Anyone shooting a 375 Ruger?

[LanceS4803]

I've handled the new Mossberg Patriot 375 Ruger rifle twice now. At the NRA Show and NWTF.
After almost two years of production delays, it is finally out for sale and I am still very intrigued, especially since it is only $460.
Has anyone show a 375 Ruger (very comparable to 375 H&H)?
Yeah, since I don't have a grizzly or African safari pending, I realize it is not real practical.

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[Hunter 257W]

For some reason the newer cartridges that mimic the old classic African cartridges have never appealed to me. I've always wanted a 416 Rigby but when Remington brought out their 416, then Weatherby too, neither excites me regardless of ballistics or any advantages they may or may not have. The same for the 375 H&H vs. the 375 Ruger. Those old classics are interwoven with old Africa and the foot safaris. They are mentioned in countless classic books of adventure. Even with a newly manufactured gun chambered for one of them, a rifle that has never been out of the continental US, just the chamber mark on the barrel conjours up images of African adventure. With the new cartridges, all I see is a bullet weight and velocity and resulting energy level. The magic is simply not there. But now that's just me. And I'll admit it makes no logicial sense either. The 300 grain .375 bullet doesn't care what cartridge got it up to 2,500fps when it leaves the muzzle and it will work as well as the old classic.

As far as practicality is concerned, I bought a 460 Weatherby purely to see what "The Most Powerful Production Rifle on Earth" was like. If you want a 375 Ruger "just because", I sure won't say you are crazy.

 

[Sniper]

I have both the 375 and 416 Ruger. Love both of them and have shot all kinds of things with both of them. I had a 375 H&H and sold it. Much prefer the shorter action of the Ruger cartridges and the more compact rifle going through the bush. I haven't looked at the rifle you referred, I have the Ruger Hawkeye Africans.

 

[LanceS4803]

For some reason the newer cartridges that mimic the old classic African cartridges have never appealed to me.

The mystic of the old classic cartirdges is certainly there for me, but they also come with a big price. $2k to $15k on gunbroker. Heck, even a Ruger, with my law enforcement discount, is still at $900.
Truth be told, a 416 sounds nice, but I've never fired anything that large (M2HB doesn't count).

 

[BobTail]

WOW. According to the recoil table the 375 Ruger recoils TWICE as much as my 338 Federal.

No thanks ....... I couldn't deal with that. You guys are much more of a man than I am.

 

[mr.big]

I would LOVE a Brno 602 375 H&H,,

I have shot my brothers Ruger 77 375 H&H and it knocks the crap out of stuff,,he loads some cast bullets in it with a mild charge and it is really fun to shoot,,

 

[Sniper]

You can load it down and I've yet to shoot a rifle that kicks harder than a 3.5" turkey load. These large calibers are not ones you will take and shoot a box of shells through at the range. About 12 rounds at a time is about all I can do and maintain accuracy at full power loads.

 

[GOODWIN]

You can load it down and I've yet to shoot a rifle that kicks harder than a 3.5" turkey load. These large calibers are not ones you will take and shoot a box of shells through at the range. About 12 rounds at a time is about all I can do and maintain accuracy at full power loads.

No kidding. A 3.5" turkey load out of a lightweight shotgun is miserable.

 

[Harold Money jr]

We bought a .375 Ruger Hawkeye for a friend moving to Alaska. I shot it at his house and it was very pleasant to shoot. I have shot a Rem 700 .375 h&h in Africa it was pretty stout. Just about all I wanted for accurate shooting.

 

[Snowwolfe]

I owned a couple of 375 H&H's and sold them all after picking up a Ruger 375. My only complaints with the Ruger is it took some fiddling with the spring in the magazine to feed the middle round correctly. And you need to insure the cases are lubed properly before resizing them as they are difficult to resize.

 

[Hunter 257W]

According to my calculations a 8lb 12 gauge shooting the 3 1/2" shells loaded with 2 1/4 ounces shot at 1,150fps delivers 56 foot-lbs of recoil.

A 460 Weatherby rifle weighing 11 lbs (with scope) shooting a 500 grain bullet using 122 grains of IMR 4350 at 2,700fps delivers 107 foot-lbs of recoil.

The most of these loads I have ever fired at one time was 18. I was shooting from the standing position where my shoulder had the maximum "give" and my arm was getting numb at that point so I decided to quit. I am not man enough to fire the 500 or 600 grain loads from the bench. I fired only two from that position and even then I had a shot bag filled with sand between the gun and my shoulder and another sand bag across the barrel at the front of the stock forearm. I had the bags that were supporting the rifle up high so that I wasn't leaned into the buttstock like I would be with a normal rifle. At both shots, I was pushed back so hard that the bag in front of my shoulder was thrown off the table onto the ground. I won't ever shoot a 500 grain load from a bench again. Seriously i worry about it busting the stock assuming you could find a shooter that could bear up to that kind of punishment.

The 300 grain load at around 2,900 fps in contrast is about perfect to make you feel macho yet be fun to shoot. And I can verify that it wallops a deer real good.

 

[Hunter 257W]

I would LOVE a Brno 602 375 H&H,,

I have shot my brothers Ruger 77 375 H&H and it knocks the crap out of stuff,,he loads some cast bullets in it with a mild charge and it is really fun to shoot,,

I keep meaning to get some Trail Boss and see how it does with the 500 grain Lee .458 mold I have for use in the 460. I've always just loaded that bullet at "almost full power" level for fooling around but never hunted with them or done any serious shooting. It's great for busting concrete blocks, busting up firewood, and general experimenting as to how much of something the rifle will shoot through. Nothing beats the Hornady steel jacketed 500 grain solid in that category though. Those things will go through unbelievable amounts of wood or paper.

A full case of Trail Boss should make it more like the old 45-70 original load and be a ton of fun with the heavy Weatherby rifle.