My old skin is nearly 69 yrs. and tough as leather but I still put the flame suit on, here goes :
As some of you may remember, a few years ago I jumped on the 375 Ruger bandwagon like many others and unlike nearly all others I had issues with both rifles an African and a very early Alaskan not to mention problems with the Hornady brass I had bought from different sources.
After a great deal of frustration with both rifles and brass I parted out everything.
When I aired my problems on here a lot of name -calling ensued and for the first time I resorted to using our Ignore option ( Thank goodness there is one ) not because of a title hung on the Ruger cartridge.
Since that time I have had a great deal of correspondence with Hornady concerning the brass issue and because of several samples of the brass I used it was determined that the cases in question were in fact softer than should be the norm.
Thanks to our numerous discussions I was fully reimbursed in brass and money.... a sincere Thanks to Hornady.
Now I have a bunch of 375 Ruger brass and no rifle... what to do ?
I really like the Ruger products and can easily fill a large safe with my current Ruger rifles and handguns, however I do not like the new 375 Ruger options as compared to the original.
And then one evening I saw a Howa 1500 carbine in what else but 375 Ruger and already having a tackdriver Vanguard S2 I thought.. why not ?
A phone call to Clay @ Prophet River, a few short weeks later and I now have a really sharp little stainless 20" carbine in 375 Ruger.
Leupold took care of the mounts and it wears a Swarovski 1.5-6X42 glass ( worth more than the rifle ! ).
Handloads feed and chamber totally smooth and tomorrow is break-in day for it, so after its had a few rounds through it we will see what it likes.
Oh, and for the purists its a push-feed and although drilled and tapped for, it has no irons.
I have dozens of CRF rifles as well as a bunch of push-feeds but in the final analysis I would rather have a push-feed rifle that cycles than a controlled- feed that doesn't. As for the lack of irons, I will never be close enough to anything that bites back to worry, but that's just me.
Looking forward to your thoughts... or am I ??
As some of you may remember, a few years ago I jumped on the 375 Ruger bandwagon like many others and unlike nearly all others I had issues with both rifles an African and a very early Alaskan not to mention problems with the Hornady brass I had bought from different sources.
After a great deal of frustration with both rifles and brass I parted out everything.
When I aired my problems on here a lot of name -calling ensued and for the first time I resorted to using our Ignore option ( Thank goodness there is one ) not because of a title hung on the Ruger cartridge.
Since that time I have had a great deal of correspondence with Hornady concerning the brass issue and because of several samples of the brass I used it was determined that the cases in question were in fact softer than should be the norm.
Thanks to our numerous discussions I was fully reimbursed in brass and money.... a sincere Thanks to Hornady.
Now I have a bunch of 375 Ruger brass and no rifle... what to do ?
I really like the Ruger products and can easily fill a large safe with my current Ruger rifles and handguns, however I do not like the new 375 Ruger options as compared to the original.
And then one evening I saw a Howa 1500 carbine in what else but 375 Ruger and already having a tackdriver Vanguard S2 I thought.. why not ?
A phone call to Clay @ Prophet River, a few short weeks later and I now have a really sharp little stainless 20" carbine in 375 Ruger.
Leupold took care of the mounts and it wears a Swarovski 1.5-6X42 glass ( worth more than the rifle ! ).
Handloads feed and chamber totally smooth and tomorrow is break-in day for it, so after its had a few rounds through it we will see what it likes.
Oh, and for the purists its a push-feed and although drilled and tapped for, it has no irons.
I have dozens of CRF rifles as well as a bunch of push-feeds but in the final analysis I would rather have a push-feed rifle that cycles than a controlled- feed that doesn't. As for the lack of irons, I will never be close enough to anything that bites back to worry, but that's just me.
Looking forward to your thoughts... or am I ??
Howa 1500 should be up to snuff too ! gatehouse will be Proud of ya ! 
LOL Cheers my Friend - RJ
