. . . can anyone give me a suggestion regarding where to get a hold of some .375 Ruger ammunition. I suspect that is like finding a needle in a haystack at this point.

I believe RIP has about ten-thousand rounds stashed at his compound in Kentucky; cleverly hidden in boxes marked "toothpaste" to fool the locals.

Rich
DRSS

A slight exaggeration.
www.whittakerguns.com gets it 100 boxes at a time.

Thanks. Turns out that you can order it directly from Hornady. Should have two boxes on Friday.

What is a box of .375 Ruger retailing for?

okay Mike, fess up! What are you going to do with that ammunition?

Rich
DRSS

About $60/box from Hornady, plus shipping.

Why run it through a M77 Hawkeye African, what else?

That 470 has kicked him silly and he needs to shoot a BB gun for a while to get rid of the flinch

$47.50/box and $49.95/box, or $47.95 and $49.50, whatever less than fifty bucks per box of 20, for the 270 and 300 grain soft points at www.whittakerguns.com

That reminds of the origins of the term "buck" as refers to the US Dollar.

Deer skins were used as common currency, and many other things.

In the 1700's from Virginia to Kentucky and beyond, the Long Hunters would go on hunting forays for months (occasionally years), and collected the deer skins to use as currency when they got back home.

A buck deer's skin was worth one dollar, a buck, back then when the inflation rate was about zero, back when a dollar was a lot of money.

What's in your wallet?

Stay tuned guys. He'll be wanting to sell it in about 6-9 months.

Call Accuracy Arms in Royse City, Tex. Kim will sell it for under $50 for either size bullets. 972-771-8977.
Butch

Mike,
PM me if you're interested in some a bit closer to home. My local gun shop here in Victoria has it in inventory. Ammo but no guns yet!

Kim at Accuracy Arms has a rifle in stock.
Butch

quote:

Originally posted by Idaho Sharpshooter:
I believe RIP has about ten-thousand rounds stashed at his compound in Kentucky; cleverly hidden in boxes marked "toothpaste" to fool the locals.

Rich
DRSS

Toothpaste was invented in Kentucky.

If it was invented anyplace else it would be called "Teethpaste"

That's Cold...Fjold!!

Ahhhh, my first bit of prose for 2007. Look out world, I'm getting on a roll!

Rich
DRSS

Put on your best Kentucky accent when you say this.
Momma??? what's a toothbrush?

Q: What do you have if you get 32 Kentuckians in the same room?

A: A full set of teeth.

Actually heard that one about Yupik natives while I was in Alaska. Just thought I would switch it to keep to the current theme.

Gotta admit there are a lot of Kentuckians with bad teeth, and a lot of folks who don't like to acknowledge Kentucky origins.

Johnny Depp does not like to publicize his Kentucky roots. My wife used to play with him and his sister when they were babies, nextdoor neighbors.

Chuck Woolery: It get's even stranger than "The Love Connection."

Timan:

What is the length of the box on your Magnum Mauser action for the .395 Tatanka?

Also,
There is another AR member PM-ing me to ask if I will mail to you some brass for the .375 Ruger, for you to use as dummies for his rifle.
I will not mail an unsolicited package on the request of a third party of whom I have no knowledge except that he says he is a customer of yours. Do you need .375 Ruger dummies from me, as he says?

IRP!

I have two boxes which I bought "because I could". (Being an idiot is a big problem for me). Anyway, with a new house under construction, a daughter's wedding in two months, my oldest getting ready to leave for grad school at Vanderbuilt, and retirement for me and the wife both looming, I realized this project may be a while getting off the ground. If someone needs some, I will sell it for $100 delivered in the lower 48. If no one wants it, I will add it to the "reserve" ammunition shelf.

By the way, we have a name for Kentucky jokes in Kentucky. We call them "West Virginia jokes". Conversion is simple. Unfortunately, to my knowledge, they have no outlet and are stuck with them.

Art S.,
The West Virginia-Kentucky border does seem to be the River Styx of Hillbilly Heroin Hell.
Druggies like to doctor shop back and forth across the border.

Naow fer da hite of stoopidity, here am a Koloeradian whut's gettin a wildcat .395 bilt up on a kase dat ain't efen avaleable, exsept if'n ya shuut up hard ta fine kartriges fer new guns.
I need some for future .395 Ruger!

prof242,
I've already got about $2500 into this for startup on the barrels and the reamers.

Finding .375 Ruger ammo is easy. Buy some and pull the bullets. Neck up to .395, measure the neck O.D. and talk to Dave Manson about the reamer.

Made Men don't cry.

Whew, you went into it whole hog. I guess, though, with three cartridges, it would cost that much.
I'm figuring the $250 for barrel, gunsmithing of about another $250, about $175 for reamer, and dies the same. Or about $850 plus the stock and action. Sound about right? Already had figured on pulling the .375 Ruger rounds down. The bullets I'll shoot up in my .375 H&H.

Non FFL prices for barrels: $280 for a stainless barrel and $180 for a 4140 barrel from McGowen.
You got it pegged otherwise. Harry didn't give you an FFL discount did he?
This is a happenin' thang. You know as much about it as I do now.

History being made, by prof242: the world's first .395 Ruger.