John

I took four animals with the 375 so still it is to early to evaluate everything, but here are my thaughts.

Heavy barrel and safari model gives a solid feeling for the african hunt. Ok heavy to carry but I have no problems with that. I have a Safari Ching sling attached and that works great.

Animals and results; bullet Barnes X 250 grains at speed 840 m/s

Kudu cow - standing 30 degres towards me at 100 meters. Perfect hit at the shoulder and the bullet penetrated all the way to the back leg. She took a dance and fell at the spot. I hope that the bullet was recovered and that I will have it in July.

Stenbuck - Shot it in the stomach and everything was blown away from the animal. Minimum meat damage though and it ran 100 meters. No bullet was recovered.

Duiker - about the same hit as the Stenbuck but ran 50 meters and was standing so I gave it another shot in the chest and it went down. No bullet here either (strange)

(the reason for the shot placement was for not spoiling the possibility for a shoulder mount.)

Warthog - BIG - 70 meters broadside about 10 cm back from the shoulder due to a branch in the way. Ran about 80 meters, broke both tusks on right side.

I hope to have more facts after the next trip in July when we will go for Zebra, Wildebeest and Eland.