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To date I've owned 2-220 Swift heavy barrels,2-6mm Remington heavy barrels,1-257 Bob light sporter,1-257 Bob round top, 1-25-06, 1-300 Win Mag and a pair of .338 Win Mags.
I never had a problem with any of them and they shot/still shoot right along with any Remington or Winchester I've ever owned.
I like em.

I bought a used 7 RM tang model and it shot crappy, I had it rebarreled and it shot good!

I suspect some calibers were made by different barrel makers,I have know a few guys that loved their 25-06 tang models and bragged about their accuracy.

But generally have always heard there were good and bad Rugers, I just think it was sub contracting different barrel makers.

BSA - that's about what my first RU77 in .25-06 did (sub MOA- factory standard), but only with neck-sized only reloads. Remington factory ammo went about 5 inches. Rifle had a varmit (77V) barrel on it, with fiddle-back in the stock from fore-end to butt plate.

Prettiest Ruger stock I ever saw!

I never should have sold that thing!

I bought a dog leg bolt 7MM RM in the late 60's or early 70's. It had an out-of-round chamber.I shot a niece Alaskan Moose with it in 71 or 72 with a 160 grain partition and old H4831 while stationed at Eielson AFB.

I later re-barreled it with a new Shilen stainless barrel in the same caliber. It shoot very well in its new Brown Precision stock. I had the action elecroles nickled, and a new Len Brownell bolt handle tigged onto it. I made the bolt handle a little longer for gloves and winter. It still wears the same Leupold 2 x 7 scope I had Premier Reticles convert to click adjustments. Great old rifle. I will always keep it. If I were to live in Alaska it would be redone into a 338Win. Once you look at a full sized Alaskan moose up close that .284 bullet seems very small.

They had the safety in the CORRECT place! Screw control round feed! It locked the bolt, and was hard to knock-off by mistake.

I have had a 1976 manufacture Tang Safety model in 7 mag since 1977 and it has knocked over many deer, elk and a boar - shortest kill 11 yards on a cow elk longest 513 yards on the 270 lb. boar.

It was a good shooting rifle to begin with and my wife surprised me one year for Christmas she had a gunsmith free float the barrel, glass bed the action and re-do the trigger as well as add a custom muzzle brake. Since then it has shot several 3 shot 100 yard groups you could cover with a dime. It is the most accurate hunting rifle I have ever shot and with the 3-9 conquest it is very good on deer vital size plates to 6oo yards on a not too windy day.

It shoots near maximum loads of IMR4350 with 150 grain ballistic tips best but 150 Barnes TTSX is almost as accurate and the same point of impact. When my hunting partners hear that darn loud report they know it is time for the work to start.

I've heard about the mixed bag on barrels but mine is a good one and with the light crisp trigger is a joy to shoot. It is reliable and rugged and has been dragged all over.

I have one in 30-06 that will shoot everything you run through it from 150-200 grains into about a baseball sized group. If it wasn't my Dad's old rifle it would be gone - I've thought a 35 Whelan conversion might be a good idea with it.

My buddy had a 25-06 tang safety and it was very accurate. If I remember right, it had a magnum contour barrel on it. Surprisingly it wasn't too finicky with factory loads and that's what he used in it..

The 270 I had was a real nice round top with factory irons and it was a real sweet heart of a rifle. If I had any sense, I would have kept it, but instead sold it to a great guy here. He PM's me every once in a while to let me know it's still shooting good and that his family members have taken deer with it . I love the fact that some of these rifles we let go, really go to good people here.




Of course, I gave it the usual glass bedding treatment

Nice looking rifle. Too bad it can't shoot!

Thanks for the input everyone, I appreciate it.

I went ahead and bought the rifle, expanding my Ruger collection Now to wait for the license to be approved and then I will load up some combinations and see how it does. I am going to bed and free float right off the start and see how it goes.

I got a Japanese made Bushnell Banner with it but it will be replaced with a Sightron, Zeiss or Minox.

Thanks again.

Pieter

You might be shooting yourself in the foot by freefloating it right off the bat. I'd bed it and then shoot it to see what kind of accuracy it's capable of. I've bedded many a ruger 77 and never touched the barrel channel and they have shot sub moa 3 shot groups. I know CH doesn't glass bed his and he freefloats the barrels and gets good results too, so it's up to you as to which direction you go with it.