The .338 Lapua Magnum (8.6×70 mm or 8.58×70 mm) is often a rimless, bottlenecked, centerfire rifle cartridge. It absolutely was created in the course of the nineteen eighties to be a high-run, long-range cartridge for army snipers. As a result of its use while in the War in Afghanistan along with the Iraq War, the cartridge is becoming broadly of