...any thoughts on this caliber in a standard large-ring Mauser action? Any experience/advice is appreciated.....

Please do a search in this forum on the matter.

several of us have buitl them, love them, and match 375hh FACTORY/CLASSIC loads.

jeffe

Hey Hornetguy, I've shot Jeffeoso's and liked it so well I'm having one built on a 1936 Mexican Mauser with a PakNor. I agree with Jeffe, it's the ultimate hog gun.

Hornetguy,

Mine works fine in the 20" barrel Steyr ProHunter. A bit more barrel in a Mauser action would be "more fine" I believe.

As Jeffe says several have been built be list members, and no complaints have emerged.

Steyr-Mannlicher is not building rifles in the caliber just now, although one factory guy said they would if someone ordered 100 rifles.

I would plan on handloading to get some premium bullets. The Hornady factory load is on the soft side.

jim dodd

Jeffe....
maybe you can educate me as to the finer points of how to search this website, but everytime I do a specific search, I get all kinds of TOTALLY unrelated topics, most of which are very recent.... HELP!!!

It would make a nice rifle in a Mod 98 mauser and its an easy enough conversion by all accounts, however my question would by WHY, when you make a 375 H&H on the same action and have a lot more gun or load it down to the Styrs balistics.

Ray, it's another one of those pointless but perfectly lovely exercises in gun ownership.

Tigger,
I suppose your right, we have all been down that road.

Yeah, Ray
It's kinda like why would someone build a 404 when that same action will hold a 416 rem?

Or, actually, a 376 is an EAISER fit into a mauser, with the potential for correct mag geometery, without spending a fortune and waiting 6 months... and nearly 100% of the action left in place, without major mods, like a 375...

I dunno, ya'll... a 98 will hold a 416 taylor or rem.. but's it's a FAR cry easier to get the taylro to work....

376 is open the bolt face, spend 30 mins on the feed rails, and it'll hold 4 down

jeffe

<sorry, just getting some digs in>

The 376 will match the book loads, so a 225 at ~2900, and a 300 at 2500, with a 24" barrel...

make it a carbine, 20" and 7.5" with iron sights, and loose ~75 fps

jeffe

Ray...
I was just under the impression that it would be a lot less labor intensive to modify a mauser for the Steyr than the H&H.... It seems like you would just have to open the bolt face slightly, and maybe touch up the side rails to tweak the feeding.... I was thinking that the full size 375 required some pretty extensive mods, including lengthening the magazine well? I'm not sure about that, but that's the impression I had.
Heck, I really don't have a need for EITHER of the 375's..... nothing grows that big in Texas... and I have a 35 Whelen.... I was just browsing thru one of my loading manuals and saw it, and went "hmmmmmmm...."
Maybe one of these days when I can afford one of your trips, I can go after the big bears, or maybe even to Africa for plains game.... THEN I'll have a use for one...

I believe the .376 Steyr to be the .375 cartridge for a sporterized M98, for the reasons stated by Jeffe. I know a M98 can be properly opened up to the H&H, and I apriciate the skill involved in such conversions. However now days mosy people looking for M98 sproters are also wanting lower costs. And when you can get a M'99 or CZ550 properly set for the H&H for the prices they command why bother with such a conversion, other then to demonstrate the ability to do so.



Kristofer