Thread: Any Ruger guru’s about?

I know where a tang safety .25/06 is now...came off forum and is being used to great effect by new owner...adding a DPT suppressor made a world of difference and makes it rather pleasant to shoot now.

The Ruger M77 Mk1 is a superb rifle. Fully adjustable trigger and has tang safety. All came with wooden stock. When properly bedded they shoot like a dream. Sorry guy's to be negative, but the Mk 11 not so much. Manufacturing costs led to a lesser rifle. Ruger had to compete with other prime American brands who were producing cheaper, lesser quality rifles aimed at the same market. The Mk11 trigger is a case in point. It went from fully adjustable to simply not.

The rifle in the first photograph looks great. Although not a Mk1, it will have the same action, less safety and trigger. If I were intent on keeping it, especially with a young fellah in mind, I would install a fully adjustable after market trigger. Good shooting.

Re the mk2 trigger, my 2506 came set at 3.5lbs but the 223 that I got in 95 or 96 was insane and when i got it lightened the guy said it was set at 5kg!
I believe it was around the time one of the manufacturers, I think it was Remington were facing a number of lawsuits from people who had adjusted thier triggers and had accidents.

Yip this trigger is mighty heavy it will certainly be getting attention. The 9.3 stock is a funny one looks more like the weatherby synthetics the older ones

my winchester model 70 came from factory with trigger so heavy....I found deer,dug hole,rammed in a strainer post,wired rifle to post then went and fetched the D7 to hook winch rope onto trigger,reved engine and pulled,rifle would fire just short of stalling point. sometimes the deer would hang about to watch proceedings.....
seriously stupidly heavy...2 minutes with two small spanners...oh alright a 6" cresant and down to 2.5lb

I had one of these as one of my first rifles, might have been the second or third centrefire I owned, can't remember. Mine was 6.5x55. I do remember it was a very nice rifle but super heavy, as in you would pick it up and be surprised how much weight was crammed into the size package you were holding. Don't think it had an adjustable trigger and didn't have tang safety (I hate tang safety's anyhow..) was quite accurate considering those were the days when I just bought S &B off the shelf stuff.

I bought my walnut blued .243 77mk2 new. Had the trigger lightened in upper Hutt straight away, possibly the best feeling trigger of my rifles. No creep and approx 2lb.
I bedded mine which improved the groups and also made sure the mag box was floating and not bound up which helped with reducing flyers. It shoots bloody great now, even before the improvements I shot alot deer in the head with it to 200m.
How you tighten the action screws, especially the middle screw will affect how it shoots on these rugers.

Bring it around if you want me to have a look at it. I might see if there are any obvious issues with it.

Originally Posted by Roarless20

I bought my walnut blued .243 77mk2 new. Had the trigger lightened in upper Hutt straight away, possibly the best feeling trigger of my rifles. No creep and approx 2lb.
I bedded mine which improved the groups and also made sure the mag box was floating and not bound up which helped with reducing flyers. It shoots bloody great now, even before the improvements I shot alot deer in the head with it to 200m.
How you tighten the action screws, especially the middle screw will affect how it shoots on these rugers.

Bring it around if you want me to have a look at it. I might see if there are any obvious issues with it.

I’ve being meaning to get ahold of you knowing you had that .243 I’ve being phoneless for months and now have no contacts and a new number (dedicated the other number for work) I turn it on at 7am about and hour after I leaver reception and turn it off at 5pm about 2 hours befor I get back to reception life’s good on that front . I’ll try PM you my new number now but I’m a little suspicious my PMs are not working at present might need to clear my inbox and sent items

Is this rifle full stainless or blued (might be my eyes but I can't tell from the photos). The Mk2 came in stainless/skeleton or wood/blue but I don't think wood stainless. The powder coating on the alloy floorplate was prone to scratching but the trigger could be made very good by a competent gunsmith. Unfortunately the action length is way to big for 223 sized cartridges so feeding can be a problem with them. Wish I hadn't sold my left hand 270win.

It’s wood stainless the action length Is .308 with a mag box inside for the .223 it seems to feed exceptionally well the actions roughly 15mm longer than a factory loaded 50gn .223 load shorter action than my mates .270 I’ll try get a photo up when I get home

@Shearer that’s a Nosler bt loaded to mag length about 8-10mm shorter than the ejection/loading port

Originally Posted by Kelton

@Shearer that’s a Nosler bt loaded to mag length about 8-10mm shorter than the ejection/loading port

As long as it feeds well, that's fine. I remember coming across a couple in 223 that didn't though.