Just having a little fun, I'm always trying to come up with MY perfect arsenol, it's always changing, it's like a big numbers crunch. I'm actually not always looking for highest velocity round. I think 3000fps is a good place to put most big game rounds.....varmints I like to see 4000fps, which really is only the .220 or 22-250. everything else I aim around 3000fps, until the big bores......where 2400fps is my ideal. All of my rifle hunting has been done where potential for long range shots. I really haven't hunted big game up close, so I tend to go magnums or .30-06 over .308's 30-30's.

So my list I guess in part is developed to shoot 500yds give/take for everything. Until the big bores really.

If Ruger sent me to Africa, all expenses paid, and gave me a new rifle to shoot all my game with... I'd tell you that Jesus was on safari with me and he had two of them with a third on order. I enjoy Craig Boddington's writing, and he will tell you outright that a .375 Ruger is superior to a .375 H&H.... and its because his wallet tells him so.

I am not going to sell the farm for a gun with a slightly shorter action that gives only a measured 74 additional fps at the muzzle compared to a 375 H&H with a 300gr solid. Something as time tested and tried and true as a 375 H&H will do fine. If you want more out of a .375..... buy an Ultra Mag or a .416.

I'm really not a big craig fan at all, just thought I'd counter, whoever said whatever....earlier....

If we wer ecomparing .375 RUM, or any other .375 I'd say there's just not chance to compete, but this .375 ruger really offers somethign more, extra 100fps, or so, and a shorter action, ie .30-06 length, I think .375 dakota might as well, though its a proprietary cartridge, so for popularity etc.....I think the ruger has a chance, and with the name ruger I think alotta ruger guys might decide to get one. Kinda a cheap .375....but I do hope they offer it in something nicer soon, whether its ruger or someone else. This is 1 new round I'd like to see succeed. I like that its beltless and shorter, though the .375 h&h being 1 of if not the most popular round in the world is something to consider, as I will be before I buy one. Also so many others chamber the .375 right now, but if the rugers popularity rises.....

Listed as - I think is most popular for theslot
* tend to agree or (differ/comment)

.22322LR (CF 22-250)
.243.243win (6mm rem)
.25725-06 rem*(considerations to the 2506AI)
.2646.5x 55 (6.5-284)
.277 270 Win.*
.2847mm rem mag( I like most .284 cartridges butmy choice is with the masses at present.Though mynext 7mm will be a STW!!)
.3083006(.300wm - whats not to like about this cartridge. It handles the .308 big game gr sizes very well.)
.323325 wsm(Looking one up or one down,a slot that doesn't need to be filled IMO)
.338338 wm.*
.375 375H&H *
.416 416 Rigby *
.458 458 Lott*

My Thoughts

.223 22 mag
.243 243 Win
.257 257 Wby
.264 6.5x55 SE
.277 (probably skip this oneand get a 7mm-08)
.284 7mm Rem Mag
.308 308 Win[/b]
.323 325 WSM
.338 338 Win Mag
.375 375 H&H
.416 416 Rigby
.458 458 Lott[/b]

Very good pointand not to mention that the 375 will not be affected by the heat and humidity like a stoked 375 Ruger will be.

Lets see I started with:
22 LR
270 Win
35 Rem
35 Whelen

Then added:
22 Mag
358 Win

And want:
222 Rem
7mm 08

With that I am very well equiped and happy, and always happy to get more too.

Posts like this show just exactly why the companies continue to pump out "new and improved" versions of tried and true models that have been around for 75-100 years....and also why that "new and improved" version has almost disappeared completely within 10 years... Gunwriters are bought and sold daily likes stocks on Wall Street.....anyone that believes a positive review from them needs to take a long look at who butters their (gunwriters)bread...

I like the shorter cartridges myself.. So I shy away from the 06... With that being said.. If I had to pick one in each caliber I would probably go with

22-250 - Have
243 and 6mm - Have
257 roberts - Would like to have
260 Rem - Would like to have
270 WSM - Had
7mm08 - Have
308 - Have
325 WSM - Would like to have
335 - Would like to have
444 Marlin - Have

I'll stop there because anymore "Would like to have" would probably end in divorce..

223
220 Swift
6mm Rem.
.257 .250 Savage ?
.264 6.5 X54mm Mannlicher
.277 .270 Win.
.2847X57mm Mauser ? (7mm-08 maybe?)
.308 Win.
.30/'06
.308 Norma Magnum
.323 8X60 S8X60 RS ?
.338Ein Mag
.340 Wby
.375375 Ruger
.375 H&H
.416.416 Rigby
.458 .450 Rigby
.500 Nitro