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Hope this is OK to post, if not please delete. A friend of mine passed away recently leaving a few guns and associated items to be delt with. One of the guns is a Sig Sauer SHR970 in 9.3x62. He had it screw cut and comes with a wildcat predator 12 moderator. There is also lee dies, lapua brass...

I had puffin on the ferry heading to Noway once, absolutely delicious

I cannot see past schmidt and bender. For a rugged hunting scope with great light gathering ability they are fantastic. I have 3 Hungarian S&B's, all bought second hand and I haven't had an issue with any of them.

My 30-06 and 6.5x55 are both tikkas, one is blued with a walnut stock and the other is blued with laminated stock and both wear a 8x56 schmidt and bender. I love the simplicity of the fixed power scope and the light gathering in the S&B scopes is fantastic. I definitely think that it helps me...

That's Frankie off the mark with his first 2 geese. We had a small flock of geese come in perfect, he picked his bird, fired a shot and down it came. The next lot came in a bit further out and moving a bit faster, he picked his bird and fired, a bird peeled off and landed in the loch. There was...

When I was 12 years old we were in Norway on a family holiday. I had some money saved up and spotted a knife that I had to have, dad took a bit of persuading but in the end I bought the knife. At 12 years old I didn't have much use for a sheath knife and didn't realise how good it actually was...

Yes they are greylags, we get the pinkfeet passing through in October but they dont usually hang around for long. Barnacle geese too but they are protected.

Great to be out again with the gun and the hound for the first day of the wildfowling season. I have been wildfowling since I was 13, i am nearly 40 now and still i cant sleep the night before opening day. I was up and making coffee for the flask at half 3 and in the field for half 4 all set up...

Here is my m70 super grade, cabelas limited edition 375h&h. I've just worked up a great load using 300gr woodleigh rnsn, hopefully, if I am spared, i will make it back to Africa and try some buffalo hunting.

Beautiful rifle, look forward to seeing how well it shoots.

The biggest problem I have here in Shetland is getting powder and primers as it cant be sent in the post. Also there is very little of the hodgdon or IMR powders available here in the UK now, certainly none of the usual ones that would be used in the 375. I use alliant RL19 and RL22 in my 6.5x55...

There was no signs of pressure, bolt lift was easy and the primer looked fine. What I might do though is keep the ammo in a warmer room and try again just to be sure, the temperature here is a lot lower than what I experienced in Africa. My only reason for using the steel target is because it's...

*Please do not copy any of the loads shown below. These loads were carefully worked up in MY RIFLE and may not be safe in another rifle* Hi all. I finally managed to get my hands on some woodleigh 300gr rnsn and started on some load development last night. Using N140 I loaded up 9 cartridges...

What a fantastic hunt, well done on the buff, stunning trophy. I have shot geese with a 4 bore shotgun plenty before but never fired a 4 bore rifle. One of the double 4's I used was nearly 27lb and I was glad not to have to carry that far, cant imagine carrying it around in the hot African sun...

A friend of mine was needing room in his cabinet and wasn't using it much so I bought it from him. There is always a few spanish side by side for sale here in the UK on guntrader, especially after the wildfowling season.

That's a nice looking gun, congrats.

The last time I had a 10 bore I really struggled to find cartridges bigger than an American #4 (turkey loads) but now that gamebore is making the rhino cartridge with #1 and BB it will be good to see how I get on with it.

Just picked up this 10 bore side by side. I had one years ago but it really did not fit me well at all, this one fits a lot better so we will see what happens when the season comes around. It's an Eibar made in Spain, a nice English gun by Tolley or Baker would be nice but they are harder to...

L E Wilson for me, great quality

I am from the UK and have just recently acquired a 375H&H. The police granted it to me no questions asked however I was heavily restricted. I wasn't allowed to fire the gun in the UK, I wasn't even allowed to have it outside the house unless I was heading to the airport to go abroad. After...

I have 3 Tikkas, a 30-06, 6.5x55 and 223. After buying the first one, 6.5x55, and seeing how accurate it was I couldn't see past them. Fantastic value for money IMO.

I am aware that the swede is .264 I was just trying to figure out what these .261 bullets were for but I have just seen online that RWS made 159gr .261 bullets for the mannlicher- schoenauer. I got a box of them in with a mixed batch of various 6.5 loading gear from someone that was giving it up.

What was the outcome of this problem, I would be interested to know? This came up in a google search as I was looking up 6.5 bullet diameter. I have a box of RWS 6.5 160gr bullets that I was going to work up a load for in my 6.5x55 but when it came to seating the bullet it fell into the case...

I have a tikka t3x hunter with warne steel mounts and a schmidt and bender 8x56 and it weighs in at 8lb 6oz. I dont care for recoil but it really is not bad to shoot. The schmidt and bender scope is a heavy scope, I reckon with a leupold 2-7x33 or similar you wont be much more than 7 1/2 lb.

The rifle is a cabelas special edition 1 of 200, made in 2012 to commemorate 100 years of 375H&H. It's a super grade made to pre 64 spec. I weighed it today with the scope, sling and 3 bullets and it came in at 10lb 12oz. I cant get over how little recoil there is, it fits me like a glove and...

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I had good news yesterday from the police, the restrictions they had put on my licence regarding the 375H&H has been removed. When my licence came back after applying for the 375 it came back with 2 restrictions, firstly I couldn't fire the weapon at all in the UK and secondly it couldn't leave...

I will do. Where I live (tiny island in the north sea) there is no ammunition available, the gun shop has ordered some but I have no idea when it will arrive. I almost have everything I need to reload for it, just waiting on a shell holder and case trimmer to arrive then i will be able to load...

I heard back from Winchester today. The rifle was made in 2012. Cabelas had 200 of them made to commemorate 100 years of the 375 H&H.

Living where I do I had never seen a m70 in the flesh, now that i have my m70 super grade i cant stop looking at it, they really are stunning rifles. A good friend of mine has a fantastic collection of Tolley big bore shotguns and I could spend all day looking at that shotguns. Beautifully...

It's a beautiful rifle, do you know if was a British man you sold it to?

Pretty sure this is the same rifle I have just bought. @jeffpg do you have any info on this rifle, I would love to know more about it?

Pretty sure this is the same rifle

Not sure, the gun fits me so well that the irons come up absolutely spot on. If I do put a scope on it will probably be a zeiss v6 in quick release rings.

Thank you for all the comments. I would appreciate any info anyone can get as all I know so far is that a gun collector flew it over her to the UK at some point and it was reproofed for the UK. The serial number is 35CZY00920. I have emailed cabelas and winchester, I will share any info I get.

Just wanted to share with you guys my new edition to the cabinet. It's a new to me winchester m70 super grade in 375h&h. Absolutely delighted with it, I've never owned a rifle that fits as good as this winchester, it comes up perfectly.

I loaded a few 143gr ELD-X's for my 6.5x55 the other night and I did see a slight ring after seating, that was using lee dies. I did see somewhere that lee will make a seating stem to suit whatever bullet you want to use.