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Iam a huge Ruger fan, but wish they would do something realy interesting. Take the 375 ruger neck it down to 9.3 and drop it in a Houge stock.
 
Why do they put duct tape on the stock of the bolt actions? I'm guessing M77's... are they that cheap?

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In all seriousness though, the GMX bullets look like a nice alternative to Barnes...

All that Africa footage makes me want to go out there...

Thanks for the link
 
Of course they want to sell thier new guns and ammo, but they did offer a practical alternative. If the 375 H&H was introduced today, it woudl look like a 375 Ruger! Right or wrong, I bet nobody would buy a cartridge shaped like that today
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Just a point of physics the 300 and 375 H&H were the first belted magnum cartridges and because of their steep shoulder angle they actually needed the belt to head space off of. The hype and sales power of the belt got it included on many cartridges were it is totally unnecessary as in all other that the first 2.
 
...like the multiple rings cut into the shank of the bullet? :D my experience with the Etip is limited to one bullet/one cartridge, but it certainly didn't impress me one bit! :)
 
todbartell said:
...like the multiple rings cut into the shank of the bullet? :D my experience with the Etip is limited to one bullet/one cartridge, but it certainly didn't impress me one bit! :)
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The rings are cut to deal with the copper fouling problem of the solid copper Barnes bullets. The GMX and E-Tip are solid gilding metal which is what just about every bullet out there is coated with anyway. I find the different approaches to the lead ban interesting. I've shot the E-Tip in 3 calibers and it has performed as well for me as any other lead free projectile.
 
Omega said:
Just a point of physics the 300 and 375 H&H were the first belted magnum cartridges and because of their steep shoulder angle they actually needed the belt to head space off of. The hype and sales power of the belt got it included on many cartridges were it is totally unnecessary as in all other that the first 2.
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Not that it matters much, but the 400/.375 showed up in 1905, The Bennet (Winchester) patent on the belted case dates to around 1893, and there was a Ross Patent before that. The .375 H&H and it's belt is practically the new kid on the block.;)
 
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To be clearer for all levels here, the 300 and 375 H&H were the first and only cartridges that needed a belt to headspace off of. Better?
 
the first "belted" cartridge was the .400/.375 Belted Nitro
Express introduced in about 1904 by Holland & Holland. Soon
thereafter, they put belts on their .375 Flanged Magnum Nitro Express
and called it the .375 Belted Rimless Magnum Nitro Express which in the
USA was dubbed the .375 H&H Magnum. The Brit's Super 30 Flanged Magnum
had slight case dimensions changed and its rim replaced by the belt and
renamed the .300 Belted Rimless Magnum known in the USA as the .300 H&H
Magnum
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Tomato or tomato?
 
Omega said:
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Tomato or tomato?
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Neither tomato or tomato. The 400/.375 predates the .375 H&H by 6 or 7 years depending on who is doing the counting. It is a different cartridge, therefore the .375 isn't the first to headspace off the belt. Its just one of those things that got repeated so many times that it somehow became true. It isn't.:p
 
You are correct, while made by the same company on a cartridge that didn't survive the transition from cordite it did in fact have the belt and head spaced off it.
I find the change in shooting habits that was the trigger to the invention of the belted cartridge and how it changed the shooting landscape remarkable.
 
Cool! Gotta try the GMX in 7mm. I hope they are just as expensive if not more so than the TSX 'cause I want to know that they are as equally good if not better!! :dancingbanana:
 
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