Anyone using one? Is brass a hard to find item?

welcome..
I build a 376 on a mexican mauser.. brass is has hard to find as calling midwayusa...

there's a couple of us on here in that ultra-cool club

jeffe

Hornady does a brass run every winter.
I have a Steyr SBS in 376 Steyr. Very accurate. It favors 270 grain Failsafes and BL-C2 powder.
If you get the Scout in 376 you would be well advised to put the scope on in the traditional location rather than forward. Better balance and better FOV. A Leupold 1.5-5 x 20 works great in that application.

lawndart

grm,

There are several users posting here, although my rifle is the .376 ProHunter.

Brass is not a problem. I ordered 300 cases and parked them on the shelf.

CDNN Sports has some Hornady 225 gr ammo on sale.

cdnnsports.com


I am looking for the ideal action to build another .376 Steyr on. Right now I am looking for an intermediate length commercial Mauser (anybody see any Western Field Mausers just laying around?). They were imported for Monkey Wards.

jim

I would like to make a few comments about the 376 Steyr, and scout rifles in general.First I am right handed and left eye dominate... the scout scope principle does not work for me....
but I have a scout scope on a M1 Garand [Match Grade Rifle] and even closing my left eye it is an advantage over the iron sights in many situations. The scout scope does work as designed for people who are eye dominate on their shooting side. Like anything new, you must experience it a while to really appreciate and understand it.
As to the Scout/Super Scout rifle principle, ie. a short lite rifle in 308 or Super Scout [350 Rem Mag/376 Steyr etc] I can highly recommend it. I have used Remington Model 7's in 308 and 350 Rem Mag, a SAKO Handy Rifle in 375 H&H and the Blaser R 93 Tracker [19 3/4"/50mm for your Euro types] in 308 and 375 H&H. I have handled a Steyr Scout Rifle as well as shot a couple of Scout Rifles made at Gunsite.
I have shot the 308's on paper to 600 yards and the 375's on paper at 200 and 300 yards and they give up NOTHING in accuracy to longer barreled rifles. I have killed game to 412 yards with the Blaser Trapper in 308.
They make excellent hunting rifles.
I prefer conventional scopes on my Scout/Super Scout Rifles because of my eye dominance situation, but I really like the concept.....


Now if I could just get a Super Duper Scout Rifle, ie a 450/400 3 1/4" Double with 20" bbls....

The Styer Scouts are nice but light for some of us. FWIW, a friend installed two mercury recoil reducers in the spare magazine that inserts in the stock Fthey fit into it just like rounds) and made his radically more comfortable to shoot.
HunterJim, I guess aqny intermediate would work; Jeffe used a Mexican Mauser. I'm using a Montanna 1999 short action which is actually an intermediate, not short. It perfectly matches the round in length and in mass. It will build a rifle around 8.5 lbs with a 22" #4 contour barrel and average walnut stock.

I've spent a fair amount of time behind both the the .308 and the .376 Styer Scout's.

Once you learn how they work they are serious fast handeling guns. As far as moving the scope well that's your perogitive but I think it would be a mistake on a scout platform.

I took a .308 scout to a springbok cull a couple of years ago. I killed 16 springbok at ranges from 358 yards down to about 20. I also killed one blessbok at 180 yards on a dead run. these little bugger are UGLY but they are also DEADLY in the hands of someone who knows how to use them.

As far as recoil in the .376 scout. If you've done any large bore shooting what so ever you won't find the scout to be hard to shoot at all. I find it pleasant, if anything a bit snappy but not uncomfortable or uncontrollble in any way shape or form.

Hey Ultra Cool Guys!!!

Just finished working up a 300 grn Partition load for my Prohunter 20" barrel

Book max load of Varget gets 2380 fps avg for 15 shots thru an Oehler 35

By the way, Leup QR rings and bases wont work on the Steyr. Use Talleys if you want quick detachables. Or use Leup Dual Dovetails for a fixed mount.

