375 H&H Dangerous Game build?

Marine sniper said:
I do a pretty good job of protecting my ears- messed up last year and shot an elk with a muzzle braked 338 Lapua improved with no ear on. I will never do that again.
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Forgetting to get the ear pro in a fast hunting situation keeps me from having muzzle brakes on hunting rifles. Keep in mind surgeons can do great work when fixing shoulders, I know I have my right one redone 3 times, none were due to recoil.

Hearing is much harder and maybe impossible to repair, so take your pick if you are shooting a big boomer.

Just my two cents,
wade
 
22" 375 HH dangerous game lefty for your viewing pleasure!!!!
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HARPERC said:
Interarms Mauser, Brown Precision Stock, 20" Douglas Barrel, 3 Position Safety, Canjar Trigger. Express Sights, .375 H&H, about 40 years old now.

Works great, but what I've learned along the way is doing it today the Pre-64 Model 70 would get the nod. Maybe a Jewel trigger, I'd lose the express sights. Muzzle break, Bartlein Carbon Fiber barrel, or fluted. I'd get a 1-9" twist to handle every bullet out there today. I'd go with a Mcmillan Stock, probably a Lazzeroni Thumbhole I have one I really like on another rifle. Probably target 9lbs scoped, 10-12 is just a little on the slow side for fast work.

Consider the Weatherby, or AI version, and you can always use the H&H rounds in a pinch, and a bit more pep with heavy bullets, and enough velocity improvement to add some range for plains game etc.


I looked at the Defiant, 3 position safety CRF, and that looks like an excellent starting point as well. It might make me give up on the Model 70.

Good Luck!
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Now this is my kind of .375 H&H.... long ago I owned one of the Interarms Mark X Mauser's "Whitworth" it was an "amazingly" accurate and reliable rifle, yep.. that was in my Elmer Keith dyas, love it'..., traded it off for a Sako .375 H&H sold it a month later wishing I'd kept the Whitworth.
 
HARPERC said:
Interarms Mauser, Brown Precision Stock, 20" Douglas Barrel, 3 Position Safety, Canjar Trigger. Express Sights, .375 H&H, about 40 years old now.

Works great, but what I've learned along the way is doing it today the Pre-64 Model 70 would get the nod. Maybe a Jewel trigger, I'd lose the express sights. Muzzle break, Bartlein Carbon Fiber barrel, or fluted. I'd get a 1-9" twist to handle every bullet out there today. I'd go with a Mcmillan Stock, probably a Lazzeroni Thumbhole I have one I really like on another rifle. Probably target 9lbs scoped, 10-12 is just a little on the slow side for fast work.

Consider the Weatherby, or AI version, and you can always use the H&H rounds in a pinch, and a bit more pep with heavy bullets, and enough velocity improvement to add some range for plains game etc.


I looked at the Defiant, 3 position safety CRF, and that looks like an excellent starting point as well. It might make me give up on the Model 70.

Good Luck!
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That is a GREAT set up. I have many Mark X's, Brown Precision stocks and Douglas tubes.

I would probably go with 22", peep sight and patridge front sight.
 
LRNut said:
I am finding more and more PHs wear hearing protection. I can't imagine not doing so even if the rifle has no muzzle brake; brake or no brake, constant exposure to gunfire is going to cause hearing loss. I only recognize 34% of spoken words from my left ear.
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I'm at 28% and 2% caused by the aforementioned no hearing protection.
 

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