375 ruger velocity

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:DHas anyone chronographed the 375 ruger?:confused::50cal: The reason i ask is there are so many skeptics out there and many dont believe with the case dimensions of the 375 ruger that it is faster then the 375H&H. They believe gun journalist just write what is best for the new caliber. and blah blah. Really I want to buy one and i am going to. So to fill my curiosity an this subject I should ask belonging to this grear wonderful gun online club.:):)
 
I own a 375 Ruger Alaskan

It chronos right where it should be, with factory and handloaded ammo.

The more I use it, the more i like it. If the 375 H&H was developed today, it would look like a 375 Ruger;)
 
The king of velocity is the .378 Weatherby Magnum and the king of popularity is the .375 H&H. Sadly the .375 Ruger gets left in the dust.
 
The 375 ruger is a kick off of the once known wild cat 375 Epstien which equals and a we bit more than the 375 wby but does not even compare to the 378 wby that thing is a monster and it eats all the 375s for breaky..

The neat thing with the ruger and the epstiens is they are more efficient meaning burn less powder and get more velocity than the H&H..

Lots of wild cats out there and the 375 Rum is no pussy cat either, I know a guy that necked down a rigby from 416 to 375 and that thing caught hell at over the chrony, hell there are 15 different typs of 375 to concider but the 3 big names right now I would have to say the H&H first than the 378 wby than the 375 Rum!
I would think the ruger will catch up over time its just hard to perfect perfection in the 375 class there is just a lot out there and much in between!
 
thanks gatehouse I was going to post this "gatehouse" because ive read lots of your threads on the 375 ruger and i figured you would know. I saw you were selling it for $3500 lol not a bad pricelol. and if i was going to go bigger then 375 ruger or H&H it wouldnt be a weatharby. I'd go bigger in dimension like a 416.
 
notso said:
and if i was going to go bigger then 375 ruger or H&H it wouldnt be a weatharby. I'd go bigger in dimension like a 416.
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ME too...

Why put up with the extra recoil, just to flatten trajectory a bit after 300 yards? If you want more stopping power, better to move up in bore size :p
 
I once put together a 375 Weatherby with a 23" rechambered stainless Model 70 barrel on a 700 action that "why not" had up to 2800 with a 300 grainer....how's the Ruger compare to that?...How long is the Ruger African barrel?...I know the Alaskan is a 20" pistol barrel which is reason enough for me not to own one....I hate pistol barrels on rifles...but the African looks likeable...
 
Gatehouse, what powder are you using to get close to the factory velocities? I thought it was a special proprietary powder that allowed them to get that performance out of a short barrel. I'm very interested in the caliber but need to know I can get the performance with handloads. Thanks.
 
Most of the loading I did was with H4350, and a 260gr Accubond. I'll try some more in the spring.

In the 20" barrel Alaskan, I averaged 2755fps. Hodgdon lists the same load I use (from a 23" African barrel) at 2837 fps, an 82 fps gain, which sounds reasonable.

Hodgdons fastest 300gr load is 2660fps, again using H4350. 59600PSI

Thier fastest load for the 300gr 375 H&H is 2645fp (24" barrel) 49500 CUP

Fastest for 375 Weatherby and 300gr is 2649fps and 52 400 CUP

378 Weatherby runs at 2940 fps
 
Once again Ruger and Hornady found a way to make a "new" cartridge.
It is smart in that it will fit a standard length mag and put out the same amount of gusto as it's Grandfather the H&H but it is nothing new.

Keep in mind had the bullets manufacturers made a product that would hold together better 100 years ago the 375 Ruger would also be running competition to the metric 9,3 Brenneke which other than quite small differences for case dimensions and 9 thou of bullet dia. they both boast very similar bullet weights and the same velocities. It is only because of lack of good bullets for high velocity back in the day that the Brenneke is a rare bird today. IMO, a real shame.

The German folk of RSA needed a round for the farmers to keep their livestock walking. The British had the H&H but it was an expensive gun to buy, not to mention feed. When Otto Bock came up with his 9,3x62 to fit a standard length action it made it affordable for the average farmer to take care of their spread with near the same power as the H&H in a much smaller package.

While the Ruger is a great idea, I wish some of the manufacturers would consider giving some of the old school cartridges another kick at the cat which met their demise early not because they sucked, but because they were too far ahead of their time and the components couldn't take the toll.

Hopefully my whiz bang BIL will be getting a 375 Ruger shortly, same as Gatehouse's and we can see what the "new" rage is all about. Rest assured he will be harrased to no end for buying a Century old idea. LOL He will hate the fact it is not a cutting edge idea.
 
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Rembo said:
I once put together a 375 Weatherby with a 23" rechambered stainless Model 70 barrel on a 700 action that "why not" had up to 2800 with a 300 grainer....how's the Ruger compare to that?...
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Hodgdons fastest 300gr load is 2660fps, again using H4350. 59600PSI (23" barrel) Most 375 Weatherby data runs 300gr bullets at around 2700fps, so the Ruger is nipping the heels of the 375 Weatherby.:)


How long is the Ruger African barrel?...I know the Alaskan is a 20" pistol barrel which is reason enough for me not to own one....I hate pistol barrels on rifles...but the African looks likeable...
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African has a 23" barrel. For me, the slight (60-80fps) velocity loss of the 20" barrel is a small compromise for the "handiness" of the Alaskan- especially in the thick coastal forest around here.:)
 
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