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If you have both and can only keep one, which would you do?
Yeah, I know...keep both, but I'm thinning the herd and trying to make a list.
I will say that my inclination is to keep the 375.
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Unless you handload, .375Win ammo availability is scant & costly.
Whether you handload or not, the .444 is readily available and (since I've used multiple examples of both) possibly a bit more flexible, especially in the area of the availability of different bullet weights.
BlaineG wrote: ↑Mon Jan 08, 2018 7:26 pm It sounds like I've made up my mind.... Maybe.
Sell the Winchester, I need some .375 Win brass! First dibs on the brass! Oh, and any of those Hornady 220 gr FN you might have laying around!
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I have seen guns in 444 available at gun shows for a reasonable price. Not that way with the .375 Winchester. I would sell the 444 if I had to get rid of one.
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"IF" the 375 were a Pre 64 I'd say keep it , but we all know it's NOT . The 444 can do anything the 375 can do but that's not the case in the other direction . I have or have had both and now I only have 444's .
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6pt-sika wrote: ↑Fri Jan 12, 2018 4:04 pm
"IF" the 375 were a Pre 64 I'd say keep it , but we all know it's NOT . The 444 can do anything the 375 can do but that's not the case in the other direction . I have or have had both and now I only have 444's .
Indeed, the .444 has the edge in power and a bigger variety of bullets and loads.
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Unless you handload, .375Win ammo availability is scant & costly.
Whether you handload or not, the .444 is readily available and (since I've used multiple examples of both) possibly a bit more flexible, especially in the area of the availability of different bullet weights.
Did I read that you have a S & W 29? A long shot here, is it an 8 3/8" barrel model and is it a blue or stainless model? I would be interested as long as it has the long barrel. Please keep me in mind. Thanks.
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Steelbanger wrote: ↑Fri Jan 12, 2018 5:51 pm
Blaine,
Did I read that you have a S & W 29? A long shot here, is it an 8 3/8" barrel model and is it a blue or stainless model? I would be interested as long as it has the long barrel. Please keep me in mind. Thanks.
Mine is the 629PP, 6.5" with ports. I have it set up with a Red Dot and it's a ORH at 25 yards. It's also probably a keeper. I have a 72-73ish Marlin 1894 that might go on my Thin Out list.
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Steelbanger wrote: ↑Fri Jan 12, 2018 5:51 pm
Blaine,
Did I read that you have a S & W 29? A long shot here, is it an 8 3/8" barrel model and is it a blue or stainless model? I would be interested as long as it has the long barrel. Please keep me in mind. Thanks.
Mine is the 629PP, 6.5" with ports. I have it set up with a Red Dot and it's a ORH at 25 yards. It's also probably a keeper. I have a 72-73ish Marlin 1894 that might go on my Thin Out list.
My short list has a spot for a S&W 29-2 with a 4" pipe . Be kinda nice to have a blued recessed cylinder pinned barrel to go with my S&W 19-3 4" gun
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Winchester didn't make many 375's in AE format before they dropped the chambering. That's the one I'd keep, especially since you have the loading gear.
I.now have both 375 Winchester and 444 marlin in Winchester big bore 94.The 375 don't kick at all to.me and have lots of power .I have not shot.my 444 yet but I.also have a 405 Winchester should be about.like it but The Winchester is two pounds lighter than the 1895 Winchester I.have .The 444 is pretty awesome better than the 450 marlin because of brass made by starlings now .I can't wait to shoot mine go away snow and ice !
BlaineG wrote: ↑Mon Jan 08, 2018 5:33 pm
If you have both and can only keep one, which would you do?
Yeah, I know...keep both, but I'm thinning the herd and trying to make a list.
I will say that my inclination is to keep the 375.
Well here is my nickel worth of thought...if you can only keep one....I would keep the .375 BB. Just because the Marlin .444 has the slooow twist rifling. If it was .444 Winchester with the fast rifling, I might change my mind.