...and BOY was it a BOOMER! [/color]:biggun:
I have it in the new Winchester Classic Stainless with open sights. I took it to the range on Saturday and used PMC ammo - specifically the 300 grain [/color]Barnes X ammo.
I also replaced the cheap stock with a McMillan stock. The trigger is still stock, but I plan on having it brought down to 3.5 pounds with a good trigger job. (All of my other rifles have pulls anywhere from 2 1/4 to 3 lbs. But since the .375 is a big gun that I expect to take to Alaska and/or Africa some day, 3.5 lbs is about as low as I want to go.)
The more immediate use of this rifle (believe it or not) will be for use on hogs - big ones! I just got sick and tired of having hogs run and/or charge after being shot. I figure that, even with a well placed shot - if that dang hog doesn't drop in its tracks with a .375, then I just may have to seriously consider the .458 Win. Mag!
As for shooting, let me tell you right off the bat that I plan on mounting a scope on it. GB convinced me to get a low powered scope for dangerous game - or else risk myself getting killed. Before I get a scope, though, I wanted to see how bad it kicked so that I could estimate the necessary eye relief.
Let me tell you, I would love to have 2 FEET [/color]of eye relief if I could find such a scope. THAT GUN JUST KICKS LIKE A MULE - AND, it does so even with the Pachmayer Decelerator pad.
The open sights on that gun are just pathetic in my opinion. I'm sure that they will be useful for dangerous game when up really close, but, like I said, I will mount a scope to it (with detachable mounts.)
As for groups, considering that I was flinching a bit, and that the open sights are really not that great, and that the target was black (like the sights), I was able to manage 1.5" groups at 50 yards. Not too terribly bad. I'm sure that when I mount a scope to it that the groups will shrink and that I should probably get 1.5" at 100 yards. I don't plan on shooting hogs, or any other game, past 100 yards anyway.
I'd say that the kick was about 2 TIMES the kick from a .30-06. I was thinking about getting a muzzle brake, but I think that I'm going to pass on getting one for this rifle. Still, I wasn't too comfortable shooting a lot of shells in this big gun. I shot it 6 times and thought that was enough (or at least that's what my shoulder was telling me - well, that and "hey Zachary, next time do you think that you can wear something more than just a T-shirt?" :-D )
Have any of you ever shot a .375 H&H?
Zachary
I have it in the new Winchester Classic Stainless with open sights. I took it to the range on Saturday and used PMC ammo - specifically the 300 grain [/color]Barnes X ammo.
I also replaced the cheap stock with a McMillan stock. The trigger is still stock, but I plan on having it brought down to 3.5 pounds with a good trigger job. (All of my other rifles have pulls anywhere from 2 1/4 to 3 lbs. But since the .375 is a big gun that I expect to take to Alaska and/or Africa some day, 3.5 lbs is about as low as I want to go.)
The more immediate use of this rifle (believe it or not) will be for use on hogs - big ones! I just got sick and tired of having hogs run and/or charge after being shot. I figure that, even with a well placed shot - if that dang hog doesn't drop in its tracks with a .375, then I just may have to seriously consider the .458 Win. Mag!
As for shooting, let me tell you right off the bat that I plan on mounting a scope on it. GB convinced me to get a low powered scope for dangerous game - or else risk myself getting killed. Before I get a scope, though, I wanted to see how bad it kicked so that I could estimate the necessary eye relief.
Let me tell you, I would love to have 2 FEET [/color]of eye relief if I could find such a scope. THAT GUN JUST KICKS LIKE A MULE - AND, it does so even with the Pachmayer Decelerator pad.
The open sights on that gun are just pathetic in my opinion. I'm sure that they will be useful for dangerous game when up really close, but, like I said, I will mount a scope to it (with detachable mounts.)
As for groups, considering that I was flinching a bit, and that the open sights are really not that great, and that the target was black (like the sights), I was able to manage 1.5" groups at 50 yards. Not too terribly bad. I'm sure that when I mount a scope to it that the groups will shrink and that I should probably get 1.5" at 100 yards. I don't plan on shooting hogs, or any other game, past 100 yards anyway.
I'd say that the kick was about 2 TIMES the kick from a .30-06. I was thinking about getting a muzzle brake, but I think that I'm going to pass on getting one for this rifle. Still, I wasn't too comfortable shooting a lot of shells in this big gun. I shot it 6 times and thought that was enough (or at least that's what my shoulder was telling me - well, that and "hey Zachary, next time do you think that you can wear something more than just a T-shirt?" :-D )
Have any of you ever shot a .375 H&H?
Zachary