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A mate of mine has sniped fallow deer at 800yards using his 338RUM.

I use the .338 RUM and .375 RUM.

I’ve had a CA Ridgeline 300 RUM and now have a M70 SC in a Legend. Pretty awesome cartridge. The 70 action isn’t the best fit in my opinion to the cartridge but I make do for now.







I have a Defiance Deviant GA Hunter with CRF and 3 POS along with a 1-8 Hawk Hill I plan to make into a 338 RUM soon.

Had one for elk. Great cartridge and very accurate in my Rem M700. Don't hunt elk anymore so sold it to make room in the safe. Should have bought another safe.

I need another safe myself

That’s a good one. Might be interested.

I've owned the 7mm, 300 and 338 RUM. All three were Remington factory tubes. The 7mm RUM would consistently shoot half inch or smaller groups at 100 yards with the 150 gr Ballistic tip. The 338 RUM would consistently shoot half inch or a little bigger at 100 yards with the 225 gr Accubond. 500 yard groups with both guns ranged consistently from 2 to 3 1/2 inches. I killed deer with both. I hunted elk with the 338 RUM but never got one. The 300 RUM was around an inch or less at 100 yards with the 200 gr Accubond. I killed an elk with it.
All three are gone but if I could have one of them back it would be the 338 RUM.

Back around 1999 or 2000, I purchased two of the Stainless Fluted Sendero's. One in 300 RUM, the other in 338 RUM. Seemed like the 300 kicked tha' bejesus out of me. Got rid of it and kept the 338 RUM. Sent it to Hill Country Rifle and had them do the Accurising Pkg. they were doing Circa 2004. Also had them add a Vais Brake. It's now a pussy-cat! Taken a number of critters with it over the last 20 years or so. I typically don't shoot long range but my longest kill wit the RUM was a white-tail doe @ a lasered 590 yds.






















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I have 300 rum in a stainless model 70. My load is 94.0 gr 7977, rem 9 1/2 mag, 180gr ttsx, 3.600 avg velocity 3280.

ADG has been making 300 RUM brass for a few years now & it's tons better than the Rem/Nor/Nos/Fed/Hor stuff out there .... One pass in a 7mm RUM full length die and you're good to go

in stock at Blue Collar Reloading .....

ADG 300 RUM brass

& Nosler brass
Nosler 300 RUM brass

YUP

I have some once fired brass I will sell. I was going to reload for a buddy of mine, but he doesn't use rifle enough. PM me if interested in buying it

Brass is sold. thanks Hanco

I bought a Rem 700 in .375 RUM about 20 years ago mainly for an African Cape Buffalo hunt.

It was a stainless barrel and action in a laminated stock. I only shoot handloads for everything except .22 rimfire. The first time that I took it to the range to sight in the scope and to test my 300 grain TSX handloads, it kicked so bad that I didn't fire all of the different loads that I was working up.

So I sent the barreled action to a "gunsmith" in Arizona to have the barrel ported, and I ordered a laminated stock blank from Richards so I could make a stock that better fit me. When I got the barreled action back the 26" barrel had been shorteded to a ported 24". He had a note with it that something had gone wrong with the first porting that he had done and he had to cut it off and port it again. So now the effective length of my 26" barrel was 22".

But then with a new stock, a ported barrel, and 3 groups of 3 test loads I returned to the range. The made to fit me stock and ported barrel tamed recoil, but before I got through my 9 test cartridges, the ported end of the barrel blew off.

I then tried to get ahold of the "gunsmith" he would not answer my phone calls or emails. I later found out that he had gone out of business. My option then was to send the barreled action back to Remington for a new barrel. That took over a year to get me back to my original 26" barreled action.

At a local gunshow I tallked to a gunsmith from Billings, MT that said he could install a KDF brake, the same diameter as the muzzle, on my rifle. He did and finally all was good with my .375 RUM. I built the stock with a LOP to fit me, pillar and glass bedded the action and barrel, then floated the barrel, put a 1" Limbsaver recoil pad on it, and finished the stock with my favorite mulit-panel, wrap-a-round hand cut checkering pattern. I topped it off with a Leupold 2-7x scope. Three shot groups with my 300 grain TSX bullets would shoot 100 yard moa groups.


Everything was finally ready for my 2005 Zimbabwe buffalo hunt.


Along with this Chobe bushbuck.


And then back to South Africa for some Plains Game animals including this Nyala.


I took my .375 RUM back to South Africa with me in 2007 for a PG hunt on several properties in the Eastern and Southern Cape. Before going on this trip, to further tame the recoil of my .375 RUM I installed a mercury recoil reducer in it's stock. One of my animals on that trip was this Vaal Rhebok that I got with a 150 yard prone shot.


And this Cape Eland from a spot and stalk 30 yard shot.


My .375 RUM was then a safe queen until last year when I used it in Alaska for this Grizzly bear.

Awesome show for that big 375! You've definitely got some use out of it!

No doubt! Thanks for sharing

Ive been hunting with the uktra mags since the first came out. First with a 7mm Ultra and then with a model 70 stainless 300 ultra , which has been my main rifle for around 20 years.

Original sendero 300 Ultra - still miss it!!
Remington all weather SPS in 338 Ultra
Sako 75V in 300 Ultra
Sako 75V in 7mm Ultra
Rebarreling a Sako 75V from 300 to 375 Ultra currently...

Good brass, good price