Well, not really. I was finally able to let a friend shoot it and we more or less wrung it out at his place. I can't shoot for a while yet due to heart bypass surgery, so I went to his range and had him bench it for me.

Like most, the wood is plain and the finish on the stock leaves a lot to be desired. I had the stock shortened to my 13 1/2 inch of pull and when I got it back, kissed it a bit with steel wool and put a couple of good coats of linseed oil on it. It actually looks half decent now.

The metal is fine. Good polish and deep blue. No complaints.

EVERYTHING functions. It feeds flawlessly. One round at a time or 3 down and one up the pipe. All it does is feed, shoot, and eject. Everytime. We ran about 40 rounds through it without a bobble or glitch.

I put a 1x4 VXII in Leupold QD rings on, and after boresighting at 100 yards three shots had us at zero.

Federal factory 270 grain softs didn't shoot well. 2.3 inches center to center at 100 for five. At fifty seven bucks a box, I had hoped for better than that.

270 grain TSXs over RL 15 for 2600 fps went 1.5 inches for 5 at 100. Another 5 on another target gave another 1.5 inches. I figured push come to shove, I could live with that.

Then we shot the 270 grain TSXs over enough H4895 for 2650, and the rifle became a happy camper. Five in .780 at 100 yards. Five more went .730 at 100. Three of the five went .510. At that point I fell head over heels in love with the rifle.

Then we moved back to 300 yards and shot steel gongs rather than paper. The good ammo stayed at 2 1/2 to 3 inches, and the other reloads went into 5 inches. The factory Federal ammo gave between 6 and 7 inches at 300.

I might add that this was shot in a gusting wind as a front was blowing through. I commented to my friend who was doing the shooting that I didn't see how he could shoot that well in those conditions. He IS an extremely talented rifle shot with a scoped bolt gun and shoots and sights in a lot of rifles for a lot of people. His comment was that this Zastava 375 H&H shot better out of the box than 90% of the rifles that come to his place.

I am a happy man.

That's good to hear. I haven't shot my 458 yet but your report gives me hope.