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.375 H&H @ extended ranges
Posted by Brian Richardson on Mar 17 2006
The .375 H&H is fully capable of accuracy at 300+ yards! However, in this case you need to sight it in for 300 yard shooting or get a rangefinder and use a multiple aiming point reticle on your scope or targeting turrets for dead on holding. Sight in for any 50, 100,150, 200, or 250 yard zero and you will very likely miss the 300 yard shot low.
What you are looking for on a 300 grainer soft point if sited in for 200 is <5” at 256 yards the corresponding zero is between 17 & 18 yards away. This sight in is not at all practical for this load.
Somewhat practical would be the 200 yard zero that would also sight you in on targets between 22 & 23 yards. The 200 yard zero is not a good notion for 300 yard shot placement as described in my first paragraph.
GOOD INFO TO KNOW IF YOU ARE A .375 H&H FAN!!!
The most practical sight in for the .375 H&H is 100 yards! You end up dead on at 50. The other nice thing about the 100 or 50 yard corresponding zeros is nice and easy math of “doubling-up” just about -5” at 200, around -10 at 250, and close proximity to -20 at 300 yards. This is for a 300 grain .375 H&H 326 BC soft point at 2530 fps. AGAIN GOOD INFO TO KNOW IF YOU ARE A .375 H&H FAN!!!
Even with a 100 or 200 yard zero it would still add up to at least OFF target or a complete miss at 300 yards using a .338 REM. Ultra 250 grain factory loading. Same goes for the best extended range offerings in 300 WIN MAG… we are talking 1-2” of difference flatter with regards to the same 200 yard zero from the .338 RUM on a 300 yard target - & that is insignificant on the full scale of drop.
The thoughts of clear-cut, accurate holdovers from a familiar sense, and what I’ve been chiming in on as of late on the forums is a notion hardly ever advisable. Your buddy “frankly”… lets’ just say for example was sighted in for 200 yards on his .375 H&H using 300 grainers did one of three things wrong as far as the straight up math goes on shooting the 300 yard shot:
1. Best case scenario --- He was just barley beyond a 10” window of PBR high to low shooting just lower than -5” low of dead center having a dead steady hold.
2. Most likely development --- He was actually sighted in for 100 yards and while aiming for a slightly over 20” inch pizza target (just to throw another illustration out there) missing altogether with a POI of >11”
3. Very likely follow-up to #2 ---
A. trying to estimate hold-over (plus possible wind drifting) w/ out a clue
B. Poor marksmanship for whatever explanation
C. Taking more than his MRS (a new coined phrase by me meaning Maximum Responsible Shot that is to each their own)
I am saying this not as a downer – its simply all part of a complex set of instantaneous circumstances that have a cause and effect relationship with good or bad results.
Now and then I see it can be compared to the Hail Mary pass or full court shot at the buzzer. A game winner if you make it w/ all cheering. If you don’t you come away a looser, but no one gives you crap all agreeing those are really easier said than done feats. To the contrary, hunting game and making those long one shot drops does deserve shooters praise regardless of the statistics. Yet a miss or wounded game at extended ranges is for certain gonna get you skinned on this forum.
There is no need to get fancy on a Kodiak Blacktail even when it’s 260 yards out. My best advice is to aim dead nuts on and recognize (try to verify if possible) the kind of window you are shooting into.
If I was cornered into choosing the .375 H&H or the .338 RUM... I'd go the .375 H&H - any hunt - any day!!! I know the guns, the loadings, its' capabilities paired w/ my own, and use it for just about everything, anywhere!!!!!!!!!!
Brian Richardson
http://www.northernrim.com
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