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What's not to like? Spend $750+ for a bolt action "carbine" and another $50 on a decent trigger. Then spend a few more hundred trying to figure out which 44mag ammo works better than Ye Olde 240gr JHP. Once again Ruger has invented a better mousetrap.
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I like it because I could get away from 240 grain jacketed. From the get-go, it has worked good with 300 grain LBT Hardcast. Some of the lever-actions I looked at wouldn't work with that bullet, having a 1/38 twist.
No additional expense was incurred for components. I have several .44 mag revolvers.
I have less than $750, less scope, in mine, but then I have several rifles that you won't get any change out of a $2000 bill, either.
It's what *I* wanted and like.
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I shore needs me one of those!
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I have a close friend back in Indiana who gave up on his 77/44 and sold it. He said he could not get it to shoot.
I am switching to .357 handguns. With some skepticism, I bought a 77/357 as a companion to them. I mounted a 4x scope with parallax set at 50 yards. I sighted it in at 50 yards with American Eagle 158 grain jacketed hollow point ammunition. It put 5 shots in one .5" hole at 50 yards.
I wonder if its the heavier barrel on the .357 Magnum version?
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Would be interesting in a 357 maximum
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Even more interesting in a 454. Action is strong enough
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I doubt that. The .454 has a SAAMI MAP of 65 KPSI. The .44 Mag is 36 KPSI and the .357 is 35 KPSI. The 77/XX action uses a rear locking bolt, a design that is perfectly suitable for current chamberings in the rifle, but supreme strength is not great with that design I think. Of course if you don't care much for your face... My sample of one says that accuracy in the MOA realm is doable with the 77/44, don't see any reason for the .357 model to do worse. 100 yard target w/300 gr. paper patch End of the road:
I am..........disturbed.
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I think people have unrealistic expectations for accuracy in many cases. I am looking at either or bot the 44 and the 357 for my grandchildren for Blacktail deer hunting.
I like removable magazines for safety over tubular magazines, getting in and out of trucks is part and parcel of hunting.
I have a Savage 340 in 30/30 for this application, but I also have 5 grandkids.
If I only get one it will be the 357 as I already have a Marlin 44.
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i stuck a 1.5-5x on my 77/357; have tried several load combinations so far to see if it would shoot well with 170/180gr bullets, but so far it has far preferred 140-weight-class bullets far over the various heavies i have tried. the hornady 140XTP, some old Super-Vel 137 JSP's, and the Barnes 140 XPB all shot pretty well, so did the Winchester 145gr Silvertip factory loads. i like the rifle quite a bit, still need to do something to the heavy factory trigger, but its a pretty useful trail gun for me.
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Or buy a Ruger American for half the price with ten times better trigger and shoots 1" all day long
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Or buy a Ruger American for half the price with ten times better trigger and shoots 1" all day long Yeah - if they made one in 357, that would be great, and might have some relevance to this discussion...
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