Maverick223
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Best to stick to that 338-378 double. What we need is a 50BMG in a double rifle...and a jeep to mount it on
.375H&H/.458mag sniper/elephant guns?
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Blacksmoke
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I recently sold my .375 H&H Remington 700. There are 250 grain spire point factory loads. Federal makes them. My favorite for longer ranges was a handload- 300 grain Hornady boat tail soft spire point over 66.5 grains of IMR 4064. They really sail.
My general experience was the .375 with round nose 300 grain factory ammo had a trajectory about like a .30-06 with 220 grain round nose ammo. The pointy bullet makes a big difference.
I really liked the 300 grain BTSP relative stability in cross winds. This is within 500 yards and more like 400+.
The recoil never bothered me. The rifle with a scope is heavy to carry for a long day up and down mountain trails. It is also really big and clumsy compared to the short magnum cartridge rifles nowadays.
My experience with elk was they go down and stay down wherever they were hit.
My general experience was the .375 with round nose 300 grain factory ammo had a trajectory about like a .30-06 with 220 grain round nose ammo. The pointy bullet makes a big difference.
I really liked the 300 grain BTSP relative stability in cross winds. This is within 500 yards and more like 400+.
The recoil never bothered me. The rifle with a scope is heavy to carry for a long day up and down mountain trails. It is also really big and clumsy compared to the short magnum cartridge rifles nowadays.
My experience with elk was they go down and stay down wherever they were hit.
Maverick223
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Didn't realize that you could get good spitzers (better than something like silvertips) in the .375H&H. This bullet in a good bolt gun looks like a winner for the OP. It isn't a sniper rifle, but if it can match the ballistics of 30-06 with a bullet with a BC better than a rock, it'll do well. Might I suggest a CZ 550 to go along with it, they are relatively cheap, reliable (except for stocks cracking in .458Lott), seem to have a good finish (not like a H&H, but not bad), and they fit me well.
Yeah, from my experience with the .375H&H, it tends to have that effect.
NickEllis
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I'll third that.
Maverick223
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Sometimes they fall over dead after looking at the rifle. 
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I've never seen any animals fall over dead from mere sight of the perceived evil and often touted .375H&H. But I have seen more than one "rifleman" work themselves into frothing puddle of nerves over the purported deadly and apparently unrecoverable recoil of this gentlemanly old round.
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I had a CZ 550 in .458 Lott. It had feeding problems, severe feeding problems and they are very prone to stock splitting. They need some major stock work to make them hang together for any serious shooting. They also need a safety modification in the heavier calibers. The safeties are prone to flipping on in recoil. That little issue will cost somebody their life at some point.
Besides that it was decent rifle for the money.
Besides that it was decent rifle for the money.
Maverick223
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Good to know, I had heard about the stock splitting issues (corrected by properly bedding the stock, or shooting the wee .458WM instead
). Looking at them for my first African game rifle, may have to keep on looking...I don't plan to purchase real soon anyways.Why not just buy a 375 Ruger or a 375 JDJ???.... they are fairly close to the 375 H&H, in fact the 375 Ruger is damn close. I have the 375 JDJ in both rifle and pistol and it is plenty stout enough to take any game animal in the world. Of course my JDJ's are single shot T/C's
Thanks Maverick223. I am at that point in life where I can afford nice stuff but seem to be too busy to enjoy them. My 14 year old son has a gun collection of really nice stuff he will inherit from me which would enable him to shoot/hunt with a different firearm over summer vacation without every shooting the same one twice. Unfortunately, he is only interested in shooting firearms while playing video games. If I would have been so lucky at 14.
Maverick223
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Will you adopt me?
I am at the point in life where I cannot afford all of the nice stuff I want, and have no time to enjoy it. :banghead:Kind of like most all the guys driving new Corvettes have gray hair. I've had to cut back on buying toys within the last year and I have discovered my firearm addiction was out of control. I've invested in several semi-automatics just in case firearm laws start going backward. I'm mostly a bolt guy. After reflecting on my comments about my son's video game addiction I thought how he would feel if the liberals tried to take his digital weapons from him and then it hit me...that has actually been tried hasn't it. I seem to remember a few years back some talk on the talking heads news shows where a group was citing this and crying about that and how our children were going to grow up to be serial killers if they continue using digital weapons to frag the digital bad guys. I can just hear some liberal lawyer now...your honor, the three headed fang toothed sceptar from planet kalipso did not deserve to be shot by little Johnny and his digital pistol gripped ak47 loaded with hollowpoint bullets in a horrible 30 round magazine even if he was defending the planet from domination by these aliens.
I've invested in several semi-automatics just in case firearm laws start going backward. I'm mostly a bolt guy. After reflecting on my comments about my son's video game addiction I thought how he would feel if the liberals tried to take his digital weapons from him and then it hit me...that has actually been tried hasn't it. I seem to remember a few years back some talk on the talking heads news shows where a group was citing this and crying about that and how our children were going to grow up to be serial killers if they continue using digital weapons to frag the digital bad guys. I can just hear some liberal lawyer now...your honor, the three headed fang toothed sceptar from planet kalipso did not deserve to be shot by little Johnny and his digital pistol gripped ak47 loaded with hollowpoint bullets in a horrible 30 round magazine even if he was defending the planet from domination by these aliens.
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