Ruger 77 338 Win Mag
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Ruger 77 338 Win Mag
I'm looking at a Ruger 77 338 Win Mag for sale on Gun Broker for 669.00, it has a scope and muzzle brake, it has a walnut scope. Has anyone had experience with a Ruger 77 in this caliber or maybe a 300 Win Mag in Ruger 77?
It seems like a great price, but I'm unfamiliar with them.
It seems like a great price, but I'm unfamiliar with them.
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Re: Ruger 77 338 Win Mag
Yes.
I took mine to Africa and took several plains game with it. a friend took his eland with it too.
A couple of years ago took a nice bull elk with it.
Mine has tang safety and is magna ported, glass bedded, trigger pull lowered to 4 pounds, a Limb Saver recoil pad, a Leupold scope and shoots well.
They are good reliable rifles and that sounds like a good price to me.
If the rifle looks good, will the seller let you shoot it?
I took mine to Africa and took several plains game with it. a friend took his eland with it too.
A couple of years ago took a nice bull elk with it.
Mine has tang safety and is magna ported, glass bedded, trigger pull lowered to 4 pounds, a Limb Saver recoil pad, a Leupold scope and shoots well.
They are good reliable rifles and that sounds like a good price to me.
If the rifle looks good, will the seller let you shoot it?
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Re: Ruger 77 338 Win Mag
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I've had a couple-three .338 Win Mag's, one of them a Ruger All-Weather (stainless w/black synthetic stock) - but I've never seen a walnut scope...........
I usually value an unknown or inexpensive (used) scope @ $ zero.
The seller sounds a little proud of his, though - but for $100 less than the asking, it's a winner.
OTOH, if it's a Mark I (tang-safety), it's a bargain.
Although, on GB, what you see is what you get, usually no shooting or sale sans scope.
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I've had a couple-three .338 Win Mag's, one of them a Ruger All-Weather (stainless w/black synthetic stock) - but I've never seen a walnut scope...........

I usually value an unknown or inexpensive (used) scope @ $ zero.
The seller sounds a little proud of his, though - but for $100 less than the asking, it's a winner.
OTOH, if it's a Mark I (tang-safety), it's a bargain.
Although, on GB, what you see is what you get, usually no shooting or sale sans scope.
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Re: Ruger 77 338 Win Mag
I had a 77 in 338 for a while. It was a pretty decent rifle. Mine didn't have a muzzlebreak. Personally I'd avoid the muzzlebreak. They're loud and I didn't really find the 77 338 to be that bad in the recoil department anyway.
Re: Ruger 77 338 Win Mag
Don't have a muzzle brake on mine and don't feel the need for one. Mine is a tang safety RS model (with open sights)
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Re: Ruger 77 338 Win Mag
I have a stainless with a laminate stock. I put a kickease pad on it and if I shoot it I get so it is not a problem. If I put it away for a year when I first shoot it, it seems a little rough but doable. I like it and hope to go for elk and a moose before the body totally gives out.
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Re: Ruger 77 338 Win Mag
My 1976 (tang) 6mm has been relable, and shoots 5-shot cloverleafs at 100 yards with Lee kit-loader (old 'target loader with inside neck reamed and micrometer seating die) assembled loads.
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Re: Ruger 77 338 Win Mag
The tang safety one I had shot very well and was more comfortable to shoot than any other rifle I've shot in that power class, and much more comfortable to shoot (to me) than a Winchester model 70 300 mag I worked loads up for a guy with. I didn't like shooting it at all. Very sharp and unpleasant recoil. The Boss on it was also hideously loud.
Nota fan of brakes. The 77 I had didn't need one in any event. Very nice shooting rifle with a Decelerator pad. Avoid shooting it off a bench, or avoid leaning into it on a bench, and it should be fine. I shot mostly 250 gr loads.
Nota fan of brakes. The 77 I had didn't need one in any event. Very nice shooting rifle with a Decelerator pad. Avoid shooting it off a bench, or avoid leaning into it on a bench, and it should be fine. I shot mostly 250 gr loads.
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Re: Ruger 77 338 Win Mag
Nothing wrong with that one. I have one that I have had 35 years, never a problem with it. It's downed deer, bear, elk and moose. I like the 250 grain bullets in it.
Re: Ruger 77 338 Win Mag
I had a Stainless/Synthetic 77MKII for quite a few years. It was plenty accurate, and a real powerhouse. I bought it brand new in 2000 for $349. It was the last of the boat paddle stocks, and the store had the rifles with the new design stocks out on the racks but a handful of the old models in back on clearance. I settled on the 225 gr. Nosler Accubond with a full load of IMR4831. Clocked just over 2900 fps, and was very flat shooting.
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Re: Ruger 77 338 Win Mag
Thank you for those fine responses. I have been a Winchester collector, but this Ruger looks like a good gun and I have
wanted to add a 338 to my arsenal.
I love guns that are made in America, and Ruger has a pretty good reputation.
wanted to add a 338 to my arsenal.
I love guns that are made in America, and Ruger has a pretty good reputation.
Re: Ruger 77 338 Win Mag
Yea, but they look so much classier than the blue or silver scopes everybody else has.cas wrote:I'd be a little leary of that walnut scope.
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Re: Ruger 77 338 Win Mag
Have a M77 chambered for 300 Win Mag...have not pulled it out of the closet in a few years. For no other reason than have not had a need to. Mine is an excellent long range hunting rifle with a 2-6X30 scope...zeroed in at 200 yards with scale to 600. Will absolutely carry true to the 600 with a 160gr BT. Kicks like a mule when loaded full bore 200gr bullets.daisygordoninc wrote:I'm looking at a Ruger 77 338 Win Mag for sale on Gun Broker for 669.00, it has a scope and muzzle brake, it has a walnut scope. Has anyone had experience with a Ruger 77 in this caliber or maybe a 300 Win Mag in Ruger 77?
It seems like a great price, but I'm unfamiliar with them.
Still looks new...now that you made me pull it out.
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Re: Ruger 77 338 Win Mag
I have a top tang made in 1990.I bought it at the local gun shop.A man bought it to go to Africa.He sighted it in and never got to go .It sat in the safe until he traded it last year.I shot it with my handloaded 200gr. bullets .The first load I tried shot just over 1/2 inch at 100yds.
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Re: Ruger 77 338 Win Mag
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Re: Ruger 77 338 Win Mag
LGS has a 338wm Ruger #1 for sale
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