I'm sure this is old news to most on this board, but I can load 260-grain Nosler Partitions and zero them at 200, and without changing the scope zero, shoot 300-grain A-Frames and Sledgehammer solids that are dead on at 100.

Talk about your one-gun safari rifle!

Where are they striking at 100? In my 375, all 300gr softs I've tried shoot to the same POI as well as the old-fashioned Hornady solids. jorge

270 grn Rhino is KING try them.
Thanks for the information on the Nosler.

Cheers,

André

.......That is one of the Great things about the 375 .,., Look at the success Saeed has with his , even tho it is a wild cat it is still a 375 and as I under stand it he loads it to around H&H velocities ...If you try the Federal 300 gr Trophy Bonded Bear Claw High Energy ammo You may find it shoots to the same P.o.i. as your 260 gr load .. and it goes roaring out the barrel at a full 2700 fps....I,ts pretty amazeing stuff in my opinion .........Congratulations

The ability of a .375H&H to shoot all kinds of different loads to the same POI has been known for 50 years and gun lore for longer than that. Long live the .375 H&H.-rob

I'm throwing my 260-grain Partitions down range at 2700, and my 300 grainers at a shade under 2500. Shooting at a two inch stick-on dot at 200, I can put three out of five of the 260 Partitions in the black, and shooting at a one-inch stick-on dot at a hundred, most of my shots will touch it.

This means I can use my rifle as a long range plains game gun in the morning, and a short range DG rifle in the afternoon, without changing anything but the ammo.

.Sounds good !!!!!!!!Real good.,.,

Exactly why a .375 H&H can do what few other calibers can i.e shoot wildly different loads to the same POI has been debated since I was a PUP. Its absolutely true though! Few .375 H&H guns will not shoot 1 MOA also. Its an inherently accurate cartridge and will do for any animal that currently walks this earth. It just doesn't have the instantaneous effect of a .50 or larger caliber. Neveretheless long live the .375 H&H. One planet, one gun!-Rob

Has nothing to do with caliber! end of story.

What is does have to do with is the individual gun..Some guns will do that but most will not. over the years all my keeper guns will do that.

My English .375 will shoot about any bullet from 250 gr. Sierras to 300 grs Woodleighs to the exact same POI.

I have a .338 Hogue rifle that shoots the 300 Woodleigh soft and solid dead on at 100, the 250 Nosler 2" high and the 210 Nosler 3" high, all on the same setting, and it has stayed sighted in for going on 11 years now..That is phenominal IMO...I have had the gun for 20 years.

These 2 guns came about from probably swapping, buying and selling more guns than one can imagine that have come an gone from my hands over the last 72 or so years..If you get one then hang on to it for dear life, they are rare indeed...

I even have a 30-30 carbine that shoots an inch or under with factory iron sights everytime and the bore looks like crap..not for sale, its my rockchuck gun and has won a ton of turkeys.

Ray- I've had 6 .375 H&H's that would do that over the years. Way more than any other caliber. I've had my share of guns move through my hands too. Many others have had the same result. How often do you hear that about the .338 win mag for example?-Rob

The .375 H&H, like the .270 Win., is known for its propensity to shoot bullets of different weights into the same, or close to the same, group...... Wonder if it works out for the .375 Ruger as well?

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Originally posted by Atkinson:
Has nothing to do with caliber! end of story.

What is does have to do with is the individual gun..Some guns will do that but most will not. over the years all my keeper guns will do that.

I've been wondering about that. One possible cause that came to my mind is simply how factory barrel profiles are used. For example, if the same outside profile is used for a .270 and a .30-06, the latter is going to have less wall thickness and thus more strain for a given stress. At the breech end, again if the same profile is used for a short cartridge (i.e. .308 based) vs a long cartridge, the latter has less meat and thus larger vibrations.

Hell, I just can't accept that there are "magic" bore sizes. There has to be an explanation based on stresses, strains, shooter dynamics, something.