Anyone making current production guns chambered for 338 Marlin Express?
- Thread starter vpsalin
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well no guarantee but i doubt it will ever come back.
maple_leaf_eh
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I had to look that one up. It replicates .30-06 and looks like a fat .308 but .338 calibre. Supposedly a bigger option for lever actions. Since levers are a small segment of the hunting rifle market compared to all the other action types, I have a hard time believing any company would put the effort into a new cartridge that didn't offer greater performance. In the US there are cartridges designed and marketed because of state specific hunting regulations. Canada doesn't have that magnitude of hunter-driven demand. Layer those economics over the current turmoil and restructuring changes in the US commercial gun economy, and I would agree with the comment above that, 'it ain't comin' back'.
Good luck and hope you find one and lots of brass to go with it.
Good luck and hope you find one and lots of brass to go with it.
Almost all of the so called new and improved lever gun cartridges have been dropped and no longer produced. No enough market share in lever guns to make any amount of money. Not enough people bought into the hype when they first came out. My 307 Winchester is an excellent cartridge but it is too similar to more popular rounds, 308 Winchester for one.
