The parameters for this choice were artfully crafted from my esoteric ballistic insight and arcane long range shooting knowledge.

Actually not. The choice was derived from a series of coincidences.

I was already in possession of a Forster Micrometer 375 RUM bullet seater. It was a sale item bought a few months earlier, marked down to a stupidly low price being the last item in stock. At the time, I thought it would be cool just to have.

I had 247 grain monolithics on the shelf that I had bought with intent to use in my 375 H&H, but they were VLD target profile and therefore unsuitable.

I had a custom fiberglass stock from Armtec that I had tried and discarded from another rifle, sitting in the corner.

I had a Vixen Artes scope left over from another project, lying in it's box begging to be used somewhere.

A local supplier had the last [ at the time ] Remington Long action available in stock, with the Ultramag bolt face.

A highly regarded local barrel manufacturer, Accugun, was able to make the barrel, and had the blank in stock.

There was a batch of 200 Norma 7mm RUM brass on clearance sale at the time from an online supplier.

Peregrine bullets manufactures VLD profile monolithics for long range target shooting, in .375 caliber.

I considered that a sufficiently auspicious confluence of events to proceed to build a target rifle in 375 RUM.