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I'm 100% with Dober... I'd build a 375 H&H on an M70 and drop it in one of D'Arcy's stocks.

I'm not a Talkeetna fan.

Does the Caprivi also have a Krieger barrel?

This is not true. The magazine will allow rounds to be fed straight down. The maximum magazine allowable OAL is 3.640".

Right. "Headache" warned against modifying any Montana to retro-fit a floorplate.

I agree with this up to the Talkeetna cartridge and purpose. Lord knows I have had a few dozen Kimbers in the past 12 years, I suppose. I still bought the Talkeetna because I like the brand.
However, for dangerous game, I have opted to go with an available floorplate. Put it this way, I would sooner have a Talkeetna than a Ruger #1.

Different question than what you answered. The magazine must allow that. Is the receiver cut out > or = to the 3.640" OAL? The gent above says no.

There was never any problem loading rounds and certainly none when extracting and ejecting live rounds. Hope that covers it.

Funny stuff.

That's it.

toad covered it fine.

I've used a Talkeetna for three years and found it to be very reliable and very accurate. The balance point is about at front action screw making it a bit muzzle heavy as most long barreled rifles in synthetic stocks will be. I borrowed a bore scope and checked out several of my rifles and found the Talkeetna's Krieger barrel to be the smoothest machining.....better than my two Dakotas even.

My two cents on floor plates......I HATE EM!.....I've seen three incidents with em.....A local retired brown bear guide with 40+ years of experience asks clients to put duct tape over their floor plates.....so much for nice wood stocks!

I prefer the Hogue overmolded aluminum bedded stock over just about anything I've ever had, laminate, wood, tupperware, and boat materials included. It warms to the touch, is grippy, and quiet. It's heavier but a light .375 is kind of an oxymoron. I have less than $1800 in my Winchester. If I lost it, I believe I'd build another just like it due to the particular handling traits and comfort.

My m70 sits in a Legend and it wears irons and it's all fine.

I have one.

I love it and have used it extensivelly.
Mine has an issue with flat bullet on a full magazine, it jammed.
Once I changed bullet designs to a pointed bullets I had no issues.

I found this out on my first hunt with the rifle after hiting a black bear once. I filled the mag and got a jam. (floor plate would have been very nice as they are very difficult to unjam, it involved a knife and lots of blood)
Now if I use flat bullets , I only load 3. Outside of that the rifle is just about perfect.
Fast to point, great balence , great trigger and great recoil management and all this right out of the box.
I would hunt anything with this rifle.
FYI now I cycle every cartidge type through any new rifle I acquire before the hunt and not just a few times on a bench.

I hope this helps

PS, we found the bear dead shortly after we cleared the rifle but it was an exiting few minutes watching him move away while I fiddled with the jammed shell

Geezus.....

Anyone think there's a lesson here?

Glad it worked out OK for you with the bear.

That it takes a special gunmaker to build a FTF for one of the easiest cycling cartridges ever made? :~)

Well, not quite...but you're right about easy cycling cartridges

What comes to my mind is if it won't feed certain bullets, fix it until it does or ditch it.It isn't worth shidt if it won't feed everything.At least know in advance what works.

Second,blind magazines eventually lead to rodeos like this.And bullets aren't the only things that cause jams.Function is everything.Other possibilities include debris,broken off plastic tips from bullets,ice,dirt,etc.In any event the ability to access a magazine from the bottom is a good thing.

Third, if floorplates pop open it's because (a)the design sucks;buy a good one that won't open (b)it's broken...fix it, or (c)you're a klutz and didn't close it properly.The guide who insists clients use duct tape on floorplates has no control over the crap his clients bring to hunt with.

Amazing to me that people condemn all floorplates based on lousy designs popping open on them.Don't they shoot them at the range to find problems and fix them before a hunt?

If it opens, it's broke.Fix it or buy one that works the way it's supposed to.

That was a black bear that ran the other way...funny to think if it had been brown bear going in the opposite direction.

Rant over.

all these stories seem to make the case over and over for a properly tuned 375 as the beau ideal for the average hunter covering many species of varying degrees of potential lethality under a wide range of conditions - blonde, brunette and redheaded ladies excepted, of course!