I sent an email to Ruger customer service on Friday about the manufacture date of my 77 V 243. They replied. It was manufactured and shipped in April 1973. Through 1973 it was a Douglas barrel. Starting in 1974 it would have been a Wilson barrel. Ruger started hammer forged shot gun barrels in 1977 and the rifles followed shortly after that.
So my 1982 M-77 in .270 Winchester would have been a hammer forged Ruger barrel?
