I love the 375 Raptor. I plan on making more videos for it here within the next few months.

@@yellowhammeroutdoors5516 what twist and length Barrel? are you using

They sure do! I used their tool to remove the barrel nut. I like having teeth over a smooth barrel nut though. The one I used is a Savage patterned barrel nut so I can use my savage barrel nut wrench with it.

Thanks, brother. It’s been years in the making. Be sure to hit that subscribe button. Next video will have a giveaway.

Thanks for the watch!

@@yellowhammeroutdoors5516 absolutly!!!👍👍👍👍

I agree! It’s an amazing round! What platform is yours built on?

It’s a bolt action I took my 308 tc compass for the project and the barrel came from x caliber also shoots amazing and it’s sitting on a Boyd’s stock and it’s bedded also

Barrel on my Savage is an X-caliber as well. It’s a Savage Big Varmint profile which means it tapers down to about .810. It’s definitely a heavy barrel and the spiral flutes help reduce weight. It’s chambered in 6.5WSM. Barrel life will not be as good as the .375 Raptor. You are right about barrel life being better than .308. It’s a soft shooting gun and one shot, one kill for big hogs. 6.5WSM is a wildcat based on .270 WSM but with better selection of bullets and better BC for long range. I’ll do a video on the Savage shortly to really go over everything on it.

I have left the PTG barrel nut on there for now but I have been eyeing the Bug Nuts barrel nut for a little while and I may upgrade here soon.

Makes a perfect bear round!

375 Raptor is an awesome round!

No problem with headspace at all.

.375 is definitely a wildcat cartridge. Niche cartridge, for sure.

I love the platform and caliber. How are you enjoying your build?

@@yellowhammeroutdoors5516 I'm finishing converting brass now. Then I need to start on my loads. Still haven't finalized what optic I'm going to go with

I’ve been developing 250gr. and 270gr. Loads using Benchmark. I’ll be doing a video soon with the results on that.

Yes, 375 Raptor is based on a .308 caliber so it is easiest to do it that way. You can use any short action rifle caliber with a .308 bolt face.

Great question, I considered the .338 federal and I actually use .338 federal brass to form 375R. However, 375 RAPTOR changes the shoulder angle from 20 degrees to 35 degrees to provide a well defined datum point for the cartridge to headspace. In addition, the 375 RAPTOR is .150″ shorter than the 308 Winchester which permits up to .935″ of bullet exposure while keeping within magazine length - required to load the 350 grain Sierra Match King magazine length. This allows me to load very heavy bullets and still be able to load them in short action magazines. This gives me much more energy down range than a .338 federal ever could and also gives me the flexibility to load high energy subsonic rounds, should I have the inclination.

Headspace gauge can be bought from Pacific Tool & Gauge.

I went with a #8 light target contour. I wouldn’t recommend any bigger for the Hunter stock, it’s a perfect fit and free floats but you might run into issues with larger contours.

You can order the barrel and barrel but directly from X-Caliber. They have a sale going on currently.

Whitetail and hogs. It packs quite a punch. Everything has been dead where it stood without taking another step. Planning on making this my round for Nilgai, as well.

@@yellowhammeroutdoors5516 I’ve always archery hunted Ga whitetail and was looking at this round as a candidate but wondering if it’s too much. Most shots would be within 200 yards.

When I first built mine, I wondered the same thing but I think it’s a perfect round for GA Whitetail. I hunt quite a bit in Laurens County, south of Macon, and it’s my favorite woods rifle. Can shoot through brush if I need to and you can get away with an 18-20” barrel making it very handy in the woods.

@@yellowhammeroutdoors5516 I appreciate the help. I saw a 12.5” chassis pistol that really sparked my interest in the round.

I think that’d be great for inside 200 yards.

I went with a 20” barrel.

I am using Lee dies. They work great, I have a full length sizing die and the seating die.

I ended up going with a 20” barrel. That was a good length for velocity trade off while still having something that would be very handy, especially with a can attached.

@@yellowhammeroutdoors5516 where are you pulling your load data from I used the load data from the raptor website and got pressure signs even at the minimum charge.

I’m having to work up loads myself comparing what’s on the Raptor website with known data for loads like .358 Winchester. What powders are you using? I haven’t had any blown primers or hard bolts yet.

@@yellowhammeroutdoors5516 I was using 1200-r and 235grn speer. But I'm thinking of trying some h4895. I've never worked up loads from scratch so I'm still reading up on it

I like H4895 powder. For H4895, you could start at about 42 grains and work your way up to about 46.5 grains. Something else to keep on hand is a powder burn rate chart to compare burn rates for different powders.

Looking to get some better editing software. Thanks for the feedback.