I’ve been shooting a 375 Whelen Imp for about forty years now. Not bad recoil at all and close to H&H ballistics if you stay under about 270 grains. My favorite elk rifle, but has also dropped two bison in their tracks with one shot each. And you can pretty much eat right up to the bullet hole. I use 260gr. Ballistic tips with great results.
Canyon Creek .375 Rifles Coming Soon
- Thread starter Prophet River
- Start date
- Location
- Lloydminster, Alberta
Agreed!! Nice cal.
Of the three we had in .375 cal, only the .375 H&H is still here:
https://store.prophetriver.com/canyon-creek-customs/
Ardent
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
I built my own version of the .375 Whelen Imp (shortened the neck), and put it in a 98. It’s what we need 95% of the time from a .375, and fits 5 in the mag, rifle can be light enough for a stalking rifle.
Sorry for the sidetrack. The .358 there is a stunner.
I built my 375 Whelen Improved about 40 years ago using a McGowan 26 inch barrel on a 1908 Brazilian action. Put a few thousand rounds through it and it still gets the business done for me every year. Perfect moose and elk rifle using 260gr. Ballistic tips.I built my own version of the .375 Whelen Imp (shortened the neck), and put it in a 98. It’s what we need 95% of the time from a .375, and fits 5 in the mag, rifle can be light enough for a stalking rifle.
Sorry for the sidetrack. The .358 there is a stunner.
Ardent
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
Oddly enough I settled on the 260 ballistic tip too for my main load as well, which I still haven’t bested with the monos I am moving to lately. Makes for a .375 that doesn’t know it’s not a .338 Mag.
Again, sorry Clay for the sidetrack, not often you see such a great, little known chambering featured.
Again, sorry Clay for the sidetrack, not often you see such a great, little known chambering featured.
- Location
- Lloydminster, Alberta
Not at all. Great to see others with a .375 Wh AI!!!
Do you prefer Ballistic tips over partitions?
In this caliber, yes. I find that partitions wreck too much meat and are expensive. I imagine Ballistic tips would too in a H&H, but in a Whelen that is about 200fps slower the Ballistic tips are perfect and mushroom exactly like they show on the package. Almost all go through an elk, the only one I’ve ever recovered was about a 250 yard shot and mushroomed so perfectly they could use it in their advertising. I don’t shoot further than about 300 yards. Killed about 5 big elk with this bullet and I wouldn’t switch to anything else and I tried pretty much everything from 235 grains to 300 grains.
I have had great results with the Hornady 270gr interlocks on moose and black bears with the 375hh. Might give the ballistic tip a try in the 378 weatherby.
270gr. Hornady’s Boat tails were my previous favourite. Unless you’re shooting pretty long I don’t know how well the 260 Ballistic tips would stay together from a 378. They may be fine but I would test them, first before I shot something I wanted to eat. I drive them at right around 2500fps. at the muzzle and they work perfectly for me.
