Yep would buy a crate and never have to clean a rifle again .....Pity they don't have it as a 375HH. They'd sell them by the crate to Africans.
Pity they don't have it as a 375HH. They'd sell them by the crate to Africans.
Yep would buy a crate and never have to clean a rifle again .....
The thing that is funny is if you buy this rifle AND 80 loaded rounds, you have just doubled the price.
Funny thing is I got rifle dies brass bullets scope and new set of Talley light weights for the cost of #1 upgrade on a CZ would I take it to hunt Cape Buffalo don't know yet but if it behaves well next couple of years who knows.
Shawn
The same reason you probably don't have a folding table and lawn chairs in your dining room even though they work. Quality is an attribute that is difficult to describe, but very easy to recognize.I have the Patriot in 30-06, with wood stock, and I plan to hunt SA plains game in June with it. It has an Osprey 4-16 x 50 mm, 1/8" moa, mil dot, scope mounted on it.
Accuracy at 100 yds, 20rds inside a Kennady half dollar, zeroed 1" high center.
Dropped three deer, under 100yds, no problem. All three bullets in the kill zone, only one deer made it 40 yds from being hit. The other 2 deer dropped in thier tracks.
For me the rifle handles nice. I would prefer an extra inch of butt stock length, and a more " touchy " trigger, about 1-1/4 to 1-1/2 lbs pull.
For the money, I can say this is a great rifle.
For me personally, one of very few firearms equiped with iron sights. This allows me to hunt in heavy woods/ other areas where a scope is useless. Plus should something happen to my scope I can still hunt. Where as a firearm without iron sights, scope only. My hunt may be over before it gets started.
Mossberg and Savage firearms companies are producing firearms of really good quality, accuracy, and affordability that working people can afford to purchase.
I have expensive custom firearms and expensive manufactured firearms. Not to be rude, crude, or socially unacceptable, or otherwise offensive; But why pay thousands of dollars for such firearms when a firearm costing far less does the same job just as effective?
Does anybody think the animals we harvest really care if they met their demise by a $10,000.00 (plus) rifle or a $200.00, .25 caliber pellet gun, respectfully, (be it: small game, big game, dangerous game)?
My opinion: I think not!.
This will be my last post on this subject I joined this forum because it was one of few places that contained information on .375 Ruger.
I have gotten very much information from the people here and I thank you for it.
But I have also gotten friction for not having a H&H and then when people find out that the rifle I own is push feed I get more.
When I got my Mossberg Patriot it opened up to me a whole new world and since then I'm looking to see what I can barrel my 98 action I have in my gun safe. Problem is I don't know exactly what action I have for lack of markings on it and there are a lot of 98 actions out there that are not safe I know that it is a commercial action with a C ring beyond that it's a crapshoot.
So picking up a Mauser action or rifle to fill in for a cheap gun may not be a safe alternative remember many were made by slave labor in war conditions.
I would have never been able to get involved in shooting mid to large bore rifles without the Mossberg Patriot. Mossberg has had some trouble that is true but so has a lot of other gun makers triggers in Remington 700 just off the top of my head. One of the most recommended rifles on this forum, the CZ 550 when bought new comes with a recommendation to send it out for a upgrade at the cost of $700+ to cure feed issues, and that is not considered a problem.
My rifle had 2 problems the butt pad was not very good so I replaced it and the second magazine I purchased had two much spring pressure fixed it with a pair of wire cutters in less than 5 minutes.
The Mossberg Patriot 375 Ruger may be as far as I go into the big bore world but it also be the stepping stone to bigger and Better things.
And in a time when people are falling away hunting and shooting sports we need all the stepping stones we can get.
Sorry for the rant.
Shawn