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A good friend of mine had a bizarre experience with this round, shot from a Marlin.

He shot a medium-sized whitetail, broadside, from about 50 yards with the 250 grain bullet. The deer dropped at the shot. When he got to the deer he noticed blood on its hind quarters and thought "Strnge, the sights were on the shoulder". Then he saw, on the ground next to the deer, a shiney object.

Yup.

The bullet.

It was bent a bit but otherwise demnstrated no sign of expansion.

The bullet took the deer in the shoulder, bounced off some bone and veered to travel a course lengthwise of the deer and then popped out, exiting heading BACK toward the shooter!

He still has the bullet, and it is weird.

I always wondered about the velocity of this cartridge, and personally think Daryl, as usual, has the "fix"; the lighter bullets running "fast" for this caliber. This is not, in my opinion, much of a cartridge for heavy bullets unless they are soft.

It always annoyed me that Winchester used the cutdown .38-55/blown-out .30-30 sort-of {I know the brass is heavier} for this round. I always wished they took the .444 Marlin case, opened it to .375 and used that to get a bit more velocity.

In fact, a project I have not yet accomplished but intend to if we are able to save our elk herds is to have a Marlin 1895 rebarreled to .38-56 {yes, -56, not -55}. THAT is a dandy round, and with modern bullets and powders would be a sheer killer, duplicating the 9.3x57 in virtually all ways, with options for light and heavy bullets, and 250 yard potential easy on deer.

Anyway, the Winchester 94's in .375 ARE handy, and with the right bullets, obviously killers as Daryl has posted.

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