Is this a decent bargain?

I recently purchased a .375 Ruger and was looking at reloading. I found some .375 bullets on Gunbroker. Here is the link. https://www.gunbroker.com/item/794586843
8 boxes is way more than what I think I need however. I think 50 - 75 rounds would last me for years. But it seems like a very good price. Any ideas?

If that amount of bullets would last you for years then you ain't shooting enough.

Steel Candy said:

I recently purchased a .375 Ruger and was looking at reloading. I found some .375 bullets on Gunbroker. Here is the link. https://www.gunbroker.com/item/794586843
8 boxes is way more than what I think I need however. I think 50 - 75 rounds would last me for years. But it seems like a very good price. Any ideas?

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50-75 rounds would last me 3-4 trips to the range. But these if they go cheap, use them for breaking in your rifle and discovering any issues it may have. 100 rounds minimum in a DG rifle for finding any idiosyncrasies it may have.

And we haven’t even talked about practice rounds.

Depending upon what other guns you have and how similar they are, you may want those 250 grainers for special reasons like fast, flat shooting. And the 6 boxes of 270 grainers would be perfect for practice.

Now now now, 100 rounds last for years? We are all friends here, no need to make ludicrous statements like that, we won’t tell your wife, promise! Open up, surly you meant a couple days, weeks perhaps if momma won’t let you go to the range.
Seriously, I use speers for fire forming my 375 Whelen and 375 JDJ. There are much better bullets out there for hunting. I wouldn’t hit the buy button but you would be really shining if you can get them for 125 or so. Then you can spend more on brass and powder

Both the Speer and the Sierra are very usable bullets for North American Game. I particularly like the 250 Sierras. they work very well from an H&H on deer and elk, as well as the mentioned breaking in a rifle and practice.

At about 50 shots under simulated situations for each shot at game and $ and time constraints Africa hunts would be at most 1 per 5 - 7 years. So 75 rounds would last a while. If it was the only hunting rifle I had then I would burn through way more. Not looking for hunting elephants or lions. Plains game. Majority of the time the .300 WM would be gun of choice so the .375 is going to be only for the biggest PG. TY for the information.

Steel Candy, I personally only take a 375 H&H to Africa. You never know when something dangerous will show up. The smallest antelope I’ve taken with it is duiker. The largest was eland. It’s plenty accurate enough to hit a golf ball size target at 90 yards ( my croc for example). Not so good for jackal so far. Worked on Cape buffalo and will be used 2019 for lion.
Personally if someone has a 375, I don’t know why they would use anything else in Africa. JME & O. Once you start using it, I’ll bet you enjoy it more than anything else!

Not much good for serious hunting but OK for range time.

Well Steel,

It seems that you have it mathematically figured out right down to the last round, and I praise you for ingenuity on number crunching, but as you can see there are some pretty serious hombre's when it comes to nailing everything they shoot at with one extremely well placed shot.

One thing to keep in mind is that if you nick it and draw blood and it runs off you own it no matter how much it costs. So none of these guys take that chance and all drill in all position shooting and none are bwanna bonnet wearing bench queens as there just isn't any benches in the field.

As one member has pointed out he uses his 375 for everything and leaves lesser calibers at home. I must agree. And will tell you that for one odd reason a whole lot of pg seem to be somewhat fall down dead resistant.

A Impala....a beautiful little rascal....but sometimes will take off like you shot it in the ass with a ball bearing out of a wrist rocket when you blew his heart out the exit cave and you don't know that till it piles up at full tilt close to 100 yards away.

I think that you will find that the majority of the guys here won't take a first shot at anything after 300 yards. Of course should they hit and not stop you can pretty much well believe that the animal will get fired on if any shot presents itself.

Off hand and off sticks I practice at 25, 50, 75, 100, 150 and 200 yards at 3 separate ,6" paper plates on different positions at each distance. That's 18 rounds. Pretty easy with a 308......not so easy with a boomer, and until I can hit all 18 both I and that weapon ain't getting on the plane.

And that takes practice, probably the reason why so many here are handloader.

Another reason for handloading is because of custom bullets and load accuracy.

