The 338 Ultra A Poor Man's Lapua?  17 January 2004 By Mike
Miller  By now most of you have heard of the .338 Lapua, but few
have heard of the .338 Ultra. The .338 Lapua has earned a great
reputation as a 1500 meter sniping round. It is head and
shoulders above the .300WM and offers most of what a .50BMG, in
anti personnel roles, does, without the blast or weight of the
big .50.  A .338 Lapua launches 250 grain bullets at over
3000fps and 300 grain bullets at over 2850fps, with good hand
loads and sub 1/2 moa accuracy. The factory Lapua ammunition is
slightly slower. Those are big shoes to fill and when Jerry
Rice, of NOR-CAL PRECISION suggested a rifle in .338 Ultra, as a
cheaper route than the .338 Lapua, I was all ears. The Lapua
requires lots of modification to work in a Remington 700 action
and that means high cost. The Ultra is a factory available
chambering and requires no modification to the Remington Ultra
action. In short it can be built for around the same cost as a
.308 sniper rifle.  We talked and