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Posted: 5/3/2014 5:35:29 PM EDT
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FIL just gifted me with a Ruger M-77 in 7 mm Magnum. I've been planning a build up of a magnum rifle for western hunting as a future project and this is the perfect candidate.
My current plan is to re-barrel in .300 Win Mag with a custom match barrel. Any curve balls I need to know about with the Tang safety Rugers? Straight up right hand threads, slap it in the vice? I have barreled Mausers and Remingtons , but never had a Ruger on my bench. Words of wisdom? |
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FIL just gifted me with a Ruger M-77 in 7 mm Magnum. I've been planning a build up of a magnum rifle for western hunting as a future project and this is the perfect candidate. My current plan is to re-barrel in .300 Win Mag with a custom match barrel. Any curve balls I need to know about with the Tang safety Rugers? Straight up right hand threads, slap it in the vice? I have barreled Mausers and Remingtons , but never had a Ruger on my bench. Words of wisdom? I'd spend some time working on handloads for that barrel before slapping another on just because. Maybe lap the bore if it looks promising after a couple range sessions. Some Ruger barrels were crap, but others are absolute gems for accuracy. And if it turns out that it's a shooter, you won't find a much better caliber for Western big game hunting anyway, and you've saved significant cash and time on the custom match barrel you now don't have to buy, install, blue, etc. Put that cash toward a hunt. Win. Win. Win. (Well, maybe.) 
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Yep, I'm going to have to shoot it.
I had decided that the .300 was what I wanted, but events are conspiring against me. Free Rifle. I actually picked it out at the local show, $321 OTD, tax, call, everything. The action and barrel are perfect, the stock is beat to crap from riding in a truck and being on sling, as is the bottom metal. I bought it for the potential, but having time to give it a close inspection in good light today; There is zero wear on the bolt face, bluing intact on the face and the lugs, ejector is clean as a whistle, zero wear on the bolt handle, firing pin, shroud, The blue is still on the rails inside the action. No wear or marks on the magazine follower, looks factory new. The rifling is dirty, but crisp. I would bet the price of the rifle it hasn't had a box of ammo through it, and any amount that the round count is less than 100. Zeroed and truck riding for it's whole life. Now I come to work and my coworker tells me he has a set of dies I can have. 
And I have about 80 once fired brass someone gifted me. 
Might be a 7mm Mag guy after all.......... |
| Something you might want to check in to (but I am not sure if this is for a tang safety M77 or the current version) |
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Something you might want to check in to (but I am not sure if this is for a tang safety M77 or the current version) That's a nice looking piece of wood, but I am unsure if the Mk II stock and the tang safety are interchangeable. And; my stock is probably savable, it doesn't have any heavy damage, just a multitude of scratches, dings, and worn off finish. Taking it down, steaming the dings and sanding it out should do a lot for it, and the plan is a working gun, not a beauty queen. 
Anybody rebarrel one? issues? |
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That's a nice looking piece of wood, but I am unsure if the Mk II stock and the tang safety are interchangeable. Quoted:
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Something you might want to check in to (but I am not sure if this is for a tang safety M77 or the current version) That's a nice looking piece of wood, but I am unsure if the Mk II stock and the tang safety are interchangeable. They're not. The length and width of the upper tang is completely different. |
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