Regards

Elmo

Elmo....would you post that load?

I'm having problems getting anywhere NEAR a maximum load with 300 grainers, can't compress the powder that much(using drop tubes and everything else), to seat a 300 to magazine length.....

Getting to the point where I think I've got some misprints or something...

benchmark is THE powder for 376

jeffe

Tigger,

I am shopping for a commercial Mauser intermediate length action. I bid on one on an online auction this week, but no joy. They were imported to here from Germany for folks such as Monkey Wards (Western Field name). The actions are C-ring and don't have the left rail thumb cut.

jim

I was fooling around on Huntington's site (www.huntingtons.com) and noticed they have Hornady 376 Steyr brass on sale for $12.50 per 50 cases.

I am not a fan of the 375 Styer as it operates at very high pressure to obtain balistics not equal to the 375 H&H...nor am I a Blaser fan for that matter, its looks like something Buck Rodgers would shoot or Dr. Zuess...

Ray,
The saamie for the 375 HH is 58500, the saami for the steyr is 63000.

Both of which are lower than the 416 rem and 458 lott.

At 63K in the steyr, and 58500 in the HH, with the same bullet and the same length barrel, they are the same cartridge...

Oh, except that the 376 falls into a mauser action, burns less powder, more fit into the same action, no real feeding mods, and it kicks less...

In fact it is at the same pressure as the 270

jeffe

quote:

Originally posted by Atkinson 30 March 2005:


"I am not a fan of the 375 Styer as it operates at very high pressure to obtain balistics not equal to the 375 H&H..."


Re: 376 Steyr Originally posted by Atkinson posted 18 August 2003 11:08


"I think the caliber is a good one, the pro hunter is not my kind of rifle..."


Re: 376 Steyr Originally posted by Atkinson posted 25 December 2003 10:53


"that's a very interresting caliber and a fine choice, if I did't already have a 375 H&H I would surly build me a 375 Styer on a Mauser action such as yours...that would make a really nice light packing rifle.

I have been studing the loading manuals on that caliber here lately and looks like Varget is the powder to go with. a 300 gr. bullet at 2400 is about the perfect Buffalo/Lion load and with a solid should wreck a Timbo, IMO...."


Re: 376 Steyr Originally posted by Atkinson posted 05 October 2004 11:21


"I have always thought it a very interresting well thought out caliber and I would like to have one someday, but I have a 9.3x62 and a 375 H&H that I won't part with I don't think and it would be a repeat of them from a practical standpoint..but someday it will come about in a weak moment, simply because I have not shot anything with one and I cannot handle that, I love that part of hunting, that is to use every caliber imaginable for hunting, the experimenting is half the fun, and always an education...."

So Ray, which is it????? One week you like it......the next week you don't?????

Alzheimer's????

Senility???

Maybe you are just full of it?????

Fireball

62.6 grns is Hodgdon book max (Fed 215m Primer) and it is a compressed load. I don't do anything special, just dump that powder in and seat the bullet.

Jeffe has been getting great results with Benchmark, so I would try that also. In fact when I can see to the bottom of that huge pile of Varget I have, I just may try it myself


Elmo

GonHuntin, I can't speak for Ray but when I do that its usually the booze and a bad day at the job...or was it a bad day and then the booze? Shit if I can remember.

I highly recommend checking out the Swift bullets new manual on the 375 Styer as a comparison to a 375 H&H....I bet they have some good testing equipment too....

Ray

What did the Swift folks have to say? I don't use their bullets and probably won't spend the dough for the manual, but I would like to hear their results.

I like the .376 because it's a compact powerful sensible round that you can carry around in an 8 lb rifle. 92% of H&H power seems like it ought to work OK to me. I just think of it as a 9.3x62 with a better bullet selection.

Elmo

Elmo,

I tried to convince S-M marketing to pitch the .376 Steyr as the modern update to the 9.3X62, but S-M marketing is an oxymoron.

I don't think that was Ray posting, it was the Ray Boggart.

jim