I believe it was Handloader, December 2003 - I just looked it up on the Wolfe publishing website
www.riflemagazine.com and it is not a featured article so you can't read it online.
But, If I Recall Correctly - it is the article "375 H&H All Purpose Cartridge" on page 30.
JB would know for sure.
Good article (okay, one could probably have a rubber stamp made up that says "Good Article" and apply it to all of John's work) - it tells of his work with the Ruger #1 and his use of it in Africa. He used an NEG peep sight on his rifle.
If my eyes were 10 years younger I would go with that NECG peep sight and be done with it, but I have a hard time focusing on the front bead anymore. I can see it and could hit game at 100 yards or so, but I don't have that fine 250-300 yard accuracy with irons that I used to. Currently I have my old trusty long tube Leupie 4X on this #1. Got about three nice Vari-X III 2.5-8's sitting in the closet but..I really think I'm going to sight in the issue open rear sight dead on at 100, mount a brand new Leupie M8 4X in Warne detachables and call it good.
A little philosophy thrown in here - I'm not a real Ruger #1 fan per se, I mean, I like the rifle in general, just not all the different variations to the extent of some. But I value KISS in all things, and there is something so simple yet so apt for near everything about the #1 in .375 H&H, it eliminates so much complication and obfuscation, it really, really floats my boat. "One planet, one rifle, one shot" - something like that.
All the arguments so popular in our world of firearms - PF, CRF, marginal for elk, overkill on deer, too fast, too slow, too heavy, too light, twilight factors, exit pupils, ruggedness of variables - I just want to say "awww phooey" - give me an 8 1/2 pound single shot .375 H&H and a tough as nails Leupold 4X scope and I'm good to go on damn near everything in the world with the possible exception of charging dangerous game. And even there there was a boatload of fellows in buckskins or pith helmets who faced grizzlies and lions with single shot black powder rifles and lived to tell the tale! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
FWIW - I've got 3 "full custom" rifles and 2 others that have been rebarreled and worked over, and besides this #1, you know which other rifle really stikes an emotional chord in me? My factory stock Model 70 LT in .30-06! It currently wears a Leupie 2.5-8 but I have this huge hankering to mount a nice Leupie 4X on it and just quit worrying about all that other stuff.
