Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Ask The Gunwriters About the Ruger M77 Lightweight 20"...

My 257 tanger UL balances well and is not "butt heavy" at all. Now that it shoots acceptably with 120 grain bullets I will put off rebarreling it to 7x57. I already have a lighter 7-08 (second favorite deer rifle) and a heavier 7x57 on a Mauser action. Hopefully this afternoon the 120 gr. Speer BTSP will be tested on a fat doe.

interesting... i had an M77 Mk II in 7x57 that i gave to my son. i still have lots of brass and dies. if i were to acquire the M77 ultralight 30-06 and rebarrel to 7x57, what barrel specs would you recommend? i would be real tempted to set it up to run 150 grain BTs

Short of a custom Mauser with all the trimmings, this is about all I would want in a hunting rifle. Well done.

X2, very nice. A semi-lightweight done right. My next Fwt re-barrel will wear a 23” tube. Just about right IMO.

Karnis... man I wish I could find Carlos to slim down some stocks for me.

Nice RL!

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I have an RL in 257 Roberts wish the barrel was 2" longer. It's the best Roberts I've ever had. It has the 3" mag box and a guy can seat the bullets out where they belong. Original owner didn't like the factory trigger and put in a Timney. 100 gr Hornady SP and H4350 at 3000fps shoots good groups. Probably work up a 100 gr NPT load when I run out of Hornady's but they are superb, one weekend 10 years back I had a pile of antelope doe tags and a landowner who needed them thinned, shot 5 in 2 days 100 gr Hornadys and 1 shot apiece 125 -300 yds. MB

I have a couple of the Ultralights in .250 Savage and .308. I bought another a year ago in .257 Roberts after keeping an eye out for about 10 years. There's not that many over here in Aus. It was in perfect condition on the outside but the barrel had patches of corrosion in it and shot bad. I ended up putting on a 23 inch Maddco barrel chambered for the .257 Roberts AI.

How much work was required on the barrel channel on the RL stock to get the 22" barrel to fit?? TIA.

I have the SS version in .223. One of my favorite rifles. It ends up weighing almost exacly what my Model 70 Featherweights do. Certainly not very lightweight though.

I have been looking for a .270 in one (I have never owned a .270) as a fun change.

I was sorry to see them deemphasize the SS Hawkeyes. I believe they did so due to a changing market. I also believe they misread the market.

A really LW one in '06 would be a great main rifle for heavy cover areas. Especially if it came with iron sights. I am fooling with an 18.7" barreled SS GSR at the moment to do that job.

How much work was required on the barrel channel on the RL stock to get the 22" barrel to fit?? TIA.
Not a lot, but that is fairly easy to do.
But for some reason it seems that installing Timneys in tangers is a bit of a pain and I always seem
to end up removing wood that was not necessary.

I have two of the RLs (.250 Sav and .308) and bought a third in 2018 in .257 Roberts online. It was pristine on the outside but the bore was eroded in patches along the entire length. My gunsmith had a .257 AI reamer so I ended up putting a 23 inch standard Ruger sporter barrel on. Due to the shorter stock, the 23 inch barrel looks like it's 26 inches. It is a tad muzzle heavy but in the field I don't notice it.

I've had the two RLs for about 20 years and have never been handicapped in the field by the light barrel. The .308 was my pig gun for a few years and I shot lots of pigs with it. I just aimed and shot and never noticed the light barrel. It never impacted my shooting at all. I really liked the slim fore end of the Ultalight stock.

Oops, I forgot I had already replied to this thread. I thought it was a new one. lol. It's the middle of the night and I'm half asleep at the computer.