I just bought both of these rifles, at a great price. I think I'm going to sell one. Putting every thing aside except quality of the rifle. Which one you keep and why? Dr B
I'd shoot them both and go with the one that feels best. I like my FN safari 458. It handles and shoots great. I never owned a ruger 375 but the ones I picked up seemed clunky and too heavy to me. The 375 may be more versatile but with a lighter, better BC bullet like the 450 grain Swift at 2200 fps, the 458 gives up little practical range to the 375, and it makes a reasonable all around rifle.
Even if I wasnot going to Africa, I would load it down with 350/400gr bullets and us it for deer, pigs, and elk/black bear in the thick.
Amen! It's an excellent round for short to medium range brush/timber conditions. A good 400gr bullet at about 2000 fps is hard to beat for anything in NA.
PS: I've hade my RSM in .375 for about 3 yrs now and love it dearly. It's a spectacular rifle in every way, but I do wish it was about A POUND OR SO LIGHTER!
...Keep them both ,, but if you can,t keep the 458..A friend of mine had one ..He worked up a load with 400 gr Barnes Originals at 2400 fps ........It was nice and light and easy to shoot well...........It just crumpled up big bears....
.If it can,t be grown , its gotta be mined ....
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I wouldn't have bought the Browning in the first place. They are the ones that killed off the M70 & 94, just to get rid of the competition for their push feed POS rifles under the Browning name, that they make cheap in China or Taiwan or some other god forsaken hole of a country.
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