300 H and H

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Well I'd love to get one one day to match my 375. I think an old browing safari would be nice if I could find one. Would be really nice if Winchester offered one too! Please share your experiences and photos with this great cartridge.
 
I've had a No. 1 in .300 H&H for two years now. I use 200 grain ABs over H4831 at 2900 fps. It certainly doesn't give anything up to the .300 WM and would be an awesome choice for a project if you wanted to turn a current production M70 into one.

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sharp shooter said:
Well I'd love to get one one day to match my 375. I think an old browing safari would be nice if I could find one. Would be really nice if Winchester offered one too! Please share your experiences and photos with this great cartridge.
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Bloody accurate cartridge, for a 300 magnum! I had one in a Ruger #1 and jettisoned it out of the safe, along with another rifle for a Mauser M12. I kept my brass and dies knowing that I will build one using a Winchester Model 70 long/magnum action. I only had it for one year where it served it's purpose.

 
Isn't the 300H&H what was used to win either Bisley or Camp Perry wayyyy a long time ago? Suppose to be an accurate cartridge even though it doesn't fall into the "short/fat" design.
 
My friend just had one built - Stiller action, Pac-Nor barrel, McMillan stock and topped off with a Leica ER 2.5-10x42. It is a nice modern take on a classic old cartridge. I really like the H&H but having seen the bill to buy 5 boxes of Nosler brass - ($476 for 125) made me think that I am not THAT much into it right now. :)
 
1899 said:
My friend just had one built - Stiller action, Pac-Nor barrel, McMillan stock and topped off with a Leica ER 2.5-10x42. It is a nice modern take on a classic old cartridge. I really like the H&H but having seen the bill to buy 5 boxes of Nosler brass - ($476 for 125) made me think that I am not THAT much into it right now. :)
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I must of had a deal on brass, the Noslers I purchased were $84.00 x 2 = $168.00.w:h:
 
sharp shooter said:
I was thinking that already. What would one have to do to make one from a current m70? Nice rifle by the way.
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Very little if you have a magnum bolt model. Remove the spacer from the magazine box and sweet the follower for the full-length one and you're set. You'll have to modify the ejector and square up the rear of the feed rails to allow the cartridges to sit tight to the feed rails. If you look at the rear of the rails you'd see that they are radiused, likely due to the too,ingredients used to cut the opening in the bottom of the action. Then get a barrel screwed into it and you're logging.
 
1899 said:
I really like the H&H but having seen the bill to buy 5 boxes of Nosler brass - ($476 for 125) made me think that I am not THAT much into it right now. :)
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Thank goodness for Supercub giving up his whole stash of new brass a few years back. That plus what I have dug up at gun shows here and there, I have about 500 new Winchester and Remington brass left in the stash.
 
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I must of had a deal on brass, the Noslers I purchased were $84.00 x 2 = $168.00.w:h:
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$84/box of 25 = $420 for 5 boxes, plus tax here in BC = $470.40.

I know it's not the end of the world - but still. So if I want something cool and retro in a .30 Mag I'll be looking for another .308 Norma!
 
crazy_davey said:
Thank goodness for Supercub giving up his whole stash of new brass a few years back. That plus what I have dug up at gun shows here and there, I have about 500 new Winchester and Remington brass left in the stash.
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Well the other thing that I haven't mentioned is that the Nosler brass - from that batch he bought anyways - is very soft. So yes, you are a lucky dog!

Don't get me wrong by my whining - I still think the H&H is great!
 
1899 said:
$84/box of 25 = $420 for 5 boxes, plus tax here in BC = $470.40.

I know it's not the end of the world - but still. So if I want something cool and retro in a .30 Mag I'll be looking for another .308 Norma!
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Geez, paying over $3.00 per case/brass is absolutely insane. This cartridge is sooooooo nice, a 26 inch Douglas Air Gauge, tapered octagon on a Model 70.....that's my next one. I gotta use up that brass.
 
My 300 H&H is a plain old Remington 721 bought about 1971.
Its starting to show its hunting scars and has always been superbly accurate.
As for brass prices I have a lifetime supply of Winchester, Norma and Remington brass for the old girl.
 
So what are you guys loading in yours? I was thinking of something in the 200gr category of bullets would be enough muscle out to far distances (not that i take or get long shots). Maybe an accubond or something similar (they shoot so nice out of my 06 and 375h&h).

Crazy,
Nice rig. I'd like to see more pics of that thing. I think I may have a crush on your rifle…thats ok right?
 
I had a Remington Classic in 300 H&H...shot 36 animals with it. Mostly with 165 gr Nosler Ball Tips, a few with 180 gr Hornady SP and Nosler Partitions and 2 deer with 200gr Sierra BTSP (my biggest Mulie 168 3/8" symmetrical 4x4) . Very nice cartridge, same case volume as the new/remake of the 300 H&H...the 300WSM. It does not kick back as hard (more of a push like its father the 375H&H another stellar cartridge) as the Win or WBY but will get 3000fps with a 180.
I shot out the barrel...being re barreled now to 300 WBY...I wanted something different.
You can't go wrong with it!!!

They keep trying to re invent the wheel...H&H does it all.
 
I've have a 1959 browning safari grade on a FN mauser action in 300H&H and she is just a beauty to shoot. She feeds and cycles like a dream and groups very well with factory hornady rounds. I lucked out this past summer picking up 500+ mixed brass of winchester, remington and norma. I should be set for a while.
 
leojlafrog said:
I've have a 1959 browning safari grade on a FN mauser action in 300H&H and she is just a beauty to shoot. She feeds and cycles like a dream and groups very well with factory hornady rounds. I lucked out this past summer picking up 500+ mixed brass of winchester, remington and norma. I should be set for a while.
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Ya, sounds like a wet dream of a rifle. Thats exactly what I want. I finally broke down and picked up another 06 from a good nut on here. Should be in next week. My very first FN safari. Hopefully my pet load for my other 06 (FN M70)will work in it. Funny, seems like I have a thing for FN guns.
 
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