Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles Ever have a Ruger M77 fail on you on a hunt?

Have a 77 fail? Not from a feeding, ejection standpoint.

Have a 77 instill confidence with regards to accuracy on a long(er) shot? I'll take another brand of rifle, thanks.

I had a Stainless 77 Mark II years ago. It never produced accuracy that I was comfortable with. It went down the road. Boat paddle stock and all.

Have about 55 years of hunting behind me, and I can't remember an arm of any make or model failing.

Looks a lot nicer than the one I started hunting with in '82! Mine still shoots great, though.

Agree.

My Ruger 77 MK II All Weather in 280 Remington kept my family fed for many years. Once, as I stroked the bolt to load, I felt a slowing of the stroke & noticed the S.S. action was so full of ATV trail dust that it was brown. It should have bound up & quit. Instead, it put a trophy Axis on the ground. Once, I left the gun outside in the overnight freezing rain. The action was frozen tight. I carried it to the rear of the ATV and used the exhaust to thaw it out.

Like VaHillbilly said, "bombproof as any rifle ever built". That gun was dropped three times in one weekend & never missed an intended target. It once was launched off the ATV about 12' after the barrel caught the gate post as I was riding thru.

The gun sits prominently in my safe having been decomissioned for more fancy toys.

Damned things don’t work if one leaves the bolt on the cleaning bench. Worthless POS 🙃

Never had one fail, but had a few that wouldn't shoot worth a darn.

Mule Deer:

" I've owned a pile of 77's of all eras. While one barrel truly sucked (a 7x57 with a bore that had numerous loose spots, with the tight spots measuring .287), all the others shot anywhere from acceptably to very well. My acceptable rating is three shots in an inch for big game rifles, and five shots in an inch for varmint rifles, and very well is half that. Most of them required some work on the bedding and trigger, but then a lot of factory rifles do."

Boxer - Big Stick:

"I've Ruger familiarity and accept them for what they are. Light or bullet proof they are not, though curiously enough they are oft maligned by the masses for "accuracy" woe which I've yet to see, though of course I shoot a bit, which tend to tip numerous scales."

i have quite a few 77's. never failed me. the only problem i have ever encountered is they are a bit finicky about the way the shells are positioned in the mag. if not careful they will not feed the 2nd shot. this seems only to be the case on my newest ones.