Video: Striker in 338 Edge

[358Hammer]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oi8kwZw-h6A&feature=email

Range day November 13th, 2009

Ran-now snow-35 degress slight breeze in the face

338 Edge
19" 3 groove benchmark barrel
Muscle brake (small) Generation ll -NO TOP PORTS by centershotrifles.com

First I would like to correct myself from a previous post. Did not use my Prochrony first. Used the Pact chrony. Today I used the Prochrony and found the velocities roughly 35fps slower on the Prochrony than the Pact!

Load 1 Nosler 200 Grain Accubond bullet Average velocity 3004 Spread 10fps .250 3 shot group

Load 2. Nosler 225 Grain Accubond bullet Average velocity 2922 Spread 8fps .2

Load 3. GS 180 Gr Borerider/Moly Average velocity 3092 To Much spread .5

Overview: Holy Power Batman:

Heaven is the only place that is better than how I felt today with my wife taping and me pulling the trigger on this incredible HAMMER! No pressure of any kind with 97 grains of H4831 driving that 225 grain Accubond.
Personal feelings: I still haven't got over my reservations of pulling the trigger on this 8 pound finished gun. The trigger breaks clean at 3 pounds and until I change the angle on the sear it will stay where its at. Nearly a ton of energy at 500 yards!!!!

Jim has gone elk hunting again so I won't say until I speak with him about the NO- conventional top porting. I will say that in the micro second between ignition and the gas hits the ports the gun moves one inch to the rear.

I can not hardly sit here and type is how I feel.

Neal

[Dangerous Dan]

Great Viedo Neil What a Handful DD

[PBR DRIVER]

Great video, Thanks for sharing. Yeah I want one!

[ammowaster]

I dont know what kind of twisted individual builds a 338 edge pistol(or a 338-378 for that matter)

But you are a ok in my book ;D

[1Shot]

...You're the man with those hand cannons...lol... ;)

[358Hammer]

Thank you guys! I can't take credit for being anything but lazy. Stopped carrying those heavy long guns years ago because it was to much work. Plus the dang things kept getting hung up in the alders here in Alaska.

A couple years ago I was 12' face to face with an angry (very large) momma Brown Bear! I started thinking lightest and the most power I could comfortably shoot. I still do not like walking past that spot by myself. My wife killed a large bull buffalo with the 338WSM and 180 grain Accubond so I know she is set.
I have wanted the Edge for bear protection using the 225 grain Accubond since this last encounter. All of the brakes I have tried except two gave me terrible headaches till the muscle brake.

I think we have my new hunting gun and it should get-R-done for any application.

Stop on by any time and we can go shoot them.

Neal

[Apache]

WOW!

I've gotta get one of those strikers!

I know it's been posted elsewhere....where can I find info on that muscle break?

[358Hammer]

Muscle brake (small) Generation ll -NO TOP PORTS by
centershotrifles.com

[Apache]

Thanks!!!

[Lefty Lucas]

358 Hammer:

That is some HAND cannon WOW!! :o
I have shot a 338 Edge in a rifle but it has to be a hole lot of SOMETHING.

Is your Striker a long action or a short action and just change the bolt face?
I though that all Strikers were short action.
Tell us a little bit about the action if you done anything to it.

Thanks
Lefty Lucas

[358Hammer]

Lefty

All Striker actions are short action. Ports are however 3" so the case extracts quite nicely. A loaded round must be extracted out the rear of the action with the bolt. Unlike a typical internal bolt release on a XP100, the Savage is easy to extract the bolt.

This was a generation 3 Striker in 300WSM so the bolt face was the magnum bolt face. The Barrel thread was the large shank 1.120. Though I hear other manufacturers chamber the Short Mag and Ultra Mag cartridges in the small shank, I for one will not do it.

Neal

[1Shot]

...Im kinda curious as to how you cary them around.. ;D

[358Hammer]

Little motorized handtruck!

All kidding aside,these have a none-skid sling and are slung like a rifle. Two of them under 7 pounds complete, one doesn't even notice them.

Since all of our hunting is backpack style normally, we use external frame freighter packs. I sling mine over one of the uprights on the frame with my arm through the sling. I never notice its there until time to shoot.

Neal