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Here's my Ruger Hawkeye African 375 Ruger, in its McMillan McWoody stock, and an Asian Water Buffalo taken in Argentina. It's a MOA shooter, and with the McMillan, a very tolerable shooter. Very nice. Give us a hunt report, please! What bullets?
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Here's my Ruger Hawkeye African 375 Ruger, in its McMillan McWoody stock, and an Asian Water Buffalo taken in Argentina. It's a MOA shooter, and with the McMillan, a very tolerable shooter. Great lookin buff. Would love to do that someday. Congrats.
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Shot the buff with my handload, a 270 gr. Barnes TSX ahead of 81.0 gr. of Big Game powder, MV 2800 fps. Shot was 1/3 up the body, very tight behind the front leg. Bullet under the hide on the far side- perfect penetration on a 2000# animal.
Buff was found in the open grassland early in the morning, and distance was longish for a shot at water buffalo- 140 yards. Still lots of energy at that range with the 375 Ruger.
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Shot the buff with my handload, a 270 gr. Barnes TSX ahead of 81.0 gr. of Big Game powder, MV 2800 fps. Shot was 1/3 up the body, very tight behind the front leg. Bullet under the hide on the far side- perfect penetration on a 2000# animal.
Buff was found in the open grassland early in the morning, and distance was longish for a shot at water buffalo- 140 yards. Still lots of energy at that range with the 375 Ruger. I know a professional hunter in Africa who says he would be mighty happy if every hunter that showed up (for buff or dang near anything): A) could shoot a .375 well and B) was shooting a Barnes X bullet. John
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Ruger Alaskan/Mcmillan stock, on the bottom:
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Here's mine, Brevex Mauser by Roger Biesen: It's kind of embarrassing; it shoots even better than my very accurate .220 Swift. GF1.... Very nice. Beautiful in every way.
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Bighorn.....nicely set up rifle you have there. Obviously you and your rifle did a great job on your buff. You should post a few more pics of your rifle and tell us what other loads you've experimented with. If I'm lucky, I should have all the parts for my own in about a year. Fingers crossed. Nice job.
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Here are a couple more pics of my rifle, with its Leupold VX3 2.5-8 scope and Montana sling. I initially tried the factory stuff that Hornady sells, with their DGX bullet. It shot like crap in this rifle. I immediately set out to handload, and have had the best luck with the 300 gr. Barnes TSX ahead of 72.0 gr. of RL15, and my favorite load, a 270 gr. Barnes TSX ahead of 81.0 gr. of Big Game. Chrono velocity corrected to muzzle is 2800 fps for this load, ME around 4700 ft lb. It is also a very accurate load. All of the rounds I have tried thru this rifle load and eject flawlessly- no hangups whatsoever. I really like this Ruger Hawkeye action. Weight of the rifle with scope and Ruger rings is a hair over 9 lb. I chose to use the 270 gr. load on my buffalo, largely on the recommendation of our own JJ Hack, who has used it in Africa on Cape Buffalo with good results.
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Did you chrono the 300 tsx's out of your ruger?
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Just checked my records- 300 gr. TSX, MV of 2580 fps, temp. 65 degrees.
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Here's a 3 shot, 100 yd. group with the 300 gr. TSX, 71.5 gr. of RL15, out of the Ruger- not all groups are this good, but some are.
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that's a damned fine looking hunting rifle. just the right weight for the caliber in my opinion and you can tote that baby round all day and shoot anything you like with it. well done.
i emailed Tanner pics Redneck took of my 375 i wish he could get them posted unless someone else wants to PM me their outside email addy.
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Looks great and shoots great. Can't get any better than that.
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Great shotin, almost 2600 with a 300 tsx is good medicine for just about anything. Makes me regret selling both of my 375 rugers.
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that's a damned fine looking hunting rifle. just the right weight for the caliber in my opinion and you can tote that baby round all day and shoot anything you like with it. well done.
i emailed Tanner pics Redneck took of my 375 i wish he could get them posted unless someone else wants to PM me their outside email addy.
I will post those up for you, sorry I've taken forever. First week of college has been hectic.
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thanks, buddy. study hard!
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Here ya are! I absolutely love that stock.
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Thanks. I just picked it up at the PO and it's an awfully nice rifle. It goes back out tomorrow for an NP3 coating on the bolt and the internals and the moving parts and when it comes back a new scope will go on it and I'll work up a load with it and then take it hunting. Can't wait.
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Nicest LH syn-stocked 375H&H I have seen.....
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That is a very nice 375, it looks like it will handle very well. Randy
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