Ruger M77 Tang

freddiej said:
hugetacticles
I can not speak for anyone else but I have found that Rugers of all vintages need to be rebarreled. I have given up on Ruggers all together these days. I have seen them blow up, blow the barrels off, kill the nut behind the trigger, I have lost a few good hunting partners because of Rugger M-77's. as a general rule the Rugger barrels are crappy. you are better off rebarreling the rifle, then lightly bedding the rifle in the stock, then it should shoot sub 1". If you have a good Receiver then you have a good rifle, you just have one of the 94 out of 100 with a crappy barrel.
you can try recrowing the barrel, J&B Bore Paste to get the carbon out or the copper out, scrub the barrel to bare metal and then bore scope it, if it is rough then hand lapping will help if you are willing to spend the time. if it does not have big pits in the bore then shoot three rounds if they do not group then rebarrel it with something that will shoot well for you. or you can dump the Rugger and get something worth the investment.
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Never heard of a ruger blowing up. Tried to do it once on a m77mk2 action, broke the trigger sear and firing pin spring. Parts replaced and that rifle is still going strong.
 
Hi all. Love these tang safety rugers. Sorry to hijack but I am desperate. Any ony have a Tang safety button I could purchase. Lost mine. I live in Australia.
Cheers
 
Andrew Cowling said:
Hi all. Love these tang safety rugers. Sorry to hijack but I am desperate. Any ony have a Tang safety button I could purchase. Lost mine. I live in Australia.
Cheers
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Try this...Not sure if you can order in AUS...Looks like they are out of stock, but may be able to contact about when they have them.

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Ruger 77 Safety Button

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I have ordered from Moyes before but was disappointed in what I received (bad craftsmanship). The safety button may be different or hold you over to you can find an original...

 
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I have had good luck buying from Numrich but not so much selling them parts to keep their prices down they don't want to pay you much .
 
I'm not experienced as most on here, but here is my experience with my tang safety M77, 25-06, with heavy barrel. Was trying to help reduce the coyotes roaming behind the house, max distance 100 to 150 yds. Couldn't get it to shoot much of anything repeatable. After spending may hours searching the web, figured out that the lug tightening sequence had a huge affect and that on my gun - DON'T clean the bore. It shoots better with a fouled bore. I'm too old to miss with hand loading, so it was trial and error to find the best commercial load. But I don't need super accuracy. And there are less coyotes roaming around.
 
Just a heads up. Harbor Freight Tools has inch pound and foot pound torque wrenches for about $20 or less with a coupon. This is what I use and they are fine.
 
I've the exact gun, round bolt which I bought when I was in college in 1991.
Got it used at a pawn shop.
Would not shoot for crap.
Had an older more knowledgeable friend help me try and figure out why.
We finally concluded, IT WILL NOT SHOOT ANYTHING UNDER 150 GRAIN BULLETS.
Have never loaded for it, but it will shoot cheap, 175 grain Remington corelocks, the green box, at an inch.
Plenty good for whitetails and hogs.
It's light and kicks like a perturbed mule, but I've been happy with it. It was my first rifle that my dad didn't buy me and larger than a 243 I ever owned.

Hope this helps, might w worth a try.
 
Update on my dads Remington 700. My dad bought a remmington 700 bdl 35 years ago from a big box store. It has a wood stock and he's done nothing to it. We replaced his red field scope with a vortex viper and floated the barrel. He had a 3 shot group touching at 100 yards. He had 2 shells left and shot at 200 yards off a lead slead. He just showed me the picture and the 2 shots were touching at 200 yards. I'm excited for him to get more ammo and shoot. He's shooting barnes 168 grain ttsx out of his 30.06.
 
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Hugetesticles reporting an update here. Here is a summary of the work I had done. I put a vortex viper hs and rings on it when I inherited the rifle. I then had the barrel floated and had the action bedded with devcon. I got my rifle back from the smith who bedded it for me. I ordered a wrench and got the front lug tightened to 50 inch pounds. The back bolt is at 25 and the middle one is just barely tight enough to hold the screw in. And here is my result. I'm using 160 grain Barnes TSX. I took 2 shots with cheap ammo to get it on the paper after bore siting and then took 1 three shot group at 100 yards with the Barnes. I'm thrilled with the results.
 

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