.....and the Ruger Hawkeye saga continues

Thats what my 06 ( a M77 MkII) shoots shooting winchester accubond CT's. That on paper is good enough for hunting. Rugers are not high precsison rifles, they are hunting rifles.

I can hit a steel ram at 200 yards every shot with mine and im like stanway, I havent done anything with mine.


Go ahead and spend more money on it. But I dont think you will be putting bullet through a bullet whole with a Ruger (as thats not what they are intended for), if you wanted that much accuracy then you shoulda bought a compition rifle.
 
lcpaintballer said:
Thats what my 06 ( a M77 MkII) shoots shooting winchester accubond CT's. That on paper is good enough for hunting. Rugers are not high precsison rifles, they are hunting rifles.

I can hit a steel ram at 200 yards every shot with mine and im like stanway, I havent done anything with mine.


Go ahead and spend more money on it. But I dont think you will be putting bullet through a bullet whole with a Ruger (as thats not what they are intended for), if you wanted that much accuracy then you shoulda bought a compition rifle.
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I agree generally that hunting rifles are not target rifles, but this rifle in question is not just shooting big groups, it consistently places its first shot away from teh next four, which group fairly well
 
I had an older Ruger Tang Safety 77R in 30-06 that would (now get this!) shoot the first 165 grainer out of a cold barrel about 1½" High, then the next 4 would all cluster into a nice sub-moa group. With 150's and 180's, the phenomenon did not exist...figure that one out. I tried several things, including a number of powders/bullets, but that 165 was always a bit high on that first shot. Finally unloaded it out of frustration (6 weeks worth) Guy that bought it played some more and then settled on shooting 150's. Regards, Eagleye.
 
Take the middle action screw right out or loosen it so it is not doing anything. That screw will flex the action downwards in the middle on an unbedded Ruger almost every time.

Another thing is rugers can be very sensive about how the action screws are tightend. The angled front screw has a tendancy to lift the back end up if you tighten it too much before doing the tang screw. I have had a 270 and 7mm that where very sensitive and needed to be tightened up evenly front and back or they shot ####ty. Glass bedding helped but I had to re-glass bed the 270 five times to get it working realy good, the 7mm still needed to be tighened "specal" (super crazy tight on all 3 screws) to work well.
 
Republic of Alberta said:
Take the middle action screw right out or loosen it so it is not doing anything. That screw will flex the action downwards in the middle on an unbedded Ruger almost every time.

Another thing is rugers can be very sensive about how the action screws are tightend. The angled front screw has a tendancy to lift the back end up if you tighten it too much before doing the tang screw. I have had a 270 and 7mm that where very sensitive and needed to be tightened up evenly front and back or they shot s**tty. Glass bedding helped but I had to re-glass bed the 270 five times to get it working realy good, the 7mm still needed to be tighened "specal" (super crazy tight on all 3 screws) to work well.
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Bingo ! :cool:
I just started to type out my very similar experiences with my 77 338 Mag.....it was very fussy about having the action screws tightened up evenly...I actually got a torque bit to fit my wrench so I could dup the tightness.
It shot very well unbedded.....but was floated and trigger done.
 
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