My .375 H&H all redone

[Adam Stevens]

And here's alittle extra on the gun. As in the buttstock where the lead was added. They also added some to the forearm to maintain the balance. It is balanced beautifully.

And it was glass bedding at the same time. Very clean good work. My cousin sold me this rifle, I knew I was getting it for a great price but this gun turned out to be an even better buy.

 

[Adam Stevens]

And the story behind it. I've had dreams Africa as far back as I can remember. Probably as a kid to teenager I dreamt of hunting the dark continent. Not such where it came from, my dads never been and he never pushed it on me. The thought was all my own.

So when I turned 19 probably I was looking for a good larger caliber. Already had a .270. But then my uncle said his cousin had a nice .375 H&H for sale that would be perfect for moose.

I didn't even need to hold it to know I wanted it. Just something about a .375 H&H, its regal, its steeped in tradition. The thoughts dance through head of a "one" gun that's good for any animal that walks this planet, the adventure that would follow.

I met my cousin and met the gun. Each having more character and history then the other as the evening and stories progressed. Turns out my cousin was working in the Queen charlottes island logging back in the early 1960s.

He wanted a moose rifle and among other critters he loved the .375h&h. He later learned to load great rounds for it, packing lighter grains and speeding them up for deer. He was a true proponent for the caliber. It could do it all.

So back in the early 60s he choose to order the rifle through a small mail order business called Sydney issac Robinson mail order. Which turned into SIR. Which was bought and turned into Cabelas Canada now.

We ordered it while working up on the coast and it came. He had the lead work done and stock piece extended.

I will bring it to Africa. I have to.

 

[neckdeep]

Very nice bedding job, you better get to booking a buff hunt, lots of great deals all over Africa!!!

 

[Rick Cox]

Very nice gun. You got lucky on that wood!

 

[Witold Krzyżanowski]

After humming and hawing over buying a double, I decided to put alittle money into my old .375H&H Sako magnum Mauser to keep me happy and my mind off spending more money.

A local gunsmith installed a lovely red recoil pad, they scream safari and adventure to me, he had the rifle apart. The wood was cracked near the trigger inside and he did a cross bolt and glassed it for strength. He stripped and sanded and redid the finish.

And doing so, it reveiled a beautiful grain pattern inside the stock. We also figured warne bases would still allow use of the iron sights. I mounted a beauty leupold 2.5-8x36mm on QD rings.

Absolutely love the feel and look of this rifle. Need to find a buff hunt now in one of the wilder countries

That looks great. Congrats.
Witold

 

[Andy the Aussie]

That is a lovely project mate. Sakos are some of my very favourite rifles !! I missed a like new AV in .375H&H a couple of years ago and am still kicking myself. Prior to heading off to Africa a couple of years ago I decide to give my old Winchester Model 70 a bit of TLC to right the things I didn't like. I bought it in a bit of a whim around 1983 (I was 14 at the time) and it got a good work out on hogs around where I grew up before spending a couple of extended periods later in the 80s in the Northern Territory working over buffalo (before the eradication started) and big tropical hogs etc. Between then an now it came out from time to time for a novelty hog hunt.

I had never quite settled on mounts I liked nor did I like the urethane stock finish they had, worst of all was the two piece aluminium trigger guard that. Soooo over about 12 months I got new mounts, a new Williams one piece "Obendorff" steel trigger guard/floor plate and had a nice oil finish applied to the stock (at the some time the inletting was done for the new metal). I also replaced the old hardened recoil pad with a new one. All pretty subtle but improved it 200% to my taste. Some time huddled over the reloading press and I got a nice load worked out that went on to work a charm for me on my hunt.

Buying something new came be nice....making something how you want it can be VERY rewarding.

Andy

 

[D.M.V]

Home rolled 375 is fun 2 shoot !!!

 

[Dr Ray]

After humming and hawing over buying a double, I decided to put alittle money into my old .375H&H Sako magnum Mauser to keep me happy and my mind off spending more money.

A local gunsmith installed a lovely red recoil pad, they scream safari and adventure to me, he had the rifle apart. The wood was cracked near the trigger inside and he did a cross bolt and glassed it for strength. He stripped and sanded and redid the finish.

And doing so, it reveiled a beautiful grain pattern inside the stock. We also figured warne bases would still allow use of the iron sights. I mounted a beauty leupold 2.5-8x36mm on QD rings.

Absolutely love the feel and look of this rifle. Need to find a buff hunt now in one of the wilder countries

Looks very nice. Go take it to Africa now.

 

[AZDAVE]

Always rewarding to fix up something to make it YOURS! Go shoot some buffalo and anything else that Africa gives you

 

[Shootist43]

Thanks for sharing. I like guns with a little history behind them. If they worked well in the past, most likely they will continue to do so.