are we enough mature to talk about the 375 ruger?
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You can source 375 Ruger ammunition using a telephone or online ordering. It's not difficult to find.
^this...
... doesn't equate to this^
Arguing that the Ruger made the H&H obsolete is like saying the .308 made the .30/06 obsolete. Obsolete is .256 & .30 Newton, .280 Ross, .30 Rem, and a whole catalog full of Brit cartridges. The .22 Hornet and .250 Savage are obsolescent, but clinging on just due to the sheer volume of rifles built.
The .375 H&H will be with us for as long as there are metallic centerfire cartridges.
It's very simple- The H&H uses an obsolete case design. If it wasn't an obsolete case design we would have seen many similar new cartridges introduced in the last 20 years but we haven't. The H&H still works fine but the Ruger is a superior cartridge.
I have a .375 Ruger in an M77 African and a .358-375 Ruger in a Stainless M77 MKII in a B&C stock. I like the cartridge just fine, about equally compared to a couple .375 H&H rifles. Which one I pull out for a hunt has nothing to do with which cartridge, but is decided based on the platform.
that is another clever choice.
From your link:
Definition of obsolete (Entry 1 of 2)
1a: no longer in use or no longer useful
an obsolete word
of a kind or style no longer current : OLD-FASHIONEDan obsolete technology
There is no doubt that the H&H case design is "of a kind or style no longer current"
So by that definition the 7mm Rem Mag, .300 Win Mag, .300 Weatherby, .338 WM, .458 WM are all obsolete?
it is funny that you re coming to say we do not need a caliber ... i need that kind of caliber here where i live but i wont say to someone wherever he live what he needs or not ...
i ll suggest you to reread the title of this thread over and over before posting ...
Hold on. I’ve used a couple of H&H’s, and a couple of Rugers to hunt with. I really don’t feel the difference between them is worth getting worked up over. Especially in Canada. Neither is really needed by a hunter in this country. So why we get tied in knots about this cartridge is beyond me.
You're really on a roll here, this morning. "Neither is really needed by a hunter in this country". This is the same kind of spew that has a whole list of firearms restricted and prohibited in this country, with many more on the way. These types of attitudes have no place here, or anywhere else. When the few, for whatever reason, figure that they get to decide for the many, from atop a pretend pedestal, things go sideways.
Why can't any individual decide what he wants to hunt with? You made the very same decision yourself, to hunt with a 375. Now you have deemed it unnecessary or not needed for others to do so? Just wow. The hypocrisy really does know no bounds with you?
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The 458 WM is one of the few H&H case based cartridges that actually need a belt for proper head space. So the belt isn't redundant on the 458 WM.
Redundant belted cases like the 7RM, 300 WBY etc are an obsolete case design.
The 375 H&H with it's long tapered case is an extraordinarily obsolete case design.
But this thread is about the 375 Ruger, not various belted cartridges.
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Except I’m buying belted magnum brass from ADG, Peterson, and Lapua. All new production. So not sure this is actually the case.
