.338 Lapua Magnum

>>29506005
Bump for interest.

If you haven't shot 338LM yet you will have no reason to for the rest of your life, unless you suddenly become an ELR shooter

This is not a plinker, this is an expensive as fuck workhorse

It'll never be more than a sniper cartridge due to OAL and barrel life issues. The US isn't going to adopt a 338LM MMG just because goat fuckers are shooting across mountain tops with enfields anytime soon.

tldr: 50bmg stronk, M2 is fine.

>>29506005
.338Lapua rifles are chambered in $5 bills.

You are definitely asking the wrong board.....

Even if I had the $4750 for a mofuggin AWP, Id still buy a M82A1 with glass for ~$9k due to the fact you can actually buy mil surplus .50 for ~$1.50 per shot.

>>29506005
Is it ever going to be what an infantryman or a designated marksman is carrying? Probably not. Is it going to become a common hunting round? No, except for game large enough and situations unusual enough to be back in the niche category. Is it for self defense? Nope.

Its an excellent round for the kind of extremely long range shooting very few people do.

>>29506187
How the fuck am I asking the wrong board?

>>29506217
Because this place is filled with poorfags and nogunz.

>>29506217
nioggers here argue about how expensive 7.62x54r has become. and how 9mm is best handgun round cause its cheaper and FBI went back to it.

The last time I saw a Long Distance Precision shooting thread was 2009 /k/

we dont even have reloading threads anymore.

>>29506248
There is a reloading thread directly below this one you double nigger.

>>29506195
Pretty much this. It's a superb long distance round. Stable trajectory and retains its energy to a freaking long as distance. But it wears barrels out like crazy and yeah is chambered in 5 dollar bills. No one outside of well heeled long distance shooters or a few SpecOps teams are ever really going to make use of it without major changes in metallurgy or powders to bring down the cost of servicing it.

>>29506165
Presumably the price could come down as the round gets more popular. Economies of scale, competition and all that. 300 blackout used to be stupid expensive too but it's much more reasonable nowadays.