Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Express Rifles and Big Bores Only 375 H & H..If you have one or a 375 Ruger, what do you use it for in the U.S.

Good looking' buff, badger!

lucky the buff hunters didn't have .375's, or the buffalo would be extinct for sure.....

Mine are paper punchers. I can see bigger holes easier.

375 ruger makes good hog medicine. Definately overkill but tons of fun!

Shot a doe last year at 50 yards and to my amazement, there was no pass through! 260gr accubonds at a little over 2800 and a perfect mushroom just under the hide on the far side. While the internal damage was impressive, there was very little bruised meat outside of the direct bullet path.

WyoCoyoteHunter, I have used a .375 exclusively since 1982. A factory Win. Model 70 H&H until 1989 when I had a semi-custom .375 AI built on a Win. Model 70 action. I use it for all of my big game hunting even use it occasionally for prairie dogs or coyotes. memtb

I have been looking for a 375 Ruger for my local pig hunting just because! No plans to hunt out of the CONUS but I like big bores and seem to shoot them better...

I got the 375 Ruger Guide Gun and love it. It is well balanced and a pleasure to shoot. It would put the hammer down on those pig for sure.

I'm picking up a 375 guide gun.... when I find one.

Short Answer: Everything.

I have the H&H, the Ruger, and the 375 Weatherby. All can be used on simply everything. Add the 378 as well. If this caliber has limits in my hunting I have not reached them. Still, someday want to find a nice Marlin in 375 Winchester just because...

I have a Whitworth 375 H&H and have shot several elk with it, have killed one Bison with it, and have lent it to my hunting partner and he killed a couple of elk with it. I also shot a coyote at about 225 yards with it. Don't need that much power, but why would anyone not want a 375, they're great.

Bart

My 375 H&H, loaded with 77 grains of WW760 under a 270 grain hornady and a 215 federal primer has worked in my sako carbine for decades, when I'm still hunting elk in the thicker timber areas,yes a 2.5x or 4x Leopold scope is my choice ranges seldom exceed 150 yards in fact Id be surprised if the average shot exceeded 100 yards

Not an H&H or a Ruger.............. but I use my .375 Bee for our bigass PA black bears.......... and the little ones, too. Around these parts you never know if the next bear is gonna be 70 pounds or 700.

250 gr. SGK's at 3060 fps work quite smartly on either one.

My H&H has killed muleys, whitetails, antelope, elk and wolf, plus some other random smaller critters.

More of a novelty than anything else, but I like the rifle.

I have a 375 Bee too. Shoots 300g bullets as flat as a 30-06 can shoot 180 grainers and can shoot 375 H&H factory if you want to. Does kick a tad. A nice caliber

They're hard to beat. Yep.

First couple shots I took from mine (8 1/2 lbs scoped & loaded) I had my hands full. But, just like anything else, there's a bit of a learning curve. Now I rather like to shoot it. Even prone if I have to. Don't find it hateful at all. There's a few local bears that would have probably disagreed, though.

My 375 Ruger has only been used in Namibia, but has been carried on a couple dry run elk hunts here in WY

That's a Bloody awesome rifle and choice of sights. Very nice.

THANK YOU!

its a rifle I saw advertized about 25 to 35 years ago in one of the shotgun news papers and I decided on the spot to order one ,after looking at the pictures, its proven to be, at least for me the near ideal dark timber spot and stalk and still hunting combo, the only thing I needed to do was bed the rifle action into the stock and epoxy in two
6 inch long, parallel 1/4" sections of screw thread rod under the barrel so 3" of each rod section extended into the fore end and back into the main stock in groove I routed into the fore end,this was necessary because recoil from a 375 H&H without that mod allowed the forward wood (separate stock section with joint under front barrel band)to slide forward, once that was done the rifles been very accurate and dependable,for decades and with several elk and a dozen or more mule deer, to its credit.
the bedding mod is not visible and I can,t see why the factory did not make a one piece stock

Bought my .375H&H to go to Africa. Now I have used it for deer and elk when in bear country. I've even shot a bunny rabbit with it at camp to put in the stew pot. Fun to shoot and no I don't feel over gunned for rabbit, he was just undersized for the bullet.

It's my favorite cartridge; throughout my life I have had many rifles chambered for it. Though I occasionally use it for deer, it's my elk and everything Alaska rifle.

I don't know, but everyone wants one. Late '70s and '80s, I did the gun show thing. Bought and sold guns and knives to pay college expenses for my trio of young ladies.

I never understood why, but I never took a .375 or a .458 to a show that did not sell. I think it is to do with macho man. Most of us have at least a mild case. I only recall selling one to a guy that was actually headed to Africa. He was already booked and was willing to give asking price for a pre-64.

I did get busted by a friendly LGS who had sold me lots of them at nice prices. He came to a show one Sunday afternoon and saw me sell a pre64 M70 at 500 over what I had given him a couple of weeks prior. Prices at his shop went up. Good while it lasted.

I shot only two while I had them. A 70 as above and a Browning Safari (long extractor) that I was considering keeping. I had no trouble grouping both well on paper, but that is way more recoil than I cared to tolerate for a deer, even from a standing bench. Decided that if Africa or Kodak came my way, I would buy one, then sell it upon return.

Jack