Opinions please: Pros/Cons of .375 Ruger vs .375 H&H

[colorado]

375 Ruger

375 H&H

 

[akrifleman]

375 Ruger

375 H&H

How is your mistress the Ruger? And how is a picture of a new model the H&H? If your gonna post a pic, at least try and be clever...

If you'd have put say Hedy Lamar as the H&H and then some modern flash in the pan, you'd have at least been clever. This just makes your joke even dumber without context. Come on man, step it up.

 

[Daisy]

How is your mistress the Ruger? And how is a picture of a new model the H&H? If your gonna post a pic, at least try and be clever...

If you'd have put say Hedy Lamar as the H&H and then some modern flash in the pan, you'd have at least been clever. This just makes your joke even dumber without context. Come on man, step it up.

Was gonna say the same thing. At least hit the golf ball that’s up on a tee

 

[Tex .416]

375 Ruger

375 H&H

.416 Rigby

 

[akrifleman]

.416 Rigby

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Ooooh... Nice choice... A true classic, that one.

 

[Tanks]

In the early stages of considering another trip to Africa and possibly Cape Buffalo and plains game. Not looking to spend $ thousands on a rifle I may or may never use. I reload several calibers and could load either .375. Mossberg, Ruger, Savage rifles available in the .375 Ruger. Thoughts?

Both are rat calibers and marginal for DG.

 

[generalzip]

I recently went through this debate. There are pros and cons to both. I ended up with a 375 Ruger for the following reasons:

1. More production rifles at a reasonable price available thanks to Ruger. I bought a Ruger Hawkeye FTW 375 Ruger. Vx3i 3.5-10 scope in Spuhr rings, silencerco muzzle brake and silencerco Hybrid. Toying with the idea of chopping it to 18.5" but want to see how it balances and shoots as is first.
2. Its simply a better case design. I'm not sure how anyone without bias could argue this. Shorter to fit in a shorter lighter action. More case capacity for 100fps more even in shorter barrels than the H&H. Removal of the stupid belt that is obsolete on modern firearms.
3. Same or greater ballistics in a shorter barrel. Shorter barrels are very handy for a brush gun or in places like Africa especially if you want to shoot with a suppressor.
4. Good factory ammo from Hornady and I hear they are doing a run of brass in June you can stockpile up on.
5. The 375 is inherently a more accurate cartridge (This is conjecture from many wiser than I)

The only disadvantages are 1 less round in the magazine. Factory ammo availability, but if you reload it's a moot point really. Those are the only ones I can really think of, so for me the pros for the Ruger outweighed it's cons. Perhaps one could say the H&H may feed more reliably, but I have not read of a single complaint of a 375 Ruger not feeding reliably so I did not consider this in my comparison because from my research they seem equally reliable in quality modern rifles.

Holding on to a caliber because of nostalgia is fine, but don't sit and act like it's a better cartridge by design because it is objectively not all other things equal.

 

[KJE81]

I went with .375 H&H even thought it made my custom rifle about 25-30 percent more expensive then it would have been with the .375 Ruger as chambering, the reason being that I think the .375 H&H is more classical for Africa, the increased ammo availability and I must confess also because I think that the .375 H&H as a cartridge looks more classy

 

[Daisy]