Advocatus Diaboli
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I am fortunate enough to have been drawn for an early rifle bull elk tag in Arizona this year. I decided that I’ll use my 375 H&H and set out to develop a load for my Winchester M70 using Barnes 250 grain TTSX bullets.
I subscribe to the OCW school of reloading. If you’re not familiar with OCW, you can read about it here: http://www.ocwreloading.com/. The short explanation on OCW theory is that certain bullets/calibers/powder/charges are inherently more accurate than others and will be accurate in any rifle assuming the rifle is capable of providing a modicum of accuracy. My experience on a police sniper team supports this theory as we had 10 rifles (Remington, FN, Blaser, and AI) that all shot Fed 168 Gold Medal Match ammo extremely well...but enough about OCW...that’s not the purpose of this thread.
I found that the 250 grain TTSX on top of 76 grains of RL15 is very accurate (Sub MOA). I also had similar accuracy with 75.5 and 76.5 grains of RL15. My OAL is the Barnes recommended 3.590”. I used Federal 215 primers and Norma brass. According to my chrono, the 76 grain loads average 2808 FPS out of my rifle.
I’m curious to know what your experiences are with 250 grain bullets and RL15 powder in the 375 H&H.
I subscribe to the OCW school of reloading. If you’re not familiar with OCW, you can read about it here: http://www.ocwreloading.com/. The short explanation on OCW theory is that certain bullets/calibers/powder/charges are inherently more accurate than others and will be accurate in any rifle assuming the rifle is capable of providing a modicum of accuracy. My experience on a police sniper team supports this theory as we had 10 rifles (Remington, FN, Blaser, and AI) that all shot Fed 168 Gold Medal Match ammo extremely well...but enough about OCW...that’s not the purpose of this thread.
I found that the 250 grain TTSX on top of 76 grains of RL15 is very accurate (Sub MOA). I also had similar accuracy with 75.5 and 76.5 grains of RL15. My OAL is the Barnes recommended 3.590”. I used Federal 215 primers and Norma brass. According to my chrono, the 76 grain loads average 2808 FPS out of my rifle.
I’m curious to know what your experiences are with 250 grain bullets and RL15 powder in the 375 H&H.