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Headed back to S. Africa, Limpopo region this July with my son for plains game. While I know I don't need to, I am set on taking my Ruger #1 in 375 H&H as my primary. Rifle shoots all four just fine,1.2 - 1.0 inch groups and will not be hunting anything larger than Kudu or Gemsbuck. Any reason not to take the best grouping bullet. Mike | ||
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300gr Sierra are soft as butter,i got a box cheap to use on ferals around the farm. "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." Sir Winston Churchill | |||
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Personally, I love the Accubonds as does my rifle. Unless your shooting over 200 yards, I think any of the one's you mentioned will do fine on large PG. I use a 160 grain Accubond for Kudu, Gemsbok, Wildebeast etc. No problems. Shot placement; the .375 will do the rest. Good hunting to you and your Son. DK Gray Ghost Hunting Safaris http://grayghostsafaris.com Phone: 615-860-4333 Email: hunts@grayghostsafaris.com NRA Benefactor DSC Professional Member SCI Member RMEF Life Member NWTF Guardian Life Sponsor NAHC Life Member Rowland Ward - SCI Scorer Took the wife the Eastern Cape for her first hunt: http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6881000262 Hunting in the Stormberg, Winterberg and Hankey Mountains of the Eastern Cape 2018 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/4801073142 Hunting the Eastern Cape, RSA May 22nd - June 15th 2007 http://forums.accuratereloadin...=810104007#810104007 16 Days in Zimbabwe: Leopard, plains game, fowl and more: http://forums.accuratereloadin...=212108409#212108409 Natal: Rhino, Croc, Nyala, Bushbuck and more http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6341092311 Recent hunt in the Eastern Cape, August 2010: Pics added http://forums.accuratereloadin...261039941#9261039941 10 days in the Stormberg Mountains http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/7781081322 Back in the Stormberg Mountains with friends: May-June 2017 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6001078232 "Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading" - Thomas Jefferson Every morning the Zebra wakes up knowing it must outrun the fastest Lion if it wants to stay alive. Every morning the Lion wakes up knowing it must outrun the slowest Zebra or it will starve. It makes no difference if you are a Zebra or a Lion; when the Sun comes up in Africa, you must wake up running...... "If you're being chased by a Lion, you don't have to be faster than the Lion, you just have to be faster than the person next to you." | |||
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Mike D. A. Most of the game that dropped to my 375 H&H (90% of it) was plain old 270gr hornady interlock. They are not the best bullets when it comes to speed though I usually keep the speed to an avg. of 2500 fps with great results, and super accuracy. Since you are hunting in limpopo you will not need anything faster anyway as the ranges will hardly ever go beyond 250 yards. Frederik Cocquyt I always try to use enough gun but then sometimes a brainshot works just as good. | |||
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The Hornady 300 gr RN is very soft on Aussie thin skinned stuff..................on African stuff it would be even worse I suspect. | |||
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I had great luck using the 260 accubond on kudu, mountain zebra, gemsbok in Namibia. Good weight retention and mushrooms on the bullets I recovered, all others were pass throughs with excellent controlled expansion. Bob | |||
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The Hornady 300 RN gave very good performance on the PG animals I took in SA. Ten PG animals from springbok up to kudu and wildebeest. Very fun on rocks at the river here, too!  FIre Support Team | |||
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The Hornady 300gr RN Interbond has had some good press. For the game you list what about the 270 North Forks? | |||
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Mike, I'll be hunting in the Limpopo region this coming July AND taking my Ruger #1 .375 H&H!! I've shoot alot of the 270gr Hornady Interlocks simply because they are cost effective for practice - and they shoot great 1" groups. Funny you should mention it - I've been debating using the for PG myself... They are great on Elk.... "At least once every human being should have to run for his life - to teach him that milk does not come from the supermarket, that safety does not come from policemen, and that news is not something that happens to other people." - Robert Heinlein | |||
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Scott, Small world. We will be there July 11-July 24, hunting with Shi-awela Safaris. I to have been using the Hornady 270 gr for practice, and they shoot better than the Accubonds. The Sierra 300gr are wickedly accurate printing clover leafs at 2475 fps but I had heard they are very soft, although we are not hunting anything larger than a bull elk. Have a great hunt. Mike | |||
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Will be returning to Namibia in April, and will use the 260 AccuBond on my leopard, waterbuck, eland, and kudu (if I can better the 56" I got last time). All the above shoot good in my Rem 700, but the Nosler is the best grouping, by far. | |||
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