Originally Posted by ANDY_GRAY
I had one built after that article came out about it. It was very accurate with nothing but clover leaf groups at 100 yards, but horrible kick. Recoil was a sudden shock, not the push of a 375 or 416. It was much worse than a 340 Weatherby. Nobody that shot it had ever shot anything with that severe a jolt. It broke a Leopold scope ring and cracked the fully inletted and bedded McMillan stock. It makes me wonder how bad the Ruger 375 kicks? AJ


What were the ballistics of the .425 Express? Did it use the .423 bullets of the .404 Jeffery, or the .435 bullets of the .425 Westley-Richards?

The .375 Ruger doesn't kick badly at all. It kicks more than a .308, but it's not a big deal if you shoot big-bore rifles at all.

Dennis

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