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What type of accuracy are you getting out of your ruger. I have a tikka t3 that i get .5 inch groups with hand loads. im thinking about getting one in 338. what type of groups are you getting with your ruger?

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In the last 5-6 years I bought 5 Rugers. All shot 1 to 1 1/4� at a 100 yards out of the box with factory ammunition. With hand loads, they were MOA or less. After trigger jobs, they were down in the .5's when I'm having a good day.

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Ruger M77 .257 Roberts, mfg. 1989, 3 shots, 100 yards
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Ruger M77 7mm RM, mfg. 1982, 10 shots in 40mph winds, 100 yards
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Ruger M77 MKII .300 WM, mfg. 2003, 5 shots @ 100 yards, first shot from clean bore
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Ruger M77 .30-06, mfg. 1984, 2 shot scope check, 100 yards
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Last weekend or the weekend before I was shooting clay pigeons at 600 yards with my 7mm RM (see above). I had never shot it past 500 yards and took only 3 shots but nailed a bird on the last shot.

All my Rugers are free floated and I've polished up the triggers. Other than that they are factory.

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Oh, by the way all of mine are wood stocked.

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1 laminate (heavy barrel .22-250 VT), 3 walnut, one "canoe paddle".

The "canoe paddle" was purchased for a song, NIB, because it wasn't very popular. I love it.



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No, I'm not a Ruger bigot - just an unabashed fan of their revolvers, M77's and #1's.

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I'm glad you guy's are having good luck with Ruger accuracy cause after several tries I didn't have any........................547.

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Out of the box my M77 in 25.06 shot 1.25" groups with 117gn factory loads. Can't wait to see what it will do after getting some work done on that trigger. Do they really have to make them that heavy??

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Like any factory rifle, most benefit from glass bedding. My circa 1981 RS .308 Win shoots 5/8" @100y with factory loads it likes.


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My M77 Mk II in 280 shoots well under an inch at 100 yards consistantly when I do my part.


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I have a pair of Ruger 77 Mark II's that will average 1/2" for 3 shot groups with their favorite loads. One is a 243 that it's best five shot group has been 1/2" and the other is a 6mm and the best five shot group for that rifle has been 3/8". That said both rifles will keep five shot groups right around 3/4" to 7/8" with their favorite loads as long as I do my part.


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My All Weather Mark II shoots my handloads like this and upward to .6 typically when I do my part. Factory goes about an inch with the cheap stuff.
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i just hunt, and never sit down just to shoot groups. however, my mk2 wood/blue 30-06 does everything i ask out to 300-350 yards. right after i got it (several years ago) i zeroed it with 180gr partitions 3" high at 100. every season since then, a couple weeks before the season opener, i shoot a fouling shot or 2 then shoot one final round to ensure it is still 3" high. i may have had to make a scope adjustment, but if i did, i don't remember doing so.

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I was back at the range today and took another three shots at a 600 yard clay pigeon with my 7mm RM. I thought I hit it on the third shot but later discovered I had hit just under and flipped it over and several feet away.

Crappy Rugers! wink



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A good .30-06 is a 99% solution.
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My 2005 vintage .30-06 Springfield will shoot as good as I can muster. It's as accurate as I've seen a rifle, also without a modification from the factory. Also, have a buddy with an early MkII .270 Win that is spooky accurate.

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Currently have 6 blue/walnut tang safety rifles in 5 calibers.
22/250, 257 Roberts (2), 270 Win, 7x57 and 35 Whelen. Triggers were worked on except for one. No free floated barrels just tinkered with front screw. Very happy with their out of the box accuracy and with reloads achieved excellent hunting rifle accuracy and the 22/250V heavy barrel shoots .5 for me and under that when my son shoots it.

The 257 Roberts with 75gr Hornady V-Max groups not to far off from the 22/250.

Paper groups always look good and I file them all but these rifles are loaded for consistient cold barrel POI.


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Best group to date was .113 3 shot @100yds- with a witness.
22-250 tang. Trigger has been worked and Les Bauska trued the action.


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I've had two 25-06's that were incredible shooters.

I also had a 7RM that at best would shoot 4" and bigger at 100 yds. I guess someone has to get the lemon. -grin

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My MkII .30-06 is new, only shot two brands of factory ammo through it so far, but it gets 1-1/2" groups at 100 yds. That does the job for me, but I intend to play with some handloads and see if I can improve it.

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My only Ruger rifle is a 7mm RM that I purchased in August of '08. First 3 shot group after sighting in with factory loaded Hornady 162g BTSP was a 0.822" group.

Unfortunately, my rifle is one finicky sun of a gun. My first batch of handloads (Hornady Interbond) averaged 2.66", the best group being 1.5" but at less than 30-06 velocities. Ruger mentions in their owners manual that if an unmodified rifle shoots factory ammo very poorly they may accept a return. I decided to try other factory loads. The Winchester 150g Super-X 5 shot group averaged 4.3". The Federal Power-shok 175g and Super-X 175g averaged somewhere near the same. I tried a 5 shot group again with the Hornady 162g BTSP and got a respectable 1.4".

I thought about contacting Ruger but I know they don't have any accuracy guarantee. I figured since it was shooting less than 1.5" with at least one factory load they probably wouldn't do anything about it. I probably should have contacted them anyway just to see.

I was able to get a Sierra GameKing handload with RL-22 to do 1.1" 5-shot groups regularly but then I decided to void the warranty. grin I had a local 'smith free float the barrel, bed the action, and take 2 lbs of pull off the trigger. The trigger was actually very crisp but came in at 4.75 lbs.

Unfortunately, I haven't had a lot of time to see how it shoots since the work was done on it. It required a re-zero but then still shot the same Sierra load into 1.1" (which is probably limited more by the shooter than by the gun or load).

I plan to try out some new loads when it warms up a bit and am quite hopeful she'll now shoot. I love the gun, I just wish it wasn't so finicky!


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Azar, I for one would like to know the results from having the gun worked on.


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