The NEW KING is taking off!

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Most hunters on this continent have no need for a heavy recoiling gun with the trajectory of a 30/06. A short lived fad is all.
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Most hunters on this continent have no need for anything greater than a .308, but come hunting season I see lots of "magnums" and "Weatherby's" on the range being sighted in. Need has nothing to do with it. Sure the .375 H&H has made it's mark, but the .375 Ruger can be had in smaller framed more packable gun when you consider the Alaskan. With a .375 Ruger Alaskan you can hunt everything on any continent, it's as close to the perfect do all rifle that can be had at a reasonable price. Just wish it came in a grey laminate stock instead of the POS Hogue. The .375 Ruger will be around for a long long time, no worries!
 
bearkilr said:
Not likely. 90% of hunters can't handle and dislike the recoil and it's really not needed for anything in North America. The 300 WSM is far more versatile.

The 375 H&H was/is available in cheap rifles as the 375 Ruger is now. The recoil kept 99% of hunters away from it.

Most hunters on this continent have no need for a heavy recoiling gun with the trajectory of a 30/06. A short lived fad is all.
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I doubt any .375 will be as popular as a 30 caliber cartridge, but that is not what I meant. I mean that the 300WSM was predicted to die, and it flourished, and the 375 Ruger will do so as well, just within the parameters of a .375 cartridge.;)
 
joe-nwt said:
Youaren't trying to claim the 300WSM is the NEW KING of the 30's , are you?:p
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No, the 30-06 still has that sewn up.

X-fan said:
You seem delighted by this? :eek:

The rifle looks like it was put together by a wall street committee?
Pencil barrel...Club for a stock...Perfect noob killer. :D

Nasty excuse for a big bore :puke:
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Not delighted, just letting people know. I already have the NEW KING:p

Stock is a Hogue, same as on the Alaskan. Good at soaking up recoil, but unwieldy, which is why mine now sports a Macmilan.;)

Gunslinger said:
Most hunters on this continent have no need for anything greater than a .308, but come hunting season I see lots of "magnums" and "Weatherby's" on the range being sighted in. Need has nothing to do with it. Sure the .375 H&H has made it's mark, but the .375 Ruger can be had in smaller framed more packable gun when you consider the Alaskan. With a .375 Ruger Alaskan you can hunt everything on any continent, it's as close to the perfect do all rifle that can be had at a reasonable price. Just wish it came in a grey laminate stock instead of the POS Hogue. The .375 Ruger will be around for a long long time, no worries!
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Exactly. I see guys that think they need a .338 WM to kill a moose with, when a 30-06 is more than capable. TO each their own...;)

I wouldn't hesitate ot hunt anything in north america with a 30-06 or 7RM, they will definitely get the job done. But like many hunters, I like different guns and cartridges, and since I *can* have as many as I want- I do. As they say- Need has NOTHING to do with it ;)
 
Gunslinger said:
Most hunters on this continent have no need for anything greater than a .308, but come hunting season I see lots of "magnums" and "Weatherby's" on the range being sighted in. Need has nothing to do with it. Sure the .375 H&H has made it's mark, but the .375 Ruger can be had in smaller framed more packable gun when you consider the Alaskan. With a .375 Ruger Alaskan you can hunt everything on any continent, it's as close to the perfect do all rifle that can be had at a reasonable price. Just wish it came in a grey laminate stock instead of the POS Hogue. The .375 Ruger will be around for a long long time, no worries!
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Like this one:

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Sako AV, 21" bbl. in a Brown Precision stock ,375 H&H of course. Nothing that died from it has ever cared about 150 fps. :D
 
Hello from remote Zimbabwe, yes, the internet's made it even here (satellite, at $3,700 US per year). Sitting under a thatch roof, on a laptop. On the conservancy here, been culling, and let me tell you there is only one king... the H&H. My god this cartridge just works. Flaming hot here, and the tapered case is working wonders on extraction, the fine dust causes chambering issues on some straight walled bottleneck cases as well. The H&H is the way to roll, folks here don't even know what the Ruger is.

I took a Cape Buffalo bull, massive at 1 ton live weight, with one shot, a 300gr TSX neck shot. Two more were put in his back as insurance, as the PH said, many a dead buffalo has got up and killed people. In fact, he hung onto for a minute or so. Also been culling Impala, the .375 works wonders on those tough little buggers. I can definitely see the need to use the H&H if coming here as well, as TONS of baggage goes missing coming here (4 borders between home and here), and your ammunition has to be packed separately in its own locked case and there is a VERY good chance it won't make it. .375 H&H is available everywhere here, if you ask for .375 Ruger, they'll still hand you H&H and think you're confused. For North America, sure the Ruger's fine, for Africa, at least in the backwoods like here, heck no! .375 Ruger may be the new prince, but never king. ;)
 
Ardent said:
Hello from remote Zimbabwe, yes, the internet's made it even here (satellite, at $3,700 US per year). Sitting under a thatch roof, on a laptop. On the conservancy here, been culling, and let me tell you there is only one king... the H&H. My god this cartridge just works. Flaming hot here, and the tapered case is working wonders on extraction, the fine dust causes chambering issues on some straight walled bottleneck cases as well. The H&H is the way to roll, folks here don't even know what the Ruger is.

I took a Cape Buffalo bull, massive at 1 ton live weight, with one shot, a 300gr TSX neck shot. Two more were put in his back as insurance, as the PH said, many a dead buffalo has got up and killed people. In fact, he hung onto for a minute or so. Also been culling Impala, the .375 works wonders on those tough little buggers. I can definitely see the need to use the H&H if coming here as well, as TONS of baggage goes missing coming here (4 borders between home and here), and your ammunition has to be packed separately in its own locked case and there is a VERY good chance it won't make it. .375 H&H is available everywhere here, if you ask for .375 Ruger, they'll still hand you H&H and think you're confused. For North America, sure the Ruger's fine, for Africa, at least in the backwoods like here, heck no! .375 Ruger may be the new prince, but never king. ;)
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Congrats on your Buff!:dancingbanana:

There have been a number of reports from the Accurate Reloading (The webs premier African hunting forum) about supplies of .375 Ruger ammo showing up here and there. It's depends on where you are in Africa.

People take all sorts of cartridges to Africa to hunt all the time. Chances are if it's not .30-06, 7x57, .375 H&H or .458 WM and a few others, it's not sitting on the shelf at the local sporting emporium.

It doesn't stop people from taking their double rifle or bolt guns chambered in old, obsolete or exotic cartridges or new cartridges either. Somehow people have managed to hunt Africa using the NEW KING as well as just about every other cartridge under the hot African sun...;)

The .375 H&H is a great cartridge, but it's no longer the KING of the .375's....ALL HAIL THE 375 RUGER, THE NEW KING OF THE 375's!!

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