Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles Let’s see your .375’s....

FN Mauser action, custom I just completed a few months ago

Remington 700 KS Mountain left hand. Speer 235.

i don`t think shrapnel or myself are afraid to shoot a 375 H&H rifle that is not ported off the bench ,its just we don`t care too ,its just not fun anymore .

My first Win.Model 70 (on right) that I got in the early ‘80’s. Love the rifle, shoots unbelievably good…..very tame on the bench, but far too heavy to hunt with.

The one on the left is my Win. Model 70 (semi-custom) AI that I had put together starting in late ‘89 and received in Feb of ‘90! Light enough (9 lbs 1 oz fully loaded ready to hunt) to hunt with without punishment on the bench. It’s been my only hunting rifle since I got it!

When I had it built, I thought I wanted a brake (wasted money)…..removed it, never to be seen again. Hell…..I might have used it for a trout line sinker! 😉 I do use a PAST recoil shield when shooting from the bench, I started using it about 5 or 6 years ago…. This getting old stuff sucks! 😁

My AI isn’t as pretty as many shown here……but, it’s a well used “hunting” rifle. I just got (Birthday/Christmas) 4 boxes of Barnes 270 gr. LRX’s which I will build a load with this summer…..hoping for accuracy and 3000+ velocity! memtb

The technique from a bench is to set up the equipment so your torso is as erect as possible when firing. I have a pile of Caldwell sandbags I use when working with the 375 & 400.

Low front & back shooting rests and a low seating position results in a hunched over shooting posture that's guaranteed to deliver recoil to a torso not positioned to roll with the punch.

'Course lightweight "mountain rifles" chambered in these cartridges doesn't help either...

Sold my 375 Ruger----those days are behind me.

here's my 375 H&H AI




Here's my 375 Win


Here's my 375 Whelen AI

Love this Dakota .375 H&H…

https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbt...dakota-375-h-h-nf-2-5-10x32#Post18037020

Nice bunch of 375's Bugger!

Thanks. I like them. I believe I'll be buying a 375 suppressor and threading the Whelen and the H&H.

Wow, after seeing all of these, I wish that I hadn’t sold my .375 JDJ barrel for my Contender. If for no other reason ….the Photo OP! 😁

Nice rifles guys….. I had no idea that there would be so many AI’s! You boys have good tastes! 😉 memtb

The big AI is quite the hammer.

270's at 3000 is quite a load Memtb! I need to give them a whirl in mine one of these days.

I’m not there yet…..but think it’s doable! I got 3160, with no obvious issues, with my 250 TTSX’s, before backing down to 3130 for accuracy reasons! 3K + may be a “pipe dream” …but it’s a goal to “shoot” (pun intended) for! 😉 memtb

I'm in the .375s suck camp.

Several years ago I had one in a 700 Classic. I shot a good bit of paper with it along with some really good groups. Shot a deer with it for kicks and sold it. Recently got to wanting another one for a buffalo hunt and found an Interarms WhitWorth. I do not remember my 700 being that snappy. The gun, while shootable is not enjoyable at all. The buffalo hunt isn't gonna happen any-time soon anyway and that gun is now down the road. Various 300s and 338s are fine, but the .375 is where I draw the line.

Ok, here you go......
Lj

I have 2, but don't have pics taken. An early Rem. custom shop 700 in .375 H&H and a Rifles, Inc. Strata in same caliber. Only have used them to shoot hogs, but have a brown bear hunt coming up in June where the Rifles, Inc. will be carried.

I sold my 375 H&H Whitworth because it was 'too much fun'. I only had it to the range once. I suspected poor stock fit for me.

I built my .375 RUM for a Cape Buffalo hunt in Zimbabwe in 2005. It's a 26" stainless Rem 700 barreled action that I put in a Richards laminated stock. I pillar and glass bedded the action, glass bedded the barrel channel and free floated the barrel, and fitted a Limbsaver pad on it. I then hand checkered the stock with my favorite 5 panel wrap around checkering pattern.

The first time that I took it out to the range it kicked so bad that I didn't finish sighting it in. A KDF muzzle brake tamed the recoil enough that I could develop 3 shot moa loads with 300 grain Barnes TSX bullets at 2900 fps.




I took it to the Eastern Cape of South Africa in 2007 for a strictly plains game hunt. For that hunt I worked up another 3 shot moa load, this time with 700 grain TSX bullets at 3043 fps. For that hunt I added a recoil reducer in it's shock which further tamed it's recoil enough that I comfortably shot several animals from prone positions.


It then sat in my safe until 2021 when I took it to SW Alaska for a Brown Bear hunt. On this hunt I worked another 3 shot moa load for it with 281 grain Hammer Hunter bullets at 3034 fps.