.300 H&H Magnum

[ksp965]

Close to 30 years ago my stepfather gave me a Remington Model 721 in .300 H&H Magnum. It was purchased new in 1952 and it still had the two boxes of cartridges the orginal owner had purchased with the rifle. I still have the gun, have shot it a few times but never hunted with it. Has anyone else had experiences with this caliber and what do you like or don't like about it? The orginal owner bought it to hunt grizzly with it, but never took that trip.

[Larry Carter]

ksp,I haven't handled a 300 H&H since I was a kid in Dad's gunshop. Roy Weatherby killed the H&H but it still has to be a good cartridge. A cartridge hanging around since 1925 tells me something. I'm old enough to remember it being the premier long range target round so accuracy shouldn't be an issue.
Your post gave me the "what ifs". Now I'm remembering a Model 70 bull barrell in the 300 H&H that should have stayed with me.

[ksp965]

Thanks Larry,
I like the rifle. Maybe if I get to Elk Hunt I need to look no further than my closet for the right gun. What do you think?

[Larry Carter]

Out West?? I won't hold my breath about a general Ky season.

[Strutter]

We used to have a 300 H&H in a Ruger #1 or #3. Not sure which. My dad and brother shot it one time each. In that style gun it packed a real wallop. Had no scope so you had to get way down on that skinny little squared edge stock. Anyway, we traded for it from a guy from eastern Ky. Dad asked him what he had a gun like that for. He said that they used it to bust the engine blocks of scabbing coal trucks during some strikes back then. Not sure if that's true but that's what he said. As far as elk and anyhting else for that matter, it's more than enough gun for North American animals and many in Africa.

[ksp965]

Strutter, its entirely possible about the strike. About 1960 there was a major strike between United Mine Workers and independant miners. It was so violent and bloody that the National Guard was sent in to stop both sides. As a boy I remember the National Guard set up on our school grounds and us students being toured through their encampment. First time I ever seen a .50. Dynamite and machine guns, old army rifles and about anything else you could think of were used by both sides. Many vehicles were shot up, a lot of property damages took place through the use of fire and dynamite, and the wounding and even some killings took place all over eastern Kentucky. My brother and I was sent to live with our grandparents because our home was near two large tipples and it was too dangerous for children. Shortly after we left a railroad bridge near our home was dynamited. Nothing like them good ole days, huh?