This is my latest after a liitle work done to it. No doubt the purists will be horrified!! I love it but have yet to fire it although a few rounds wrer put through it to check headspacing etc.

The stock is Macmillans the scope - Leupold 1.75-6x33 and the metal is enamel baked finish in grey similar to Rugers Varmints rifles.

MLG,

That's one top looking rifle. I've never been a fan of synthetic stocked rifles, but yours looks AWESOME! Congratulations.

Beautiful.
Ray will say it's ugly.
Very cool, it is, no matter what Yoda of Idaho says about it.

A baked on black finish and a walnut brown McMillan can fool the Sith's that are wont to criticize such a fine Jedi sabre.

Thanks guys for the favourable comments.

I just know Ray will love it

what price range for rifle?

Bolt Action

The work was done by a local gunsmith here in Australia. Total cost worked out to about $2500 USD.

MLG,

did Bob do the work ??

Also whom supplies McMillan stocks in Australia ??

By the way it looks great !!

PC

Rob Blomfield of Sunshine Coast Gunsmithing did it. He does a good job and I have seen a lot of his work. Glad you like it. Just hope it shoots well.

The stock I got direct from Mcmillans - their service is excellent and I am very impressed with the fit and finish and so is Rob.

MLG,

Meaning no offense . . . but if you just held that rifle up within sight of any self-respecting cape buffalo with an ounce of good taste, good sense and cape buffalo--bull--hood left in his bovine blood, he would either laugh a bovine laugh or shite himself dead from shock and embarrassment.

Meaning no offense whatsoever, but that tiger-striped, white-assed thing should be re-blued, re-stocked and re-done until it looks like a rifle ought to look--which, given the starting point, will take a couple of revolutions around the Sun.

Meaning not the slightest of offense, but hell, man, I wouldn't shoot a hermaphroditic cape buffalo with that thing. (That's a joke, which I hope, but don't expect, that all of our differently-oriented friends will appreciate.)

In an effort to redeem myself I must add that, still, notwithstanding its gray, soulless plasticicity, I do like its conformation, if only there were some small, slight bit of rust and a dead tree involved . . . .

mrlexma

Thanks for you honest opinion!! Actually you will be surprised - in real life it blends in a little better than what one would think when looking in the picture.

By the way, for buff I have a 416 Rem Mag in blued/wood configuration done out in similar fashion on a model 70.

I just wanted a 375 that was a little different from the run of the mill stuff - gues I got that!!

MLG,

You're a good sport and I'm glad that you have reserved a nice Model 70 in blue and walnut for the worthy buff.

All kidding aside, if it puts the gilding metal, copper, brass and/or lead slug right through where the vital plumbing pumps out Mr. Buff's life, I really couldn't care less . . . especially if whatever's left of my time on earth is hanging in the balance . . .

mlg, nice lookin rifle and on helluva caliber. i do have a question. where did you get the barrel band and how to they keep from slipping. i had one on a 416 that would slide all over the place. i would like to get one for my 375. thanks

Great looking rifle! Congrats!

Grizzinator

The barrell band is easily obtainable from some where like Brownells. I got a Gunsmith to do the metalwork and I believe the barrell band is soldered on. If its done properly, it should be solid as a rock.

Rusty

Thanks - glad you like it.

Picture is down! Even though I can't see it...Great looking rifle MLG!

Good looking rifle! Utilitarian rifles have a beauty of their own... Enjoy it.

mlg,

did you change barrels etc.

what did you actually have done after buying the stainless m70 .375 ??..................that is what you started with isn't it ??

I really like that rig as a wet weather rig and good for hunting pigs in the cape of gulf.

PC

Its the original barrel - just had the sights and barrell band fitted, length reduced to 22.5", Talley Qick release mounts/rings, action slicked up and the bolt properly jewelled as the factory job was only half done. Also its been bedded & floated.

I am really pleased with it - it feels good to hold with that stock an,d comes up really well. The stock is set up for the open sights.

MLG,

that is the sort of wet weather Rig I would like to make up.

In your opinion do winchester stainless actions have issues with galling at all ??

PC - despite having many more traditional and beautiful DGRs my Winnie stainless with barrel cut back to 22", new sights etc has been to africa twice and will probably go again in Oct for eles even if it's as a back-up. The action in my hands is easiest to cycle in anger and lesss likely to bind than any of my other rifles. Charlie.

Charlie,

do they have a perpensity to gall, as Rugers in the stainless variety are quite prone to it, just wondering if winchester have got a way to reduce it.

PC, I'm no metallurgist or gunsmith, but subjectively I can't tell the difference in action smoothness between this stainless and my other blued steel, despite conventional wisdom suggesting that stainless is never as smooth.
Charlie

Thanks Charlie,

I was just wondering wether the winchester stainless steel is better than that used in the Ruger stainless guns.

I like your rifle. You put a lot of thought, work, and investment into it -- the right kind of modifications -- and 'Blessed Tradition' be dipped. Fiberglass stocks are better than wood in every way that counts, and buffalo simply don't care about anything but not getting shot.

Use it in good health!

AD

Nice looking Rifle. Real Sharp! Myself I like wood and a blued barrel.