Guy Miner
Master Loader
- Apr 6, 2006
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Got out to the range this morning for a bit with the .375 H&H. Goal was to sight in the old Redfield 2-7x, get familiar with the rifle, and run some ammo across the chronograph. Accomplished all three, still smiling, and shoulder is still intact. Recoil of the .375 had been described to me as more of a "big push" and I have to agree with that. The nice Pachmayer Decelerator recoil pad undoubtedly helped, as did the nice design of the Ruger stock, but the .375 just isn't all that bad of a kicker either.
Last three shots went into a decent cluster, about 1.5 MOA, from sitting with the scope set on 6x. These were 300 gr Sierras at about 2560 fps.
Interesting to me, the Ruger Tropical is about the same size as my old .308 Browning BLR, which I always considered a pretty compact, easy handling rifle. The Number One also handles nicely.
Tried a couple of different loads in the Ruger:
260 gr Nosler AccuBond, 76.5 gr H4350 = 2647 fps
300 gr Sierra SPBT, 75 gr H4350 = 2560 fps
Also had some 300 grainers loaded by the previous owner, using IMR 4064. They shot very well, at about the same velocity as my H4350 loads.
So far, so good. I like this rifle!
Last three shots went into a decent cluster, about 1.5 MOA, from sitting with the scope set on 6x. These were 300 gr Sierras at about 2560 fps.
Interesting to me, the Ruger Tropical is about the same size as my old .308 Browning BLR, which I always considered a pretty compact, easy handling rifle. The Number One also handles nicely.
Tried a couple of different loads in the Ruger:
260 gr Nosler AccuBond, 76.5 gr H4350 = 2647 fps
300 gr Sierra SPBT, 75 gr H4350 = 2560 fps
Also had some 300 grainers loaded by the previous owner, using IMR 4064. They shot very well, at about the same velocity as my H4350 loads.
So far, so good. I like this rifle!