Although I own two 375's, I've never really hunted with them yet. The "normal" weight bullet for it is 300 Gr. Smaller game and longer shots are taken with the 270 & 250 grain projectiles. I load 300 Gr. Swift A Frames so I'm not sure if the bullets that are for sale are for "hunting" or "paper punching."

Not number crunching, just personal experience with rifles from .300 WM down to .22 long, shotguns from .410 to 12 gauge and pistols. While I have taken 500 yard shots at the range, in the field I have never taken a shot over 220 (range finder on an elk 219 yards). Never shot a .375 and will only know if more practice with it will be needed or not after I do. So far my approach has worked well for me, with only 1 animal not dropping where I shot it and I know what happened there. Thank you for the information supplied.

I have relatives that sight in their couple of rifles when they get them, then fire a couple rounds before the start of deer and elk season to verify there hasn't been a change, or adjust if there was; then when the are presented a shot at the deer or elk generally only need one shot, or at most two. At seasons end they clean and RIG their rifles and put them away until the next season. They are not "gun" people. They don't understand why I enjoy gun activities to the extent that I do. The idea of going to a range and shooting a total of fifty cartridges from a three or four rifles that were already sighted-in seems just wasteful. To them, the idea of buying eighty bullets in one purchase, regardless of price would be beyond comprehension. To me, I see 80 .375 bullets for about $.20 each as a great buy and would snap at the prospect. So to answer the question, yes, it does appear to be a very good deal; but as with any product, only you can say whether it is something that you would use.

Ray B said:

I have relatives that sight in their couple of rifles when they get them, then fire a couple rounds before the start of deer and elk season to verify there hasn't been a change, or adjust if there was; then when the are presented a shot at the deer or elk generally only need one shot, or at most two. At seasons end they clean and RIG their rifles and put them away until the next season. They are not "gun" people. They don't understand why I enjoy gun activities to the extent that I do. The idea of going to a range and shooting a total of fifty cartridges from a three or four rifles that were already sighted-in seems just wasteful. To them, the idea of buying eighty bullets in one purchase, regardless of price would be beyond comprehension. To me, I see 80 .375 bullets for about $.20 each as a great buy and would snap at the prospect. So to answer the question, yes, it does appear to be a very good deal; but as with any product, only you can say whether it is something that you would use.

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For the .20 each, are you assuming the bid won't go past $82? At a BIN price of $165, they are .41 each.

As far as lasting a few years, as others have posted, that amount of ammo used for serious practice is a drop in the bucket. Additionally, your rifle may HATE those bullets. Their use would only be good for stick practice at various ranges. I probably shoot three to five hundred rounds per rifle at distances in increments of 50 out to 500 meters before ever considering it and myself ready to hunt. The only exception to that was my first hunt with a muzzleloader but only because of shorter range capabilities. Longest shot was 330 yards.

What's sometime overlooked by those new to Africa hunting is the cost of each animal. If you don't practice much, are a little rusty and miss that whitetail, bear, elk or pronghorn or hit it in the posterior and lose it, that's one thing. If you whack an eland, nyala or a similar costing animal in the posterior and it runs off and isn't found, you still pay. Now if the hunter wants to save money and time and shoot twenty rounds into a paper plate at 100 yards on his home range and call it good, that's their prerogative. Just don't cry when the outfitter puts that lost four figure unbagged animal on the bill.

Just for some reference on the number of rounds you might to use to prep for a trip, I shot about 800 rounds, of just 375, in preparation for my trip this summer. I understand that might be a bit excessive, but compared to the price of the trip, it was a very minor part and well worth the effort.

Ammo, the cheapest part of the trip and I bet it's rare a hunter on here that has hunted Africa hasn't taken 5.5 kilos of it with him.

steel,

if you don't reload, and you can get cheap ammo, you should buy it!! buy it all if cheap enough, you can always sell it... but i bet you don't!

Steel Candy said:

I recently purchased a .375 Ruger and was looking at reloading. I found some .375 bullets on Gunbroker. Here is the link. https://www.gunbroker.com/item/794586843
8 boxes is way more than what I think I need however. I think 50 - 75 rounds would last me for years. But it seems like a very good price. Any ideas?

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Acquire and do the right thing. Shoot more!

Dr Ray said:

Acquire and do the right thing. Shoot more!

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Right on Dr. Ray. There's no such thing as too much trigger time.