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Right on!

ya know, Dober-
my local Sportsman's has a Rem 700 XCR in 375 H&H that has been sitting on the shelf for months.

Maybe I should give it a good home...

Now you're talking brother Tim!

Chop shop it to 21", give it a 6x36 Leo with LR dotz in it and you'll be golden!

Dober

I like the sounds of that...

not to hijack the thread but I just had to sell that rifle and an even nicer win 70 custom in 458 Lott. It was one of the nicest all around hunting rifles a guy could have. I'll have another one some day.

Josh,
I had a Ruger magnum in 375 and one in 416 Rigby that I had to sell, so I know what you mean!


416 Rigby on the top.
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Tim: Those are both very nice.

Thanks Bob.

The 375 in particular was a ball to shoot, and talk about smooth feeding.

Just too heavy to carry around though, I think if the 375 at least, had been about 2 pounds lighter I would have kept it and eaten Ramen for a couple of months!

BC,

I'll post these and duck...

Now that I've lived with this rifle a while, I've gained a lot of of respect for the Savage FSS 116 WW 375 H&H. It IS light! It is also the most accurate 375 I have owned, and the most accurate of the many I've shot. For years when I was younger I mounted scopes and sighted in customers' guns. I shot many 375's back then. For it's price, the Savage can't be beat...and it has a sort of CRF set up. I am liking the AccuTrigger more every time I shoot the gun. I bought it for a tough, wet terrain elk hunt and am satisfied I did the right thing. I have two other 375's, but both are much heavier, and one is less accurate.









It has a sufficiently long action for the 375, also, and needs no slot at the top rear of the front receiver ring like the 98 Mausers.

...same here...they are nice safari style rifles, but they are HEAVY!...Timney triggers sure made them shooters, too. I hated to have to part with mine.

Thanks for posting that.

I don't know why anyone should feel the need to duck because he's shooting a Savage. I've seen and handles European big-buck rifles that close to ten times the Savage you pictured, that wouldn't handle as well - or shoot nearly as well.

Savages are amazingly well thought out. They've figured out how to out-shoot rifles made by other companies - and do it far cheaper than many of their competitors. Rather than apologizing for owning a good shooting Savage - I'm more inclined to think other shooters with much more expensive rifles - brands that often don't shoot as well as the average Savage - should wonder why the brands they support don't shoot better than they do.

Rifle snobbery be dammed.

If a gun shoots - it shoots. If it feeds - it feeds. If it feels right in your hands - who cares what other's think?

If they can figure out how to make them shoot better than some of the other brand names, why can't they figure out how to make them better looking at the same time...?

Beauty is as beauty does, and is in the eye of the beholder!

I guess...

Luv2safari:

I looked in Savage's online catalog but could not find your .375 rifle.

Did they discontinue it, by chance?

Did you look at the 116FSS Weather Warrior section, clear at the bottom?? It's there.

Ah, I must have missed it...

Thank you!

As hard as it is to find, you would think they wanted to keep it a secret...

Speaking of lightweight 375s, has anyone had experience with the Remington XCR 375 ouch and ouch?