Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Express Rifles and Big Bores Only 235 gr .375's ?

The .375 Hawk is a 9.3x62 case necked up to a 375 cal bullet, and if you stick that one in a Win. M-95 your poop'en in tall cotton, that has to be a dandy rifle for about anything the far North has to offer and I would not hesitate to pop a Cape Buffalo, Lion, or whatever with it..Just a neat caliber in a neat rifle..

I have a new Win. 95 SRC that would make a nice 9.3x62. 10.75x68 or one of the Hawk calibers. It's a 30-06 now and I restrict it to 220 Nosler for elk and 220 Sierras for deer. I use the issue iron sights and it fits real nice under my leg on old Mojo, my rope horse.

Have not shot anything with this rifle as yet, but it shoots 1.5" at 100 for 3 shots. I stocked it with a shotgun butt, added a kick EZE recoil pad because the original carbine stock was way to short for this long armed child. I know those two bullet kill exceptionally well, as I have used them in my bolt gun 06 for years.

funny. the 376 steyr is a 9.3x64 cut down and necked up to .375.
I think the 376 steyr is a brilliant round in the right action.

Left to right: the 30-06 Springfield; the 8x57JS Mauser which inspired it; the .35 Whelen which outclassed it; the .350 Remington Magnum, a short fat belted version of the Whelen; the timeless 9.3x62mm Mauser which inspired the Whelen; the .376 Steyr which is potentially even better than the 9.3; and the .375 Holland & Holland Magnum, queen of the under-.40s. While the 30-06 and 8x57 were designed to kill small men, the .35 Whelen, .350 Remington Magnum, 9.3x62mm, .376 Steyr and .375 H&H were designed to kill big game.

I have used the 235 Speer on elk with great success, they also worked just peachy on Wildebeest, Impala, Grants, Hartebeest, and a couple dozen white tailed deer. Last elk shot (600 pound 5x5) with this bullet was angling away and the bullet went into the ribcage half way back, tore the heart and one lung apart and exited the chest. Penetration was about three and a half feet. When he turned sideways I put another, unneeded, 235 Speer through the leg bone/shoulder and he tipped over. I recovered that bullet, perfectly expanded, under the hide on the off side.

I like em.

Terry