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I've been prepping my 375 H&H for a PG hunt, and I've got it sighted in 2.6" high at 100 yards with 270 grain TSX. This gives me a point blank range of 268 yards and a max trajectory of 2.75 inches. Thoughts? Velocity is 2643, and this load will stack five in the same hole over and over again.

i used 235tsx with same hight you have do nothing !!!!! blast away i took everything from impala at 50 yds and eland at 325 yds point and shoot take lots of pics

Be sure to shoot it at 10 yards and 25 yards, at least once each.
I found out that I WOULD have liked to know (that you need to aim higher up close).

Sight it spot on at 100 yds...

Sight it spot on at 100 yds....


I'll check back later and tell you again...

Ingwe

So, dead-on at 100? Really? I'm dead-on at 200 but I'm more than willing to change. Its a couple of inches. When its eland, I figure that the difference, as our friend Steelie would note, is Volkswagen vs. Mini. . .

Yeah...but....most shots will be at that range ( 100 yds) and as you said..an Eland.... at 200 yards youll still hit well within its Buick sized vitals, and meanwhile, smaller stuff..Impala, Baboon, etc closer up where you might have to "thread the needle" through brush...will constitute more of your shots...

Can best sum it up by telling you about Mr. .300 Ultra mag...
insisted that he be sighted 3 inches high at 200 yds.( ! )
A very expensive waterbuck trophy fee walked in front of him at 100 yds.....short version...he paid the trophy fee, but doesn't have the trophy...


spot on at 100 yds...


Ask your PH....



Ingwe

If your shots are anything like mine 50 yds-250yds most thru forks in trees and small openings you will be happy you took Ingwe's advice. Sight in dead on at 100! You not only have to sneak the shot thru some pretty tiny openings, you have to hit the animal in the vitals. Just thinking about it makes my anticipation of returning almost boil... good luck!

Okay, well, that's why I asked. I'm taking a .300 Weatherby as well, so I guess I can always fall back on that one if it's wide open.

Thanks!

I would also say dead on or at most 1 inch high at 100. Have fun!

Very sound advice. I now understand why you recommended it. Thanks!

i have sighted in my 375 both dead on and 3 inches high at 100 the three high is great with a 270 grain barnes tsx behind 84 grains of imr 4350 but if i was going to africa i would sight dead on at 100 yards and if the range gets long and you miss aim the second shot i foot high most likley you will connect it has worked for me until i started messing with the 375 for a long range elk rifle which is about as good as it gets oh i have traded my sudtom 340 weatherby for that role and the 338 winchester is great but wont beat the 340 weatherby

I'll throw a little curve at you all. Dead on at 150 means that you will be no higher or lower than one inch from muzzle on out to 175 yards...

Manny

I sight my guns in at about 2.5 in. high at 100 and sometimes 3 inches that is where you will get the flatest trjectory that one can normally use in big game hunting...It will usually be 4 inches high at 200 and on at about 275 with most rifles or calibers..

ALWAYS check your particular gun at 100, 200 and 300 yards and a 400 and 500 yard test is damn good insurance..Then you KNOW, no guessing...

Most African PHs sight their guns in dead on at 100 yards, but they have spent most of their lives in game rich areas and they mostly never take long shots and most don't shoot well at extended ranges I have found probably because of the 100 yard sight in and the necessity not to need to, is my guess..

However, some folks really tend to shoot high and cannot handle the 2.5 to 3 inch at 100 yards..It has never been a problem for me as long as I know where it shoots then I can remember to hold accordingly..but many cannot when it comes to shooting game, they seem to ignore the sight in, so for them the 100 yard dead on may be a better alternative.

Suppose it would depend, to a degree, on where you will be hunting. What is the terrain like? Thick bushveld or more open areas? What does your PH or outfitter suggest for that area?

Sighting it in at 100 yards so you can shoot through openings in the bush might only pay off if the bush is 100 yards away.

Like Ray said it depends alot on the shooter. I live in Iowa so I have always hunted with a shotgun or muzzleloader for deer. IE need holdover if the shot gets 200 or more yards. If I get in a pressured quick shot situation and the game is 200 yards or farther I start holding up. So for me it is much easier to hold up than down on game at 200 yards. Dean

I'll be hunting about 30 minutes outside of Windhoek, Namibia. It looks fairly open based on the pics that I've seen. I actually really like the suggestion to sight it dead on at 150 yards. That does put it about an inch high at 100, and 1" low at 175.

It seems hard to go wrong like that. If I ever make it on a bear hunt, I can't see why I'd even need to change it.

Go with what you are comfortable with, and can use without thinking about it...Ive hunted that area...you'll do fine..

ingwe

My shortest shot on my plains game hunt in Namibia was about 80 yards (Kudu) and my longest was 302 yards (zebra). The other shots were three into a gemsbok at 150, 175 yards and 225 yards (they can take some punishment) a wartie at 150 yards, a steenbok at 100 yards and a springbok at 260 yards.

I had my 375 H&H set up at 2" high at 100 yards (-10" at 300 yards) with the 300 grain TSX

I like 2.5" high at 100yds. I used dead on at 100yds on my first trip to Africa, in Zimbabwe's less open jess and mixed cover, and found that sight in far less than optimal. Even in the jess or the mixed cover there are open areas and dry river beds where longer shots are regularly offered.

In more open country, a 100yd sight in could be a disaster. Often the interval between when the game is spotted, evaluated and it is time to shoot or loose the opportunity is limited, and the faster the hunter can get set up on shooting sticks, or off hand, stting, with a sling or using whatever support is handy is the difference between success and not.

Best not have to be calculating holdover in those brief moments.

Sighting in 2.5" high at 100yds provides a trajectory requiring no hold over or hold under from the muzzle out to about 250yds for a 270gr bullet from a 375H&H on any size game from tiny grysbok to large eland. If the game is further away than 250yds there will more than likely be time to evaluate and determine 1. if you ought to take the shot in the first place, and 2. what holdover you need.

BTW, form my observations here and in Africa, and according to the African PH's I have hunted with and talked to, most poor shots and misses are high, not low. Also, much African game has their vitals a bit further forward and lower than comparable North American game.

JPK

If you sight in a .375 at 3 inches high at 100 yards with a 270 gr. bullet, it will be 4 inches high at 200 on the money at 250, 5 inches low at 300 and bout a 12 inches low at 400...

With that or a 2.5" high setting at 100 you can pretty well hold center mass an get a hit at any range from point blank to 300 or so yards...

But always test your particular gun at each of those ranges at your home range and record them before you go on your hunt, as guns can vari by an inch or so as can loads.

To sight in at 100 or 150 is setting yourself up for long range misses IMO, but then that is up to the shooter, we all do it differently..