The Ruger M77 Mark II Rifle .22-250 26in Stainless HB 4rd Laminate

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I recently received a Ruger 77 Mark II in 22-250 in a trade but I prefer 223 Cal. guns, the 250 is the oddball in my gun rack.
The previous owner is a senior and he is down sizing his heavy guns and wanted light plinkers.
It has a blued receiver and a polished stainless 26" bull barrel.
The gun is over 9 lbs and is in a very nice laminate stock.
It has a Simmons Whitetail Expedition 4-12 X 40mm scope dual X crosshairs.
I haven't tried it out yet but will try to get to a range in the next few weeks.
Any info on the gun would be appreciated.
How do they shoot?
What kind of ammo do they like?
The series is 781.
I have had a few 22-250s over the years but the last I shot was over twenty five years ago.
If I don't like it I will take to the Fredericton gun show on Labour Day weekend.
Thanks
Al
 
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Almost sounds like a WTS ad, Al...

The barrel is not original, it is an aftermarket, so there is no predicting accuracy or loads (not that there ever is). I have had several of the Ruger Target rifles and they have all been excellent shooters.
 
albayo said:
The barrel is marked Sturm Ruger, with all the information normally found on them.
The bottom of the fore stock is quite wide (2 1/2") from the mag well out.
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I collect Ruger rifles and have never seen a blued receiver and stainless barrel... so it is likely that someone used a take-off barrel from one rifle and used it on another receiver. It did not come from the factory that way.
 
I just found the Ruger M77 Mark II Serial Number History and that rifle was manufactured in 1993.
So it may have been in another caliber and changed to 22-250 sometime over the past 25 years.
There is a small stamp on the barrel next on the receiver it is circular and inside it appears to be a reversed capital P and an R back to back.
I have seen that stamp before somewhere.
 
albayo said:
I just found the Ruger M77 Mark II Serial Number History and that rifle was manufactured in 1993.
So it may have been in another caliber and changed to 22-250 sometime over the past 25 years.
There is a small stamp on the barrel next on the receiver it is circular and inside it appears to be a reversed capital P and an R back to back.
I have seen that stamp before somewhere.
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That is just a trademark stamp.
 
JJ-65 said:
The first run of laminate MK 11 varmint rifles had blued actions and stainless barrels. I owned a new one back in the day
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If Ruger did a run of blued receiver/stainless barrel Target models, they were never catalogued and I have never seen one in any trading partners collection or on the used market... but it wouldn't shock me to know that they may have... Ruger is notorious for doing small "funky" runs with no data kept on them, when Bill was still running the show, he made up many "one-offs" for friends and gun writers and outfitter/guides. I have one rifle that has zero documentation and Ruger would say that it doesn't exist... and I saw a factory No.1-A in .22 LR in a Texas gunshop 30 years ago and have been called a "liar" over that one by some collectors... ironically, Ruger finally did an "official" run of them this year. So anything is possible.
 
JJ-65 said:
There is one on ARMSLIST dot com now. 22-250
Listing has expired, pics are still up.
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I did a Google image search and came up with five pictures of Blued/stainless rifles in .223 and .22-250, so it would appear that they did a run of them... I could not see the serial number range on these rifles but the date stamp on the images would indicate 1993-1994"ish."

I have had several in "Target Grey" and "Bright Stainless" and two "Police Issue Tactical" in .223 and .308 both All Blued... and I have a MKII on the way in Matte Stainless 6.5 Creedmoor... they all shot very well, so you should give it a go before selling.
 
hoytcanon said:
If Ruger did a run of blued receiver/stainless barrel Target models, they were never catalogued and I have never seen one in any trading partners collection or on the used market... but it wouldn't shock me to know that they may have... Ruger is notorious for doing small "funky" runs with no data kept on them, when Bill was still running the show, he made up many "one-offs" for friends and gun writers and outfitter/guides. I have one rifle that has zero documentation and Ruger would say that it doesn't exist... and I saw a factory No.1-A in .22 LR in a Texas gunshop 30 years ago and have been called a "liar" over that one by some collectors... ironically, Ruger finally did an "official" run of them this year. So anything is possible.
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Ruger never did a run of 22 long rifle #1. It was a typo error in their advertising.
 
357Maximum said:
Ruger never did a run of 22 long rifle #1. It was a typo error in their advertising.
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You and I had this discussion before... I did not see advertising... I held the rifle and examined it closely and would have bought it if my wife hadn't been there to stop me from spending our vacation cash.
 
Have a mk 11 target grey in 220 Swift. It's almost useful after ditching the laminated bag rider stock and dumping the steel in a sporter stock.
 
JJ-65 said:
Have a mk 11 target grey in 220 Swift. It's almost useful after ditching the laminated bag rider stock and dumping the steel in a sporter stock.
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I had the same one... my .220 Swift is now the M77R MKII Sporter walnut/Blued with 24" barrel.
 
I was responding to your comment that Ruger made a run of #1 in
22 LR in 2018. They did not .


I've no idea what you saw in a gunshop in the US. And frankly don't care.

The Ruger Collectors Association has no record of a factory produced 22 LR in a # 1.

There are a number of #1s out there that have been converted by gunsmiths to 22 LR.

357
 
357Maximum said:
I was responding to your comment that Ruger made a run of #1 in
22 LR in 2018. They did not .


I've no idea what you saw in a gunshop in the US. And frankly don't care.

The Ruger Collectors Association has no record of a factory produced 22 LR in a # 1.

There are a number of #1s out there that have been converted by gunsmiths to 22 LR.

357
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What's with the hostility?

I hadn't heard that the .22 LR run was an advertising error... I just saw the thread in the Prophet River forum.

The one I did actually see was not a custom, I would be willing to stake my house on that, all stamps and tooling were classic Ruger and the engineering in the design would have been extremely difficult to pull off.

This is basically how our conversation on this subject went last time... so lets agree to disagree and leave it there.
 
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