I have a .375 Winchester Ruger#3.
A pleasant accurate plinking load is the Lee 250 grain over 8 grains of Unique.
Any guesses what velocity would be?
I have a .375 Winchester Ruger#3.
A pleasant accurate plinking load is the Lee 250 grain over 8 grains of Unique.
Any guesses what velocity would be?
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Real close to 1,000 fps.
An old post here tells of a guy with a RCBS 250gr. in that cal. going 1143 with 9.5 of Unique.
Last edited by Winger Ed.; 11-11-2022 at 05:41 PM.
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Too light for deer at 50 yards and under?
Founder of the Single Shot section.
A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you have.
8 in the 10 ring, then I get a PING. Love my Garand.
No idea that's why I have a coronagraph, i don't guess.....
My son in another state borrowed my chronograph.
Founder of the Single Shot section.
A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you have.
8 in the 10 ring, then I get a PING. Love my Garand.
I'd guess around 1k too.
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With the same LEE 250 gr FN over 7 gr of Reddot is 1,100 ish in my 38-55 (Win 94 w/ 24" bbl) I would guess 1,000+ for 8 gr of Unique. That is in the range or real close to a 44 mag revolver velocity, a friend uses a 10 mm Auto out of a tree stand and has taken several deer over the years.
Quickload says ~ 1170 fps. Without refining the load parameters in the model, that's really no more than a S.W.A.G.
At 800 foot-pounds, some states would rank it too light for deer. Knowing as I do a guy who killed a doe under his tree stand with a .32 S&W (short) revolver, I wouldn't rule it out if you get close enough and can shoot.
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I'd try putting a fairly thick pad under the buttstock and see if you can pump up the speed some.
I've used a common kitchen hot pad safety pinned on my jacket to tame some heavy recoil
back in my full house 180grain .300WinMag days. It made a HUGE difference.
If you can't tolerate enough recoil for the cartridge to really do its job well--
I'd move to something with much lighter and faster bullets, or put deer hunting on the list of things I can't do anymore.
Last edited by Winger Ed.; 11-11-2022 at 09:30 PM.
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OK People. Enough of this idle chit-chat.
This ain't your Grandma's sewing circle.
EVERYONE!
Back to your oars. The Captain wants to waterski.
My RCBS Cast Bullet manual states a 250 gr. cast bullet with 9.0 grs. of Unique is 1176 fps.
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