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Been too long. It hasn't been out of the safe in many years, so I thought I'd bring it on a range trip. It's got a Bushnell Sportview rimfire scope on it. Four power, I think.

These are nice little rifles. Well made. Nice triggers. They have ten round rotary mags (same as the 10/22).

This one has got to be thirty or more years old.



Here's a 50 yard, five shot, group from the bench. Sub .75" center to center. Without that one flyer to the right, it would have been about a .5" group.



Done with crap ammo, too: Remington Thunderbolt. Imagine what it could do with some good CCI ammo.

Anyone else have one of these?

77/22, and a nice one.

Bolt action. The 10/22 in semi auto is a great little rifle.

You know I would have sworn on a stack of Bibles that I typed 77/22. Thanks. Don't know how I did that. Haven't had a 10/22 in decades.

You’ll find as you grow older, little mysteries like that become more frequent.

Of course, that schitt never happens to mee.

Very nice…..and a pretty good shooter! 👍

About 20 years ago we bought a pair (his & hers), stainless, Teflon, laminate stock….but both had trash for triggers. Soon after our purchase, we bought 2 triggers from David Gentry in Montana! Much better, and ours shoot pretty good as well! memtb

Got one. Bought it in 1985-86? Shot a bazillion sage rats in eastern Oregon, a truck load of grey squirrels, couple pigs and a deer with it…. Looks like it’s been drug behind the truck for 20 miles but it still shoots like a rifle should… Loves CCI green tag, if it can be found but does decent with federal….
Got a 22 WMR that Shot like s h i t until I installed a Lilja barrel… 1” for 5 shots at 100 yds.

I have a 77/22 in .22 WMR, and another in .22 Hornet.

I've really been wanting to round it out with a .22LR, maybe I should get a round tuitt one of these days.

Fun little rifles.

I have the 77-17hmr they are nice. TRH a rifle can be no more accurate than the ammo you put in it and your ability to shoot it well. So why would you call it crappy ammo with half inch groups? Maybe you should have some friends shoot it with that ammo or shoot more groups to see if you just got lucky that time. Doesn't seem to me that would be a hardship or a unnecessary expense to validate it. I did a project once with my CZ m453 bull barrel to find what it liked best. 1/2" 5 shot groups does not define "crap ammo"... mb

I Should have said that Thunderbolt had a rep as crap ammo. It did groups like that over and over. It likes it, I guess.

Glad yours is a shooter!

When they first came out, I got a 77/22Mag.

It didn't like anything ammo wise I fed it. So, like any other rifle I had that was inaccurate, it got tossed into a trade somewhere along the way.

I bought a couple of these not long after they came out in the '80s. Very accurate straight-out-of -the-box. They'll easily outshoot unmodified 10/22s.

great pic.......!

That looks like some serious scopage.

My only Ruger 77/22........

Is actually a 77/17M2 w/Lilja barrel

Great around the house 'removal tool'

Very nice.

I inherited a 1991 mfg with sights twenty some years ago. Looks like that one. Someone had done some work on the trigger and pressure bedded the fore end. The scope's a 2-7x33 Leupold centerfire. Tried several different brands of ammo including some target ammo and it shoots both CCI std velocity HV hps as well or better than anything else I tried. Very nice rifle.

Nice rifle. I bought a Bushnell Sportview 4x32 many years ago. It was in a box of miscellaneous gun stuff at a gunstore. Everything in the box was marked $10.

I recently took the Weaver V3 off of my Marlin 795 and replaced it with the Bushnell. I paid $200 for the Weaver. (quite possibly the worst rifle scope I've ever owned)

I can't help liking the $10 Bushnell Sportview. The glass is surprisingly clear from edge to edge and the adjustments seem to be very close.

I don't fret over any purchase like I do when buying a rifle scope. I've dropped a couple hundred dollars on a few that are junk,..and I've got a couple that I bought for little more than pocket change that function much better than they have any right to.

I just bought a .22 mag, I hope it shoots like yours.