 2007). He also wrote of using it to hunt antelope in New Mexico.
• Chuck Hawks reviewed the .338 Federal in, "First Look: The .338 Federal Rifle Cartridge"
• Sheriff Jim Wilson of Shooting Times magazine reviewed the .338 Federal in a Sako rifle and tells of his experience hunting whitetail deer with them "In The Field With The New .338 Federal".
• Buck Pope of GunWeek reviewed using the .338 Federal in a Sako Hunter Model 85 and his use of them to harvest a 225-pound wild boar and an 8-point whitetail deer "The New .338 Federal Is Big News for Big Game"
• Buck Pope of GunWeek reviewed the .338 Federal in a Ruger Model 77 Mark II Frontier in "Ruger M77 Frontier Rifle In .338 Federal Test Report"
• Jeff Quinn of GunBlast.com reviewed the ArmaLite AR-10T in .338 Federal in "ArmaLite AR-10(T) Match Grade .338 Federal Semi-Auto Rifle" (14 Aug 2008).