It's only been 6 years since the original post, but since I have a Rem 700 LSS, I'll add my $0.02.

In 2004 I booked a Cape Buffalo hunt in Zimbabwe. Being a long time North American hunter, I didn't have a rifle larger than .30 caliber so I was in the market for a rifle for African dangerous game.

About that same time I saw an outdoor TV show where a Remington Exec shot a Cape Buffalo with their .375 Ultra mag. I read up on the ballistics of that cartridge, and decided that was what I needed for my buffalo hunt.

So I ordered a Rem 700 LSS in .375 RUM, a set of reloading dies, and 100 cases. The rifle arrived with a grey/grey laminated stock, and I loaded a box of test cartridges and headed to the range.

It only took six shots to convince me that the recoil of that cannon was not fun to shoot. To begin with, the factory stock was too short for me, and since I had made stocks for most of my hunting rifles, the factory stock just wasn't right.

So I ordered a grey/grey/rose laminated semi-inleted stock from Richards, and to also help tame the recoil, I had a local gunsmith install a KDF muzzle brake on the barrel.

When the stock blank arrived, I pillar and glass bedded the barrel and action, fully free floated the barrel, added two cross bolts in the action area, installed an in-stock mechanical recoil reducer, and a Limbsaver recoil pad. I hand checkered the stock with my favorite multi-panel, wrap around checkering pattern, and topped it with a Leupold 2-7x scope.

Back at the range, and the recoil was reduced to about the same as my 7mm Rem mag, and the rifle shot both Barnes 270 grain and 300 grain bullets sub-moa for three shots.

I took that rifle on hunts in Africa in 2005 and again in 2007. It performed superbly on both hunts for my Cape Buffalo and a variety of plains game at ranges of 30 to 348 yards.

My Cape Buffalo and my Remington 700 LSS in .375 RUM.