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Big Squeeze
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- May 29, 2007
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..............................Well! We all have our little pets, now don`t we?? I wouldn`t call it as you say a "mass abundance of exuberance"......Instead, I`m more inclined to call it "an underdogs delight" because it goes against the status-quo when a new kid on the block (a cartridge) is introduced. It threatens the well established personna or thinking, that the best all around 375 is non other but the H&H round....As you can read from the previous posts, the Ruger round CAN`T possibly threaten that already established status-quo! Why hells bells; it can`t do that!!.............Before I bought my Alaskan, I had 3 friends do everything they could to try and get me to buy the H&H instead. They didn`t read any reviews on the Ruger round. They weren`t open to anything else. They had no other reasons, OTHER THAN, the H&H round has been around since 1912 and you "FOR SURE" won`t find any ammo or reloading supplies for this 375 Ruger!! Its just too new!......Whoopy-do!... That`s not a good enough reason for me not to consider an alternative..........Aside from the round, I look at the rifle too! Isn`t that just as important? I prefer the handier, lighter, shorter or the more compact blasters.....Imagine that! A 375 Ruger from a 20" barrel which is capable of the same H&H ballistics from a 24" or 25" barrel.....Hmmmm!...........That will be one the big major keys to the 375 Ruger`s success; the rifles chambered for it! No 20" barrels in the H&H round. With its longer casing, the H&H can`t be as efficient in the shorter tube! But the .375 Ruger can!..... After my Alaskan came in "the boys" really like it now!....................BTW! I also own a 300 WSM Ruger Frontier w/ a 16.5" barrel. Earlier as well, they tried to talk me out of that one too! HELL! You`re gonna lose gobs of velocity!! That`s only a 100 yard deer rifle!! Bla Bla Bla! I read the reviews; they didn`t!! I knew things that they didn`t know..........Well to prove them I wrong, I chrono`d some reloads in their presence! That little 16.5" barrel well exceeds the ballistics of a 24" barreled 30-06!! One of them now owns a Frontier ............They tried to talk me out of my Elite 4200 too! BUSHNELLS SUCK! Well I got one. After they all looked through it, they now really like it...........................I just love the pre-conceived notions or assumptions that people have saying this sucks or that sucks or this won`t succeed or that won`t succeed. I just like spreading the final icing on the cake and letting my original intuition do the talking; hence "the underdog"...............TRIC":1wjv3rq2 said:
