375 Ruger Build

[UnckleBob]

SEAK hunters are buying Kimber Montana 8400 300 Win Mags and installing a new Lilja barrel profiled especially for that purpose. A rather cheap and easy conversion

What is a SEAK hunter?

 

[Decker9]

I’m heading up to look in a couple weeks while going on a black bear hunt in the area. I’d like to get the action in hand and see what all the $$$ are about.

Mike makes a great action but in this case I’d stick with steel instead of Ti to add weight. I’d like this rifle to be 9lbs scoped as it’ll have some wallop.


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Makes sense! Good luck on your hunt! I’m packing a 375-338wm this spring, love them big thumpers!

 

[HankBC]

Great idea with the lever…Bighorn Armory or Wild West Guns could make a great stopper.

Also came back to say that is a might skookem ram in your avatar. Damn!

Thanks mate, I think the avatar photo is my first ram in 2020. Good bases on that one. I took this stone 2 years ago and he made book, love the high country!

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[HankBC]

Makes sense! Good luck on your hunt! I’m packing a 375-338wm this spring, love them big thumpers!

Thanks Ed, I’ll keep you posted how the defiance ‘fondling’ goes when I’m up there. I see griffon and Howe put them in their rifles, so they can’t be bad!


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[HankBC]

Only regret is I wish I did a slightly heavier contour on the 375 (I have the barrel listed here actually). Not a recoil fan and the places I want to take it aren’t suppressor friendly.

Love the platform though and it’s nice to have a “big gun” that feels the same as my non-DG guns. I have a CZ550 that I’ve used to take some African DG and, while a great rifle, it just feels “big” all around. The Skuhl knock-off feels like my deer rifle carrying it around, just a little heavier.

I use it in the 9.3x62 configuration wearing a Maven RS1.2 and an AB Raptor in it. If I was to go hunting bears, I would bring it in that configuration.

This echos what I’m hoping to accomplish. I can’t play with suppressors up in Canada so I’d like to keep it heavy enough that I don’t need a brake. I had a 338wm that gave a good push so I’ll try to keep it similar to that.

I’ll thread it and use a brake at the range til the barrel speeds up and I get used to it.
Maven looks like a nice scope, I was thinking of a 1-8 or the nxs 2.5-10.


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[VernAK]

What is a SEAK hunter?

South East Alaska

 

[Sevens]

This echos what I’m hoping to accomplish. I can’t play with suppressors up in Canada so I’d like to keep it heavy enough that I don’t need a brake. I had a 338wm that gave a good push so I’ll try to keep it similar to that.

I’ll thread it and use a brake at the range til the barrel speeds up and I get used to it.
Maven looks like a nice scope, I was thinking of a 1-8 or the nxs 2.5-10.


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If I run the rifle in 375H&H, I have a Trijicon 1-6x, but the animals I intend to hunt with it are not long shots, many closer to spitting distance.

I like the 2.5x low end for the Maven and think it would be a good scope for bear where you could have a wide variety of ranges potentially.