There were a couple of articles in older Gun Digests touting the cartridge. The idea was valid but it suffered the wildcat syndrome. Make a change for a little improvement and then push it to the extremes. A capacity increase of 8-10% gives you about a 3% gain in performance. I have owned many wildcats and developed a few. In the case of the .338's, the field is fully convered. I have owned many, many rifles and I used one .338 WinMag for every head of big game I killed over 30 years. On the other end, a friend of mine took the upper argument with the 340 Weatherby. These 2 bracket the heavy end of the range and there is really no practical gap between the two. The mild end was unserved for years until the 338-06 was commercialized. I used a short action version in the 338/284. These are improved versions of the 358 Win.
