Thread: 6.5-338 on the Lapua website (sounds like sheer lunacy)

Originally Posted by Dead is better

Story of .338 Lapua Magnum | Nammo Lapua

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Has anyone ever seen one of these in NZ? I'm curious to know if an NZ gunsmith would go out on a limb to make one (just curious). I'd never heard of it to be honest. A bunch of questions come to mind though:
- Is it the queen of barrel burners?
- What of the dies? American custom perhaps...
- Would it damage gongs of any hardness I wonder. Is there a boffin that can tell me the ft-lb inpact of a 140gn projectile with an MV of 3780ft/s??? This is hilarious

Lapua 139gr at 3780 fps @ sea level.

ft lbs at muzzle 4409
at 500 yds 2590
at 1000 yds 1390

If zerod at 100 yards it would need just 14.7 MOA to get to 1000 yards

And im not a boffin, its really easy to generate via shooter app ;-)