old ruger m77 ?
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RePete
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Allot of guys don't like the fact that the action's die cast instead of machined.
Others don't like the recoil lug arrangement. (hard to bed properly)
Not saying it's fact, just parroting what I've read/heard.
I can say though that when I went to pick up a Ruger I'd dropped off for a bedding job with a local smith he gave me and that !@#$%^&* recoil lug a good cussing.
Others don't like the recoil lug arrangement. (hard to bed properly)
Not saying it's fact, just parroting what I've read/heard.
I can say though that when I went to pick up a Ruger I'd dropped off for a bedding job with a local smith he gave me and that !@#$%^&* recoil lug a good cussing.
2muchgun
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Originally Posted By: RePeteAllot of guys don't like the fact that the action's die cast instead of machined.
Others don't like the recoil lug arrangement. (hard to bed properly)
I think that those that don't like investment casting really don't know what it is. They think of your ""typical" casting, and it ain't that.
As for the recoil lug being a PITA to bed: It isn't the lug itself, but the angled front guard screw that runs into it at about 60° that makes it a pain..........
Others don't like the recoil lug arrangement. (hard to bed properly)
I think that those that don't like investment casting really don't know what it is. They think of your ""typical" casting, and it ain't that.
As for the recoil lug being a PITA to bed: It isn't the lug itself, but the angled front guard screw that runs into it at about 60° that makes it a pain..........
RePete
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I watched a show on one of the Hook & Bullet channels that went on a tour through Rugers factory.
They spent a good deal of time showing the casting process including the way they fine tune em with a skillion pound press after casting. I know that machined actions can bend and flex too, but watching them "tweek" them into tolerance made me wonder.
Again, I don't know chit about them, just repeating what I saw.
ETA,,, FWIW Rugers are real popular with the Deer and Elk crowd up here and the local smith (who is excellent) builds allot of rifles on 77 actions. Saw allot of them when I worked at the range and they all shot very well for big game rifles.
They spent a good deal of time showing the casting process including the way they fine tune em with a skillion pound press after casting. I know that machined actions can bend and flex too, but watching them "tweek" them into tolerance made me wonder.
Again, I don't know chit about them, just repeating what I saw.
ETA,,, FWIW Rugers are real popular with the Deer and Elk crowd up here and the local smith (who is excellent) builds allot of rifles on 77 actions. Saw allot of them when I worked at the range and they all shot very well for big game rifles.
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crapshoot
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Originally Posted By: RePeteI watched a show on one of the Hook & Bullet channels that went on a tour through Rugers factory.
They spent a good deal of time showing the casting process including the way they fine tune em with a skillion pound press after casting. I know that machined actions can bend and flex too, but watching them "tweek" them into tolerance made me wonder.
Again, I don't know chit about them, just repeating what I saw.
ETA,,, FWIW Rugers are real popular with the Deer and Elk crowd up here and the local smith (who is excellent) builds allot of rifles on 77 actions. Saw allot of them when I worked at the range and they all shot very well for big game rifles.
Yeah, not to bad for a factory rifle with factory barrel with factory ammo. Old tang safety 7MM RM, leupold 3-9 scope and 165 gr nosler partition federal premium ammo. only work done to gun was a trigger job. 3 round @ 100yrds
They spent a good deal of time showing the casting process including the way they fine tune em with a skillion pound press after casting. I know that machined actions can bend and flex too, but watching them "tweek" them into tolerance made me wonder.
Again, I don't know chit about them, just repeating what I saw.
ETA,,, FWIW Rugers are real popular with the Deer and Elk crowd up here and the local smith (who is excellent) builds allot of rifles on 77 actions. Saw allot of them when I worked at the range and they all shot very well for big game rifles.
Yeah, not to bad for a factory rifle with factory barrel with factory ammo. Old tang safety 7MM RM, leupold 3-9 scope and 165 gr nosler partition federal premium ammo. only work done to gun was a trigger job. 3 round @ 100yrds
nastynatesfish
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I got one in 243 win and rebarreled it to a 7-08. Just need to get the sear worked or replace the trigger all together.
Shoots pretty well with 140 noslers
Bottom right was some Winchester factory 140 I was trying to like up with.
Shoots pretty well with 140 noslers
Bottom right was some Winchester factory 140 I was trying to like up with.
DGW
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Found a well used Ruger 77 tang safety in a store several years ago for $210. I would have it rebarreled with an el cheapo Midway A&B heavy contour barrel and have it chambered in 7x57 mauser. Of my 20 plus centerfire rifles, its the rifle I use in our private shooting clubs target competition. Only other thing I did with the Ruger was install the $40ish Rifle Basix trigger sear for a Tang Safety 77 and alter the stock to make it more suitable for shooting from benchrest.
Chuckle, I'm the only one in the competition using a Ruger. While I've never won it, I sure have outshot a lot of gents that wouldn't even think about buying a Ruger.
Chuckle, I'm the only one in the competition using a Ruger. While I've never won it, I sure have outshot a lot of gents that wouldn't even think about buying a Ruger.
From a practical perspective, isn't a "machined" action machined from cast steel?? Cast at the steel plant?? Perhaps rolled into shape?? If so, what's the difference?? I gotta assume (yeah, I know what that gets me) that Ruger has to do some kind of machining after the casting?? Inquiring minds wanna know.
FWIW, I'm a died-in-the-wool Ruger fan, but have never spent $$ on much more than factory rifles to this point (a couple of used, rebarreled guns though), and am currently no kind of "precision" shooter.
FWIW, I'm a died-in-the-wool Ruger fan, but have never spent $$ on much more than factory rifles to this point (a couple of used, rebarreled guns though), and am currently no kind of "precision" shooter.
nastynatesfish
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Thanks scoutseyes. Put it together for my chick that lives in New York
nastynatesfish
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It's an ershaw 3.5 contour 24" SS And a Boyd's pratie hunter in nutmeg. Took alittle fitting but I was fine with it since I was bedding it anyway.