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Rebuilding my 375 RUM
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<blockquote data-quote="Tikkamike" data-source="post: 817209" data-attributes="member: 22242"><p><strong>Re: building a 375 h&h</strong></p><p></p><p>The reason I'm doing an h&h are I love that cartridge. Its been one of my favorites since I was a little kid reading about them. Also I wanted a shorter rifle and the h&h at 24-25" is pretty impressive. A lot of people may not know this but the h&h is very under loaded in the reload manuals.... the h&h is a 100 year old cartridge and there are a lot of old rifles out there in that chambering so they typically only load them to 50k-55kpsi for safeties sake. And all newer cartridges go to 60k-65k psi. If you load an h&h up its no slouch. I have seen 2800+ out of a 24" h&h with 270 grain bullets. Now the ultra is obviously faster especially with a 26" tube. But I wanted something shorter... why not an ultra with a 24"? Because an ultra really shines with a 26+. I have owned 2 ultras one in a 24" one in a 26" the 26 in my opinion is the way to go because at 24 it doesn't have enough burn time and hasn't really passed the h&h by much yet. Also this is my serious elk rifle. Probably my 500 yard rifle shooting 270 tsx. The h&h will do exactly what I want for its intended use. I love the ultra and I'm going to build another but my plan for the ultra will be a heavy barrel and a 28"+ tube throated to shoot 350 grain cutting edge bullets. Or something along those lines. I might do another one in a hunting rifle I'm not sure but that's where I'm at right now.... can't have too many 375's</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tikkamike, post: 817209, member: 22242"] [b]Re: building a 375 h&h[/b] The reason I'm doing an h&h are I love that cartridge. Its been one of my favorites since I was a little kid reading about them. Also I wanted a shorter rifle and the h&h at 24-25" is pretty impressive. A lot of people may not know this but the h&h is very under loaded in the reload manuals.... the h&h is a 100 year old cartridge and there are a lot of old rifles out there in that chambering so they typically only load them to 50k-55kpsi for safeties sake. And all newer cartridges go to 60k-65k psi. If you load an h&h up its no slouch. I have seen 2800+ out of a 24" h&h with 270 grain bullets. Now the ultra is obviously faster especially with a 26" tube. But I wanted something shorter... why not an ultra with a 24"? Because an ultra really shines with a 26+. I have owned 2 ultras one in a 24" one in a 26" the 26 in my opinion is the way to go because at 24 it doesn't have enough burn time and hasn't really passed the h&h by much yet. Also this is my serious elk rifle. Probably my 500 yard rifle shooting 270 tsx. The h&h will do exactly what I want for its intended use. I love the ultra and I'm going to build another but my plan for the ultra will be a heavy barrel and a 28"+ tube throated to shoot 350 grain cutting edge bullets. Or something along those lines. I might do another one in a hunting rifle I'm not sure but that's where I'm at right now.... can't have too many 375's [/QUOTE]
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