Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Ask The Gunwriters How come Ruger 77`s get no respect????

and you won't.ever....

No issues here, even with the tangsters. Elk, moose, nilgai, black bear, deer, hogs...

My first CF rifle was a 77, and I'm still partial to them. The new Hawkeyes are great rifles.

Some don't like the idea of investment cast receivers but when pressed - no one seems to be able to procure a picture of a blown up Ruger action.

Ya' ever try drilling a Ruger investment cast part? My Ruger 22 Hornet still has a snapped off tap in its trigger from my attempt at installing an overtravel stop screw ten years ago. No worries here.

Jack O'Connor spoke well of them, Bill Ruger was a great gun designer and the things are American. I have had a lot of rifles and the Ruger stacked up well with any of them.

When you use the wrong drill bits that's what happens.
Bits are available for DHT 1903 Springfields, they'll go through any part on a Ruger.

it's rare that i find a factory stocked rifle that fit's me as well as my old tang safety ruger .243 did...
thinking perception and physical differences make all the difference...

the mk II rugers stock had too tight a radius on the pistol grip...

the hawkeye is better'n the mkII but still not the great stock of the tang safety...

you'ns mileage may vary...

I think you talk out your azz too jwall. They are a pos, plain and simple. I've personally experienced them firing on their own (due to tight azz chambers, faulty triggers and safties), not extracting (many [bleep] times), luckilly I've never had a bolt handle fall off or I would have slung a rifle further than you could imagine....Speaking of that, you've got one hell of a good imagination if you think the Ruger 77's arn't capable of being extremely accurate and fully functional and tough as nails. One of the best utilitarian rifles ever made....

They do not? News to me.

I think that angled front action screw has a lot of folks bewildered about the whole action. I've had three M77Rs and had no issues with any of the three, but doing a glass-job, if wanted or needed, spooks some people. I never needed to glass mine, they all shot "minute of deer" and at that time, that was all I cared about.

Any goob can smith a Remington (and a lot of them do), but the Ruger makes that tougher to accomplish.

I like the older tang-safety models better than the new ones, the safety is too small for me to manipulate easily.

+ 1 on the tang safety.

I think that the Ruger is easier to bed than a Remington, no need to worry about taping lugs for clearance. There are a lot of folks, some of them smiths who have beliefs about the Ruger and I suspect that they really haven't worked on them much.

One issue with the Ruger is that the angled screw makes some stock work challenging. If the distance between the action and the floorplate changes, the angled screw means that the floor plate will be too tight or too loose.

I drive Ford trucks and shoot tang safety M 77s, but it wasn't always that way.

No wrong bit used... Ever work a Ruger?

I've had 4 tang safety 77's. 3 were accurate, 1 was not. My IKM77Mk II in .30-06 has shot a good number of 1/2" 3-shot groups. I did this again last Saturday with 180 gr partitions and Ramshot Hunter.

Great picture and roedeer . Where were you hunting? They are my favorite game to hunt.

First of all, I have no reason to lie. No one is paying me from Remington.

Second, I never said 77s weren't accurate or functional.

Basically I said I don't care them, they're not my cup of tea.

You got my take ALL WRONG.

I have owned 3, 2 tang safety and an MKII. The 22-250 was the most accurate rifle I have owned and I foolishly sold it. My 250 Sav. is Ok, certainly good for its intended purpose. My 7x57 (MKII) had some issues, was sent back to Ruger, fixed in very short order, and turned out to be very accurate. I gave that to my nephew.

My son's 7x57, also a MKII, is very accuarte and a nice rifle.

I've had a coupla LH M77's and they just don't elicit any passion in me.
Firstly I enjoy tinkering with my rifles. Ruger doesn't make that as easy to do as on say a 700 or a Savage.
Secondly I dislike the side swing safety. All the disadvantages of M70 safety with none of the advantages. Did they make any tang safety LH 77's? I like tang safeties.
Thirdly the LH rifles are mostly chambered in pedestrian (albeit effective) cartridges. I just can't find any love in me for the .308, the .30-06, or 22" tubed .270's. And as I said in my first post here, rebarreling isn't as easy on a 77. Doable of course but not as easy as others. If Ruger put out a 24" .270 I'd take a close look.
Fourth, I dislike the fixed positioning of the scope rings and the high price of replacement rings for the 77. Do they make aluminum rings for the 77?
Fifth, I dislike laminated stocks and that seems to be all they offered on their latest run of LH SS 77's.
Sixth, I dislike their weight. Their lightweight rifles have short tubes which I hate even more. No EDGE available for them either IIRC.

They do go reasonably cheaply however and I may have to get another one someday if I run across a killer deal.

Had 3 or 4 tangs and MKIIs go thru my buddy and I and we've been blessed as they all shot crazy good. A tang 358 shot groups at 200 yds that were unreal, sold it naturally.