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Take a look at what they sell regularly for on AfricaHunting.com. Mine is very accurate with 300gr swift a-frames. If you buy it and decide not to keep it I think you could easily get your money back and then some, especially with the scope.

Maybe, but well worth it, as then you’ll have a perfect DGR. The factory shipped rifle is good as is and hard to beat, with the changes I described, even with a ‘relatively high-dollar’ custom. Except for the stock modification - in my case done by R J Renner - the rest of the mods are the type that can be done by a user adept at the metal work involved.

My specimen is a 1993 Gen 1, with a now 23” barrel done at reboring, started out as a 416 Rigby, with a muzzle brake installed by the prior owner. That’s a piece of gear I despise and couldn’t wait to expunge!

To each his own, as a custom DGR has its own appeal. But in today’s world IMHO you can’t get a factory DGR that’s closer to a classic than these M-77 RSMs. YMMV

Building a custom rifle is an attempt to build something perfect. It doesn't always turn out that way.So many things can go wrong and in the end the factory rifle you want to modify was a better rifle than your custom.

I’d say it’s worth 2000-2500.

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I certainly wouldn't use a Ruger 77 action as the basis for a custom.
Bill Ruger did some odd things and the M77 recoil lug was one of them.
R700 top, M77 bottom

MM does vary and my customized Win M70 416 Rem is perfection to me at 9 1/2# all in, scoped and loaded. McM stock, Wisner front and rear sights, Burris 1.75-5 Signature Safari scope, Feldcamp fluted barrel, bedding and ceracoat. Handles like a dream and is Zimbabwe proven.

Why heck, for a real custom job put one of them thar
Remington M700 washer recoil lugs on the
Ruger M77 Hawkeye.
Then you will have two recoil lugs,
one integral to action
and one that is removable,
and all of that in a CRF rifle.
Win, win.

great price. GET IT>

This is right. Don’t think about it twice. Just buy it!!

Ruger 77's have really gone up in price lately. Don't think you can lose on it.

I want one. MTG

I shot this 4 shot group offhand at 35yds with my Ruger Lott this afternoon using cast bullets.
I am getting ready in case I need to stop a charge-lol.

So, did ya buy it yet?

Well I called the shop a week after I saw it and it was sold. Probably best for me but thanks for all the encouragement.

I have a 2010 built rifle in 375 H&H and they are a LOT of gun for the money. The sight ramp is machined with the barrel along with with a superposed bottom bridge between the receiver lug and front barrel recoil lug. Also, Ruger recommends 90 Ft Lbs on that barrel lug machine bolt. Mine was Magnaported and is more pleasant than a 30-06 with 180's at 2800 fps. Mine weighs at about 9.5 lbs with sights. Has been to Africa 3 times. Great rifle.
Darrel Wick

Great rifles, wish you would have bought it, it would be at least two grand alone to have a 'Smith turn a barrel out with integral rib like those, bought a 416 Rigby for 1500 cash out the door in '94, poured over every magazine and book i could read about Africa, went through 500 sticks of Norma brass walking and shooting till i torched the throat, 400gr X, then 350 and 400gr TSX at 2650-2750 fps over imr-4350 will do that.

'Smith told me about throat, i wasn't going to part with the rifle because i liked the barrel and quarter rib so much, i sent rifle to Delta Gun Shop/Clearwater Reboring, they made me a hell of a 505 Gibbs, still have it, and no danger of torching the throat on that beast.

The RSMs are great rifles for reboring to larger calibers. My 416 Rigby is now a 450 Rigby.

Like it much better so chambered. It was designed and built for a larger caliber IMO, as the weight and balance calls for a true heavy cartridge DGR.

Yes Sir plenty barrel steel to work with in those rifles, i bet your 450 Rigby is a great rifle to carry and shoot, my RSM as a 505 gibbs is about perfect, i had an original 1920's Britich Gibbs rifle, it was indeed to nice to hunt/shoot with, just couldn't do it, a guy came along with a wad of cash and took it, last i heard it was living in a vault in Montana ; ]