Please School me on Ruger M77s!

Hmmm, this M77 is starting to sound like it isn't the rifle for me. Seems like my options are fairly limited to find a stainless rifle with wood on it for around the 1K mark.

How's resale on the M-77 line? I might buy one to try out and sell if I don't like it.
 
$500 and $600 naked, more if there are some decent toys attached to it.

If there were two identical rifles and one being a Mauser 98 and the other
the Ruger 77, I would opt for the Mauser 98.

Just my taste buds on these two.
 
I own a MKII in 350 Rem Magnum and found the same problem identified by 9.3mauser.

I got the rifle mail order, and would never have bought it had I the chance to try it before purchase. It had a shockingly bad action that would often bind up when cycling. Ruger quality control must be a gaggle of drunken hillbillies.

On the other hand, I did smooth the action out a bit through continually cycling dummy rounds. It does not bind anymore, though it is terribly clunky. Accuracy is astonishing good. The first two shots of every three round group clover leafed. The third shot was about 1/2 an inch out of the group. And I am a lousy shot.

I decided to keep it because it is a hard hitting rifle, good for killing anything in North America. I think it cost me around $750.00 dollars. It is hard to be pissed off with a rifle that cheap that does its job.
 
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Ruger Model 77's....

Personally, I've had good luck with them.

First one was a tangsafety in .300 Win Mag that would shoot clover leaf 3 shot groups at 100 yards with 70 gr IMR 4350 behind 180 gr JSP's.

Second one was a NIB MkII in 6.5x55mm purchased at Lever Arms circa 1993. She was a real shooter right out of the box, too.

Sadly, don't have either of the above anymore, though.

Currently, have a tangsafety model, blued with walnut stock in 7x57mm purchased off the EE here ~ 10 years ago. A keeper.

And a MkII stainless, synthetic in 7.62 x 39mm. Also, a keeper.

And just picked up another tangsafety, blued walnut stock, in .243 Win. Haven't shot 'er yet but hopeful she'll be like the others.

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I have two of them, both LH Hawkeyes one in 7mm-08 and other in 35Whelen both parkerized and coated in black flat KG Gun-Kote. Those are more accurate than they need to be inside 300m (my personal limit for humane and responsible animal harvest) and excell in reliability. 20+ years ago I had RH tang safety 7-57 and that thing was a laser shooting .5 moa or better if I did my part. No problem with any of those.
 
I was getting 2 in. groups today @ 200 yds with my new hog, 77 hawkeye all weather 338 wm.Thats shooting off the quad with a hangover.
 
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