Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Africa Winchester SE or CZ 550 Safari in 375 H&H?

Ken,

In an earlier post you mentioned that a Whitworth would be a cool find. Let me second that suggestion.

I decided that was the way I wanted to go a few years ago, and have never regretted it. I found one at a very good price. It would have been very serviceable as it was, but I wanted a few improvements. I turned it over to Jim Kobe who did wonderful work on it and produced exactly the rifle I wanted. Among other things, I had him cut the barrel to 22". As pictured below, the rifle weighs 9 lbs. 5 oz. which I find to be a good weight for a .375. It is very accurate with the original barrel (I checked that before Jim did the work.). I took it to Africa in June 2015 and shot a Kudu, Nyala, and Black Wildebeest with it and really bonded with the rifle. It shoots 270 gr. Barnes TSX bullets as flat as a 180 gr. bullet in a .30-06.