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270 TSX are hard to beat, but almost any decent bullet 250-300gr will kill anything that walks in alaska. They don't make too many varmint bullets in 375 caliber.

Nuthin' like the little 235 gr. Speers for an afternoon of plinkin'...

Actually, there's the Horny 225 Spire Point.

I've farted around with 235 gr cast boolits and 90 gr round balls. If I could just get those spheres to fly straight . . .

I've got the Speers flying true using H4895...haven't yet tried those 225's.

Any loaded ammo from the big three will work just fine.

Puddle- Getting ready to give the 235's a try. Have you loaded them with RL15? I have some H4895 on hand to try, if RL 15 wasnt favorable.

I gave RL15 a try, but the groups were just ho hum....speeding it up to H4895 did the trick - groups tightened up to inch or better. I used a max Hodgen book load.

I was looking for a 300 yard load and H4895 did it for me.

HTH,

Sorry- my fault! I was talking about 200 yard sight in- then drop at reasonable ranges out from there, not terminal energy, which of course is much more with 100 grains more lead with the .375. At extremme ranges the heavier slug will show more drop than the '06 180, but out to 500 or so, there is no practcal difference.

That makes ONE of us who thought he knew what I was talking about!

Any here tried the 300gr Accubond?

What sort of velocity you getting Dan? Can the 270gr TSX be run at 2400fps with good results & will they open up?

Also, how do you think a 300gr TSX would go at 2400fps, will it open up enough?

340 Wby, I'm sorry I can't give you an answer other than, "I don't really know."

I can tell you that the 270gr TSX in the photo came out of a 20" barrel. The load was 72.5 grains of RL-15, sparked by a Fed 215M, and I shot the bear at about 50 feet. But, unfortunately, I never ran this particular load over a chronograph.

I now have another .375H&H with a 21" barrel. I have some loads worked up, but I haven't been to the range to shoot them yet. I will try and remember to post the results when I get them.

I don't know what to tell you about the 300-grain TSX. I have no experience with them.

I have downloaded 286 gr. TSX in my 9,3x64 to 2100 fps MV. They opened up on 40 pound roedeer.

Now I run them at 2450 fps MV.

Thanks for that Dan




Holy smoke opened up on a roedeer at 2100, very nice indeed. It sounds like that 300gr TSX at 2400 would be a fine combo.

Although not my handloads, I have seen very good performance on two moose by the standard Hornady 270gr Interlock bullets in .375 H&H. Good sized mushrooms, good weight retention (not as pretty as Barnes X bullets though!). These bullets, and most other .375 bullets of 270 and 300gr weight are optimized for the velocities of the H&H... broadside shots exited, but with a raking shot a couple of bullets were recovered.

I have used the Barnes X 270gr bullet in my .375 H&H handloads which punched a broomstick-sized hole though a bull moose's ribcage and exited (another broadside shot). Left lots of pieces of lung scattered about the shooting place...but, as noted, it exited so no pretty pictures of a recovered bullet!

John

74 Grains of RL15 gets the 270TSX moving at 2700 out of a 24" M70.

Bullet failure with any 270 to 300 gr. .375 bullet is pretty hard for me to comprehend..I have shot so much stuff with that grand caliber that I think any kind of failure is just baloony. I have shot Kudu, Eland and Gemsbok with the lowly 235 gr. Speer, the 240 gr. Woodleigh and the 250 gr. Sierra with not a single complaint..thats a lot of lead and copper floating around in an animals work shop, most cannot survive it!

I still like the 300 gr. bullets and the 350 gr. woodleighs best for anything from dik dik to Elephant.

I'll take your word for it Ray. To my recollection, I've shot about two dozen porcupines (they explode) with the .375 H&H. Nothing else. A porky in a tree gives a fine rain of quills- you don't want to go out there bearfoot to take a leak afterwards.

When I was working USFS trail crew several decades ago, our issue firearm was a pre-64 M70 in .375. That's hard work, and we needed our sleep. Porkies that start chewing on your cabin or tent frame in the middle of the night just come back if run off- so a permanent solution was implemented after the first few encounters.

Klikitarik- you are a pretty good mind reader- I was indeed meaning trajectory, rather than ballistics.

That reminds me of a funny story.

My buddy and I decided that due to the excessive number of very fresh grizzly tracks around - we'd put our supplies in the tent - and we'd sleep in the bed of the truck - underneath the canopy.

I told my bud, that I'd bring the old Remington 760 30-06 with 220 grain roundnose Corelocks into the cab in case we had an "event" in the night. In the night I awoke to the truck being shaken. I woke my buddy - then he felt it. I said "It's chewing on the truck!" We looked out and the tent appeared to be moving too. I said - "I think her cubs are in the tent."

I said "Here's the plan" - "We'll open the back lid of the canopy real quiet - then we'll lower the tail-gate - which will make a noise - and might provoke the sow to attack - so I'll leap out with the gun and the flashlight - and you stay out of the way so you don't get shot - if the mother bear attacks."

My buddy still likes to talk about the drama of the situation.He says he still chuckles as he sees me launch out of the truck in my underwear - flashilight and rifle in hand - then he hears me swear - then he hears a shot - then he hears me run off into the woods.

I didn't actually kill a sow that night. There were no cubs in our tent - that was the wind. When I jumped out - flashlight lit and rifle at my side - a porcupine shot out from under the truck - it had been chewing at parts under the truck - and the swearing, was me wondering if it had chewed through the brake-lines or something - the 220 grain round made short work of the porcupine - complete penetration.

Someday, when I get old and forgetful, the story might morph into us being attacked by a sow with cubs - and my killing it with one shot in the dark - but the truth is - it was only a damn porcupine!

Federal loads the 300TSX to 2470 and it expands just fine on deer, and presumably larger game. In fact I am just going to stick with that load for anything I hunt.