Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Long Range Hunting Who said Rugers don't shoot?

The old tang safety rifles had match barrels that would put most Kriegers to shame. Simply remove the pressure point in the barrel channel, glass bed the action and load some Sierras and you will be astounded.

Here are two groups I shot at 350 yards yesterday. Sierra GK 165 HPBT from my 80s 30-06 M77 tang safety.





Proof that Rugers shoot!

Well I'm astounded,

April fools !!!

Are those powder marks I see?

I'm to ashamed to post pics of my 2 Hawkeye's groups..... Now the one MK II in 204 Ruger with its short flyweight barrel? It drives nails with 35r Berger HP's. I sold my 338RCM after Trigger job, MPI Stock, and a Re-crown. got her down to a very reliable 2-2.25MOA bench shooter. That and a SS/LAM 25-06 that shoots OK kinda has just turned me OFF to Ruger.

People who say Rugers won't shoot evidently don't own any....

or they are lousy shots... even with other brands of rifles...

It was Huntsman .22 what said it.....

Now that is funny....

YEP...

I'll 2nd that...

I'll 3rd it. I have never been better than a 5/8ths Shooter from the Bench with any caliber or any of my guns. I have a hard time shooting much better than MOA at 400yds with them also. But I can consistantly make hits on one gallon milk jugs(water filled) to about ~450-475 from feild positions.

I have had some that would really shoot and some that were horrible..

A few years back I was takinga .338WM and .30-06 elk hunting. Both were Ruger MKII rifles with factory barrels. On my last trip to the range I checked zero at 100, then moved to the 600 yard range where I put up some clay pigeons. With a total of 5 shots I managed to break a clay with both rifles. Two shots with one, three with the other.

Many times I've posted photos of 100-yard targets I've shot with my Ruger rifles, including M77, MKII, MKII VT and Hawkeye variants. I won't bother here other than to say many showed 2- and 3-shots touching. My .257 Roberts did 3 (75g V-MAX) that went .232" center-to-center and my 7mm RM did 3 (160g North Fork SS) in .262" My .22-250 VT has done 4 (40g VMAX or BT, I forget which) in .5" at 200. The only Ruger I've had that wouldn't shoot was an American in .30-06.

All my Rugers have received homespun trigger jobs, except the VT, which came with a 2-stage target trigger. All have also bee floated if they didn't come that way.

I bought a used 1999 Ruger #1V 223 from CA off the internet in 2007 for $500 + $47 shipping and FFL.

I cleaned out the copper and took it to the range with some ground squirrel handloads, 15 gr Blue dot 35 gr Vmax, old once fired brass.

This is how the target looked at 100 yards.

Well I don't doubt you did shoot those groups at 350, however they must nearly be quite a fluke or else you have one of the most accurate rifles on the planet!

In any case you'd have to be well pleased.

6 power scope, too..

What does it do with hunting bullets?

These were hunting bullets, 300WM/180g TSX. First shot from a cleaned/oiled bore. Ruger MKII boat paddle.


So were these, 7mm RM/140g North Fork SS. 10 shots total, 2 each at 0.5g increments of IMR7828SSC, Gusting 40+mph crosswinds. 1982 Ruger M77. Same rifle shot a .262" 3-shot group with North Fork 160g SS.


Varmints, anyone? 1984 Ruger M77, .257 Roberts/75g V-MAX.


Ruger MKII cobbled together from parts in 2010, boat paddle stock. After marking the first two shots I put a third in the group. 225g Hornady SST. It does the same thing with 225g Nosler AccuBond.


.257 Roberts again, this time wiht 115g TSX. Shots 1-2 were with scope zeroed for 75g V-MAX, shots 3-4 after a scope adjust.


1993 Ruger #1 .280Rem with 120g TTSX and 140g TTSX. sold the rifle because it was too nice to hunt with. Bought a synthetic-stocked Ruger Hawkeye i .280 Rem to replace it.

Here's one I've never shown before, the last scope-check for the Ruger Hawkeye .30-06 I gave to my latest son-in-law as a wedding present. It has a synthetic stock and a 20" barrel. The loads were white box 150g Winchester Power Point, nothing special. (Shots 1-2 were on a different target, these were after a scope adjust.)


No complaints with any of the Ruger M77/MKII/Hawkeye rifles i've worked with.