After seeing your signature line, I thought you might wish to see a real hunting gun!

Not like one of those show pieces you build

You need to get that rifle out of the gun vault and take it hunting!!

It's a sad day when the front bumper of the old hunting truck looks better than your rifle.

Scope looks nice.

Saeed,
Love that finish, and it looks broken in also
What calibre is it?
Chatlie

Definately utilitarian. Reminds me of some of the M14's and 16's I saw and used 40 years ago.

That is exactly my type rifle. No duct tape??????? roger

Just needs a can of Krylon spray paint and it's ready for another ten years of buff hunting...

Would make a good Leupold commercial.

Saeed, are you trying to stir sh!t up around here.....?

Love the rifle.... It has as much 'character' as Walter!!!

Regards,
Dave

Just goes to show that fluted barrels look like $hit on a hunting gun...

:-)



MKane160

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It's a sad day when the front bumper of the old hunting truck looks better than your rifle.

I don't see a scratch on that Leupold though!

You don`t get that rifle off the bumper you`ll forget and run over it again. We are suppose to learn from our mistakes, remember.......

OK, who the hell swiped my rifle out of the work pickup and took a picture of it??

Jim

You guys are off the hook for now......its not nearly dirty enough to be mine.




Jim

This is the original 375/404, designed by myself and built by Dwight Scott.

The above target is typical of its shooting, whether I use 300 grain Barnes X bullets or as the one you see in the photo above, one of our own 300 grain Walterhog bullets.

This rifle has accounted for several elephants, lions, probably 60 or 70 buffalo, and literally 100 of other African game animals.

It works great, whether I am shooting an elephant at 12 paces, or an impala at over 400 yards.

The scope is a Leupold 2.5-8X, in Dakota mounts - the rifle is build on a Dakota 76 action, just like the other one I have built.

These two rifles go to Africa each year, and get used by several hunters.

They both use the same load. And the same brass cases get reloaded each year. Last year was teh first we had to discard a few due to case neck splits - actually they were split last years, but, I just loaded them one more time to shoot in Africa and leave them there!

Some of our American friends eyes almost pop out of their sockets when they see what we do with our rifles and ammo sometimes.

I will never forget the look on Dwights face when he saw my loaded, but unformed, ammo for this rifle.

We did not want to waste powder and bullets fire forming the cases, so used RWS 404 brass to neck it down to 375. The cases looked rather strange with a convoluted neck!

"Are you going to hunt BUFFALO with these?" Dwight asked.

"Yes" I answerd.

He only managed "OH JEEZ!"

Remington copied our wildcats, with very minor changes, and called the RUM magnums.

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Remington copied our wildcats, with very minor changes, and called the RUM magnums.

Sounds like copy right infringement Saeed, Maybe you should sue. Oh wait that was some one else. The rifle looks great to me by the way.

Shawn

I think there actually might be a market for "broken in" looking rifles. Think about it, people by jeans that are worn out and torn, I personally have antiqued photos to get that worn look. We have all heard about the hunters that show up in camp with the newest this or that, expect the guide to kill their game for them etc. I think a lot of these guys would be happy to buy a used looking rifle to lend credibility to themselves.

Red

Is that a Jim Borden/Rimrock stock?

What was the vehicle - at first glance I thought Land Rover, but the bumper don't look right.

Pete

pdhntr1

that looks just like the P-14 303 british sitting here in the gunsafe.. except this one has a silver nikko stirling scope on it...

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Originally posted by Pete Millan:
What was the vehicle - at first glance I thought Land Rover, but the bumper don't look right.

Pete

The swivel balls are visible - its got the short drag link on the left hand side that would be for a right hand drive LR.

Can't be a Defender - its got leaf springs.

Series I/II/IIa/III - the front differential drain plug isn't vertical like all I've seen?

If you lot have the same knowledge of rifles as you do of cars we are all in deep bloody shit!

It is a genuine Toyota Landcruiser!

I figgered it wasn't a Landy.

Who made the stock???

The stock is from McMillan.

I had to go look at photos of the complete truck before I could answer

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Originally posted by Saeed:


Remington copied our wildcats, with very minor changes, and called the RUM magnums.

Here is a pic of a .375 RUM for comparison (4th from left):



left to right:
.375/.338 Winchester
.375 H&H
.375 Weatherby
.375 RUM
.375 Lapua
.378 Weatherby

I have built a rifle I hope to make as beautifully ugly as Saeed's .375/.404 (.375 UAE: .375 United Arab Express).

Mine is a .375 Lapua on a CZ action with 26" No.6 stainless fluted 1:12" twist Dan Lilja barrel, in a South African ArmTec synthetic stock painted black, with 2.5-8X Leupold scope, of course. It has a good start on ugly.

Looks like you have been using as the bumper.

Seriously though, Good Shooting there Saeed.