Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Ask The Gunwriters How come Ruger 77`s get no respect????

Those are beautiful GF1!! I like your style, can't get much better than that. Since you boys are showing pics, I'll whip out a few:

Most recent purchase is a round top tang safety 270 win that shoots pretty good (haven't had the time to work up a load for it yet):



My other tang safety (300 win mag):


It doesn't shoot too bad for a crappy tanger barrel:


My elk slayer (mkII 338 win mag):
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It shoots "allright" all the time:
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bsa1917hunter, too bad your old Rugers don't shoot either...

Nice rifles...keepers!

Yeah, that's my bad

Some beautiful rifles there boy`s,I still like Rugers.
BSA: I have not touched the bedding I am not sure what to do with it.
PJ Paul. It is a 243. I have some 85 & 90 gr. Nosler That I am going to try in it. I was shooting heavier rounds in it they were the ones giving me the trouble. I do have the tools to file down the end cap I have to take a close look at how the barrel & stock seats in it.

FYI, here's a good piece by northern dave on bedding a Model 77:

https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbth...14/DIY_bedding_M77_pic_heavy#Post3003214

There's a reason that thread is a sticky. Excellent info by Northern dave. VERY good read.....I'm a firm believer in bedding rugers and those of you that know me know I'm not bs'n you.....They gotta be bedded!!!!

Some of mine, they all shoot well.

Partsman,

nice rifles. Albeit, dear friend, I see, you are a disciple of a the "JeffO School of Scope Mounting", as evidenced by rifle No. 3 on the bottom, so it is no denying it.

;-)

Mine ain't much to look at but has made a fine beanfield rifle. Very accurate and tough as nails.

.264WM
Krieger barrel
McMillan stock
Timney trigger
S&B 3-12X50 Zenith scope



Terry

Thats a nice one!!!

Bill wasn't half bad at caving into the anti gunners either.

I'm a big fan of Ruger 77's and have 2 now, one tang safety (270) and one mkII in 6mm Rem. I love the mkII but after extensive work by a talented smith I still can't get it to do true controlled round feeding very time. About 1 in 8 times the cartridge will jump ahead of the extractor. The cartridge still chambers fine, but I'd rather it work the same each time. Anybody else have such a problem? I've heard long actions aren't as prone to this.

I had one of the early 90s stainless, boat paddle stock, push feed M77 MkIIs that wasn't relieved at the bottom of the bolt face as the newer ones are. It fed well enough though. It went back to Ruger when it wouldn't eject out of the box. After the claw extractor was replaced by Ruger, it extracted properly. It never was a very accurate rifle. Federal GMM 168gr BTHP .308 went into about 2" at 100yds. My best reloads did about 1.5" at the same distance. Playing with action screw tension and stock clearance were frustratingly ineffective. I finally sold it to a buddy who enjoys it more than I did. I have a few other Rugers, but that limited experience soured me on their bolt rifles.

I'm with you on that.

The mkII's were never push feed's. They were all CRF....

I had the exact same thing with a MKII 30/06, mine would jam when loading from the mag. I had my gunsmith mill off the bottom of the bolt and it functions great now.

You can see in the picture the piece that was left on I guess? The 7RM was a true CRF and the 30/06 had the push feed CR extraction feature I guess??? The 30/06 was bought new in 1992 and the 7RM was in 1995 or 1996.

For the uninitiated, which 77 tang models came with fixed sights, and wasn't there a model with fixed sights that would also accept Weaver-style bases?

At what point or model, did true CRF come to life in the 77?

Inquiring minds would like to know . . . .

In 1991 with the MKII:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruger_M77

Yes, they started out as round tops that were drilled and tapped like other rifles. My 270 is that way and it takes rem 700 bases...

Ruger m77 round top magnum (M77ST with open sights) chambered in 270 win:

When it comes to 77's and respect I think back to a couple members quote.

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 the trigger, but then a lot of factory rifles do.

The big problem I've seen with some of the tang-safety rifles is very long throats in some older chamberings, such as 7x57."

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."

Well I've put a fourth one on layaway down at the LGS, serial # dates it 1977, it'll be my first 30-06.
They've got respect in my safe!