What's up everybody? We have 10 minutes here. Mr Ryan Muckinearns across the table and there are some cartridges between him and Mark and myself. So we're going to be talking about some kind of cartridge and you've already seen the title. It's the 338 lapua. We've had tons of requests to hear about the 338 lapua. Very interesting story, very interesting development behind it. I think we're going to get into that certainly and also maybe get into a little bit of the

fact that I think we talked a while back about a cartridge called the 50 bmg you're going to go back and check that one out

somewhat unicorn dust sprinkled over a cartridge

like the 50 PMG.

I think the 338 Lapeua gets a little bit of that too.

Like it's made of unicorn horn

and it can do anything ever.

Ryan, why don't you go into enlighten us on some of the history?

So it's an interesting wild cat, which is neat, also based off a very old cartridge.

Yeah. The 416 Rigby. So British sporting cartridge made for shooting

things like elephants and rhinoceruses and hippopotamie. I think that's the plural of hippopotamus.

I would go with that.

Sure.

And big volumous case, robust design, reshape, neck it down to a very slippery projectile

profile in this case 338 diameter, at the request of like the Navy

looking for a long-range sniper round.

They wanted it to be able to carry on its effectiveness in a certain speed, if I recall correctly, at a

thousand meters.

And we talked, Jim mentioned the 50 being, everybody kind of had this preconceived notion that the 50 was the ultimate sniper cartridge.

The old 330 Lippua gives a 50 run for its money and then sometimes is a much better application not necessarily from a

ballistic standpoint but like the whole system standpoint. Lighter

weight rifle carry way more ammo, lighter recoiling, flies through the Sonic and transonic barrier at depending on the bullet you're using,

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