375 Ruger with Speer 270 grain BTSP Bullets

[shortstuf92]

I have a couple of rifles in 375 Ruger caliber and would like to get a little more use out of them. I would like to use them for whitetail hunting here in Northern Wisconsin yes I know it's way over kill. Has anybody used these bullets in a reduced load if so do you have load data and results? What's a good velocity range for these bullets? Both of my rifles have a lot of free bore the OAL with these bullets to the lands is 3.575" and my max. magazine length is 3.375 so the bullet is going to be jumping at least .200. Do all the rifles in 375 Ruger have this much free bore. I have tried other bullets and they all have to jump a long ways. I don't like a bullet to have jump that far what do you guys think? Any help would be great Thanks

 

[RL338]

Down here in Central WI , the 375 wouldn’t be overkill. I shot a lot of those 270 Speers out of my 375 Wby in the upper 2800’s with either N555 or Hybrid 100V. I haven’t used them on deer just paper and steel. For deer the Barnes 250gr TTSX would be a better choice at full speed.
I use the CEB 330gr MTH single feed for deer.
As far as overall length the 270s work well from mag box length for me.

 

[salmonchaser]

I’ve shot a couple of black tail deer with the 375HH. Years ago but as I recall I probably did so with 300 gr Partitions. What I recall most is they were dead, deader is of course better. No bullets recovered and you could eat right up to the hole.