Montana Rifle Company TSAVO in .375 H&H - Shooting!!!

What do you think the lott will weigh in at.

Imac45acp said:

The Tsavo's all weather sibling, the Brooks will have the machined in Pic rail like our other rifles. There's internal talk of making the pic/slick an option for either rifle, but hasn't gone much further than talks. We're not a custom shop, but substituting one receiver part number for a different one isn't a huge deal to me from an engineering standpoint. I'm sure the sales department wouldn't turn an order away in the case of a special request

Personally, I'm a KISS and function first guy and thought the integrated rail was a no brainer while designing the receiver. When we released the Junction, the amount of hate that came in for ruining the lines of the gun was pretty intense. My favorite line was referring to the rail as "An aesthetically Disgusting Cheese Grater". Loved it so much, we call it the ADCG rail around the shop! I'm not knocking anyone that wants a classic styled rifle, and happy we can make it happen.


458 Lott and 416 Rem Mag are the next two slated calibers. I really want to do a least a sprint run in 404J, and of course, expand out to left handed rifles sooner than later.

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That’s crazy that you got hate for the junction. I think it’s a beautiful rifle and the integrated rail is one of my favorite features

mitch4570 said:

What do you think the lott will weigh in at

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Shooting for a little north of 9lbs with a longer LOP in the version 2.0 stock. We probably won't have the Lott or .416RM ready until late in the year.

Build a left hand 404J and I'll buy one

Has anyone else landed a Tsavo this week?

I really wanted to use the Swift A Frames in 250 Grain for this rifle but I cannot find any Swift Pre-loaded ammo anywhere (I do not reload). This will not be a DG rifle. It will be for bear, moose, elk type stuff. Being as I can't get ahold of Swift, any other recommendations for this rifle? How about the Hornady 270 Grain Interlock? I can get them!

@migrabill - Barnes 300 grain TSX will have you covered for everything where a premium expansion bullet is needed.

358 Norma said:

I'm hoping they build it in 404 Jeffrey!

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I made a strong case for this build with their VP in Nashville during SCI convention. Like you I hope they do!

CAustin said:

I made a strong case for this build with their VP in Nashville during SCI convention. Like you I hope they do!

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Dang. If they do that... am I gonna have to buy another...?

Folks if I can get five people together to buy the Tsavo 375 I think we could get a pretty good group price. I know an FFL that would make a bulk order. PM me if you might have interest. Again we would need five besides me. I really like this rifle. I spent a good bit of time handling it at the SCI convention and at the same time trying to convince them to do a 404 Jeffery.

CAustin said:

Folks if I can get five people together to buy the Tsavo 375 I think we could get a pretty good group price. I know an FFL that would make a bulk order. PM me if you might have interest. Again we would need five besides me. I really like this rifle. I spent a good bit of time handling it at the SCI convention and at the same time trying to convince them to do a 404 Jeffery.

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You can sign me up for one of the all weather version.

They may be hesitant to build a rifle with such limitations on factory ammo and bullet designs.

Maybe lobby an ammo company like swift to make more ammo. Then lobby MRC to make the rifle.

Hooknbullet2 said:

You can sign me up for one of the all weather version.

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I could be wrong but I think the new Tsavo is only made in Fancy Turkish Walnut.

migrabill said:

I could be wrong but I think the new Tsavo is only made in Fancy Turkish Walnut.

Montana Rifle Co. Highline

Set in a McMillan carbon fiber game hunter stock, the Highline rifle features adaptive CRF, adjustable trigger, 3-position safety, and more!

montanarifleco.com

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Correct! The Montana Rifle Company's Highline is offered in a McMillian carbon fiber stock.

What people need to realize is that MRC is a manfacturing company, not a custom shop.
They design and offer rifles for the market, not for a few guys wanting something special.
Their prices relfect this. $3,295 retail for a very nice out of the box dangerous game rifle is a fair price.


Alternatively, Park West will built you a semi-bespoke (botique) rifle.
Park West's SD-76 Bushveld™ Bolt Action Rifle - From $8,495
Start adding options and very soon you will have a $10,000 rifle!




Park West's SD-76 Dark Continent starts at $11,995
The SD-76 Savanna starts at $10,495.

Folks, the chioce is yours!

MRC's parent company, Grace Engineering is a 50+ year old family owned business. Located in a one stoplight town Memphis, Michigan, they haven't stayed in business so long by going down money-losing rabbit holes.

@Imac45acp , Chief Design Engineer has shared with me potential future offerings of dangerous game rifles. Publically he has shared their next DGR will be offered in .458 Lott. Personally, I like the .416 Rem chambering but it is probably easier to sell the .458 than the .416.

As for low volume sales chamberings such as the .404 Jeffery, perhaps the .416 Rigby, .500 Jeffery, and/or .505 Gibbs, those are all based on larger case head diameters than those cartridges based on the .375 H&H rim diameter. Could a large (diameter) action be on certain people's minds? Yes, but one can be assured their TSAVO rifles will need to prove their marketability, i.e. profitable sales volume.

I've shot a MRC's TSAVO prototype and liked it. For fit and finish, and functionality, it is way ahead of a current Model 70 Winchester and far, far ahead of an out of the box discontinued CZ 550 Safari Magnum.

Imac45acp said:

Tsavos are shipping out pretty regularly, and I'm very excited to get them into hunters' hands. I think we're close to selling out the first 50 guns! More stocks are on order and expected in a month or so.

I'm trying to schedule up a play date with @Mark A Ouellette to see and shoot some production rifles. Unfortunately, they're shipping out as fast as we can make them. We also don't want to put bases on finished guns to avoid marring the Cerakote. I'm going to take the final proto rifle over to his range to run rounds through. That rifle is identical to the production guns with the exception of the finish. It's a satin H series finish, and we switched to a higher gloss Elite series that looks more like polished blue.

The 1st article stock for the Tsavo's all weather sibling is due in from McMillan any time and we'll be releasing it for production mid summer.

Many humble thanks,
-Ian MacDonald

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Is the last paragraph about an All Weather version not accurate?

@Mark A Ouellette good morning.

When you wee test firing the demo rifle how was the feeding on say aframes and CEB solids?

AZDAVE said:

@Mark A Ouellette good morning.

When you wee test firing the demo rifle how was the feeding on say aframes and CEB solids?

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Wow now! We test fired the rifle but did not prep it for a dangerous game hunt...
We shot only factory Federal ammo that @Imac45acp brought with the rifle.

That is a great question for several of my rifles have made special trips to my "retired" gunsmith for action function problems with feeding CEB Safari Solids and their 68% meplat on the forth or fifth round from the magazine.

Hooknbullet2 said:

You can sign me up for one of the all weather version.

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PM me please with specific interest

Mark does not remember. But I brought 5 rounds of CEB solids that Mark loaded for my wife’s rifle. To try in the Tsavo.

Here is a 5 round group of CEB solids. It seemed to feed them just fine. I was cycling the bolt slowly. Shooting for a group. Not racking it quickly. As we did later.

It liked the CEB’s