Picked up a new BR magazine for the wife (MGS), it was on the AR-10B in .338 Federal. Sounded interesting. May have to get another Armalite.... an AR-10 this time and get the .308win and .338fed uppers.
Anyone seen/shot one?
MikeH

Never seen one. i didn't even know they made them. Now I have to look. Damn you.

I was looking at .338 Fed ammo yesterday. It's not cheap.

I have to say, this information has piqued my interest.

This post has been edited by Gmountain: June 8th 2009 12:20 AM

The .338 fed should make for a sweet long range powerhouse gun.

Ive been on a waiting list for two months now for one of these. Living here in Kodiak, you can never have enough horsepower, in fact, it is common to see deer hunters with big belted magnums, not so much for the deer but what can happen after the kill and field dressing it out. While most gunshots scare away animals, the bears in some of the areas relate to it as a dinner bell. Yeah, it sucks. When i heard armalite was chambering in a 338 fed. i had to get one of these. They say a 180 bullet that can generate as much muzzle energy as a 7mm mag is quite impressive, much less the new gen II 25rd magazines from armalite. Talk about the god like backwoods ego trip from hell, could anything really stop you? Cant wait to get mine. If you were to put a rail on the rifle, would you choose a samson 13.2in or a daniel defense 12in rail?

I can see the the .338 fed being optimum for anything smaller than brownies. With that said, I personally would drag my 12ga with slugs if I was somewhere where brown bears (or in your case Kodiaks) live. I just don't see .338 federal being that big of an isnta-show stopper when dealing with large bears.