anyone using there 375 lever this deer season

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Will anyone be using the 375 Win for deer season this year?
If someone has one sittin the the gun safe, you should give it a run just for me LOL:D:dancingbanana:


Im going to get my old 94 up an running for summer Fallow deer sitting over water/game trails.

I love this calibre because its my first Lever 94 although i havnt taken a deer with it.
please post up if you have or will try take a deer with it this year!

cheers
WL
 
What loads an stuff are you using? i only at the moment use the 200gr super x offering, i just got a new box of ammo so that will see me well an truely through summer.

you guys wouldnt have any hunting photos with the 375BB in there would ya?
how have you found the cartridge for deer Suka, i know you say its excellent, but are you have complete pass throughs an at what distance.
thanks a bunch
 
Her hunting load is 32.2gr of IMR 4198 with a 220gr Hornady. She shot a large doe from maybe 60-70yds, the bullet landing behind the shoulder in the rear of the scapula, passing through both sides with no appreciable visible bullet expansion (going by meat damage). If you had picked the deer up and thrown it down it would not have gotten there quicker, or lain more still.

She has a buck tag coming up in Nov.
 
I'm another one with a 94BB .375 Win. I finally built a bunch of ladder loads with several different powders & 220gr Hornady's but haven't tested them at the range yet. Not sure how they work on deer, but I knew a fellow back in the early 80's that used his .375Win 94BB for moose with no problems. He liked the 250gr factory ammo in those days.
 
Moose is a big reason I got her this calibre. We were actually hunting moose when she shot that doe.
Haven't tried a 250gr, thought about trying a 300gr, but sustpect that much weight may be a little too much for this caliber.
Anyone ever try the 300gr leads?
 
RE#7 is the powder for the .375 Winchester..............Harold.............38gr /Hornady 220gr/Win cases MAX LOAD 2200fps
 
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i kind of had an oppertunity to put 2 boars on the ground today, but i opted not too because my hunting buddy has put so much time in on hes dogs an they are a little gun shy.. none the less i coulda shoulda woulda if i was on my own.

Over on leverguns i hear alot of guys using cast lead, i figure thats a much better option for deer sized animals?

I think you guys should tote your .37BBs out this deer season an we'll see what we can work out with this calibre.. i know im super keen to deck a deer with it!
 
I hunted my 38-55 last year....shot 2 - Whitetails with it. a 145 buck and a doe. Both shots were inside of 100 yards, and both deer dropped with 30 feet of where they were shot. I used the Barnes 255 grain SP chased by a healthy dose of H322 [1750 fps] Did not recover either bullet. I shoot a 285 grain cast out of it also. Not unusual to get groups under 2" at 100 yards with it. Eagleye
 
Whelanlad, I had my first range session with my .375Win last Friday. I had 2 handloads built; 225gr Hornady FN and 235gr Woodleigh spitzers.
The Hornadys were ~1900fps over the Chrony and the Woodleighs were only 1700fps, so I've got to add a grain or so of powder to both loads.

The 235gr Woodleighs are intended to be fired in the .375H&H. The design calls for an impact velocity between 1900-2800fps. I figure I can get them to ~2100fps. Even at the 1700fps MV, I got pretty decent expansion, when I fired the bullet into the clay bank.

Because they're spitzers, theoretically they cannot be loaded in the tube magazine of the Winchester, so I will load one in the barrel and one in the magazine. But when you look at the Hornady vs the Woodleigh, there's almost no difference in the area of the tip.

I'm planning on ending the life of a big black bear with one of those Woodleighs, maybe next spring. :)
 
Nice, yeah im semi waitin on some 200-250 RN bullets from a bullet maker here in aus specially for the slower velocities, i dont know if this will help you but i've seen some guys cut the tips off the spitzers square so as to be laoded in the lever..?

Eagleeye
Im hopin you got some photos to put up :)
 
WhelanLad said:
Nice, yeah im semi waitin on some 200-250 RN bullets from a bullet maker here in aus specially for the slower velocities, i dont know if this will help you but i've seen some guys cut the tips off the spitzers square so as to be laoded in the lever..?

Eagleeye
Im hopin you got some photos to put up :)
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I've contemplated doing that. I don't think it would too hard to build a jig that held the bullet firmly, then file the tip off just enough to widen the meplate to allow loading into the magazine.
But before I do anything like that, I've got to work the load up, test expansion at various velocities etc... Depending on how that goes I may have no need to 'doctor' the bullet tips.
 
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