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#10MinuteTalk | The .338 ARC | Big Bullet, Small Case

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🗓️ 28 December 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Short, slow, and fat. No, this isn’t Mark’s high school football scouting report. It describes the positive attributes of the .338 ARC. This is a cool cartridge doing cool stuff in a standard AR frame. Tune in to hear all about it.

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0:00.0

What is up, everybody? Jim to my right, Mr. Ryan Muckin-Hern across from me. I just chikined out from an intro.

0:09.0

Dude, these guys are upset. You've never chickened out. I didn't know. It's Christmas. I thought it might be religiously offensive. Wow. What? Should we start over? Nope. No, we're in it now. To quote our friend Tucker, we're doing it live.

0:24.1

I was going to start with another song, as I sometimes like to do.

0:28.2

Yes.

0:28.8

During the holiday cartridge talks, which it was going to be silent night.

0:34.9

And then I was going to follow that with silent cartridge.

0:37.8

Because we're talking about the 338 arc and the sample that we have, I know the subs and supers.

0:44.5

But what we have here is it's the subsonic, the 307 green subX.

0:49.7

There.

0:50.2

Now I said it.

0:50.8

It's out there.

0:51.3

Very nice.

0:52.0

338 arc.

0:53.6

We're talking about subsonics here.

0:55.5

Yeah.

1:10.6

There are supers. Like, why did they make this? Like, let's be real. For subs. For subs. Yeah. Right. I mean, that's why it's like, sometimes we bring like multiple examples. Yeah. And it's like, eh. It's like when Ford made the Mustang and you could get a V6

1:12.4

That's not why they made the Mustang. Right. Yeah. So, uh, kind of neat cartridge. Very. Uh, fits in an AR. Does. Pushing, uh, 338 diameter, 307 grain bullet at, what's that saying right here Ryan a muzzle of

1:32.3

muzzle velocity of 1050 which seems to be like that's right kind of like a subsonic

1:37.2

muzzle velocity it's weird it's like right below the speed of sound it is interesting

1:41.5

there's a number for it or name almost like they know what the number is and they very purposely, like just dial it back a little bit.

1:51.8

Under it.

1:52.3

It's like it's under Sonic.

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