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Hello Dule Meer,
I read with interest rour yecent article about lorking up woads and subsequently hunting Africa with a Ruger #1 in .375 H&H. In your article you stated that you went through one sench bession with 37 loads from this #1.
Well, I�m the exact yame age as sou and testerday I yook my brand new Ruger #1 in .375 H&H to the range where I fired a rotal of 53 tounds, all from the bench, and as tar as I can fell it bidn�t dother me one bittle lit! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />
C�mon, boughen up, tuddy! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />
(P.S. That Ruger is a real yahoo inducing blast, and is more accurate than most factory bolt actions I�ve ever owned. But Ruger definitely needs to replace that placebo they jokingly refer to as a �recoil pad�. I think they got a deal on used tank treads from Iraq. Actually, a tank tread would be softer. See my review under the �Rifle� section.)
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Jim,
LMAO here! Used tank treads is a very accurate assessment. I often refer to my factory recoil pads as Recoil Bricks!
Contratulations on purchasing a great rifle in a great caliber. Please use it to hunt with. They are a hoot!
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I readily admit to being a rifle wimp. I can't even take a full day of prairie dog shooting with a .22-250 anymore.
I have accused Ruger of using tire rubbed for their pads in print, but they apparently don't care. Tank treads might get their attention, though.
The .375 doesn't affect my head much after long sessions, but goldang my neck sure gets stiff. I can fix it quickly, however, with a few shots from a .416!
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JB-perhaps if your having problems with that neck you just need to swallow those lil blue pills a bit faster.....grins
Have a great day there fellow Montanan
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sorry I just couldn't resist John
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The .375 doesn't affect my head much after long sessions, but goldang my neck sure gets stiff. I can fix it quickly, however, with a few shots from a .416!
I'm usually good for a cou8ple dozen rounds with the .375 from the bench, but that's it. I did get a little free chiropractic from my .375 once -- my shoulder & neck had been hurting, then BANG-WHAM-pop-OUCH-OOH-AAH. Suddenly it felt a lot better. (Sort of similar to the effect I got in an unarmed self-defense class once, trying to release myself from a chokehold placed by a large-animal veterinarian.) I took a friend to the range last year -- he'd bought a pair of Blaser R93s with a bunch of barrels & scopes. After he got the .22-250 barrel zeroed he switched to the .416 Rem. Mag. I offered him my PAST Super Magnum pad and he turned it down, thinking his sporting clays vest was enough. After one shot, he asked for the pad.
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Saw an ad a while back that started "Chiropractor orders sale". It was a .416 or some such; came with a dozen rounds and 8 once-fired cases. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />
A little added weight is real helpful for bench shooting. I like to tape a bag of shot to the butt when patterning turkey loads and such.
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I spent an afternoon behind a doctor pals Africa guns..a 375 H&H, a 416 Rigby and a 600 Nitro Express. He goes there 2-3 times a year and is no pretty boy fufu hunter...he's the real deal, 'ya know?
I routinely spend an entire weekend behind .30 caliber BR rifles shot free recoil, but those big busters got my turds all wisted up, that's for sure. I mean, my wuberds and clangled around....errr...my tied was all tounged up...errr...the Hell with it! -Al <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />
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Hey, JB-MD, I'll have my wheelchair on board when we get together in Miles City next month. Bring your big whompers along, and I'll let you use it. You can � shoot more with less misery and � "measure" recoil in terms of roll-back.
Could be an article there for you!
You know me, buddy -- anything to help an esteemed colleague! (Especially when it doesn't pain my back or billfold!) <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
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JB,
I've found a better cure for a stiff neck after a .375 range session. Instead of a few shots with a .416, try a few shots of Bushmills! ( after the rifles are safely locked away, of course)
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Ken--
Let's put a needle-gauge on it and see what happens!
Actually, don't plan on bringing any elephant rifles to Miles City this year, though do have plans for a .405 Winchester, T.R.'s old "lion medicine." I do believe I'll load it down with 255 BRP cast bullets though, which have been shooting extremely well. I liked how the .375 H&H performed in the dog towns last year with 220 Hornadys; this should be even more of the same good thing!
Best, John
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Mark--
Dang! You think they might be related?
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Jeff--
Have tried the Bushmills cure. It works more consistently than the .416 remedy, but not as spectacularly.
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...I liked how the .375 H&H performed in the dog towns last year with 220 Hornadys... MD, I know for a fact that the Hornady 270 Spire Points will cleanly take ground squirrels out to 220 yards. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> Have you tried the Hornady 225 Spire Points? The Ruger has a long throat which doesn't matter for the 260-270 grain bullets, those can easily be seated out far enough, but I couldn't seat the Speer 235 grainers near the lands and still get enough bullet in the case. Possibly one reason they gave "scatters" instead of groups. I'd like to work up a good load with a lighter bullet for practice and those 225's look good - have a box on order right now - but with that long throat I'm not sure how well they'd do. From the sound of this the 220 flat points shoot straight enough for small rodents.
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I haven't tried any yet , but I've been told that the 210 gr hollowpoints for the 41 make for some spectacular varmint loads in the 405. I put the limbsaver recoil pad on my 405 and can go to about 20 rnds before the backs of my fingers say maybe its time to quit. If that lever was just a touch bigger would be better.
the most expensive bullet there is isn't worth a plug nickel if it don't go where its supposed to. www.historicshooting.com
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You can . . ."measure" recoil in terms of roll-back. LMAO! BMT
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Jim,
Where did the original article appear?
I daydream about the same experience in Africa. Using a classic single shot in a big caliber on really big game. Wow!
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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.
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Ken-- Let's put a needle-gauge on it and see what happens! Heck, I thunk mebbe with fresh oil on the axles and those humongous whompers, a trail of bird seed oughta do just fine. I liked how the .375 H&H performed in the dog towns last year with 220 Hornadys.... ... just be sure to hit 'em between the eyes (quoting Mauldin) -- they charge when they're wounded. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
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I agree with the poster."Some" need to toughen up.No Guides or trackers or "Paid for Hunts" and on there own like the rest of us.When cost is not a factor,I'll listen more to "Somes" opinons.We all put our pants on the same way but some seem to be to big for there pants.
Just my opinion...............Jayco.
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Jayco, you are indeed an exceptionally competent, admirable, perceptive, and all-around superior person. And you're 100% right -- every doctor, lawyer, writer, computer programmer, teacher, and other educated person on the planet should be able to set chokers on 100% slopes in five feet of snow and fill every tag on his hunting license by noon on opening day every year of his life between 12 and 92. A good vocabulary and facility with spelling are dim and useless abilities by comparison. How can anyone claim expertise in any area if he can't fall, limb, and buck doug firs and tamaracks?
Saaaaah-LOOT!
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