I may be a saddest!

[Lloyd Smale]

thats about it! and for a gun i dont really need anyway.

Lloyd,

All you needed to do to make it shoot was throw another $600 at it in the forme of a premium barrel.

Regards,

[Savage_99]

I like Rugers but not to the exclusion of others.

I got one of the first Ruger #1's when they came out and still have it.

Here is a Ruger 77 Express 270 that I like to show because of it's stock.  It shoots just ok.   Maybe I will tune it this summer.

[Lloyd Smale]

thats pretty enough to almost excuse it being a  mediocure shooter. About like dating the prom queen. She may not be a 4.0 student but shes hot enough to make up for it.

[Bugflipper]

I like rugers wood stocks better than any of their competitors. Brownings are probably the shiniest with what ever thick plastic like shallack or epoxy they coat them in, but a ruger always seems to have a better grain in their stock than any other one next to them on the shelf. That one Savage posted up is a perfect example of why Rugers sell so good. They are good looking classic rifles. That would be right at home in any 50's or 60's deer camp when the stocks had a little grain definition to them instead of the mass market pine looking hardwood plantation gunstock walnut most of em' use today.

[theratdog]

before i would spend 600 bucks for a barrel i would get a different gun no brainer for me.

[pastorp]

There are many reasons to rebarrel a gun. Inaccuracy is just one of them. If you shoot a lot eventually you'll need a new barrel or to get a caliber not chambered in that model/brand. You could even need a different twist to shoot a certain bullet.
New barrels are not cheep, but neither are new guns. 

[Huffmanite]

FWIW, several years ago, bought a well used .270 Ruger tang safety rifle for $210 (plus tax) from a Gander Mtn store.  Not a .270 fan and rifle shot fairly poorly for accuracy, so bought an inexpensive A&B heavy contour barrel from Midway (now shown as Green Mtn barrels) and had it rebarreled to 7x57.  It became a fairly accurate rifle then.....1/2 to 3/4" four shot 100 yd groups quite common with it. 

[Savage_99]

thats pretty enough to almost excuse it being a  mediocure shooter. About like dating the prom queen. She may not be a 4.0 student but shes hot enough to make up for it.

Since it's going to rain tomorrow I may load some ammo for it and put a shim under it's barrel.   Like you say we can't ignore a girl with good legs.

[Lloyd Smale]

savage that things so pretty that id consider taking a rod up to the target and poking holes in it close together and try to convince myself the gun put them there!!

[FPH]

before i would spend 600 bucks for a barrel i would get a different gun no brainer for me.

There are times I will buy a specific action or barreled action for the purpose of rebarreling with the barrel of my choice, be it caliber or brand.

[Graybeard]

Let's bring this one back up and see if folks might want to talk more about it.

[Lloyd Smale]

only thing that's changed is hawkeyes have turned out to be not much better and ruger actually started making an accurate rifle. Good thing is its a cheap ugly gun. Bad thing is its a cheap ugly gun. When are they going to wake up and ditch the 77 action. Its been a ho hum rifle since the first ones hit the market. If we could get rem to ditch there ugly stocks and merge with ruger and put rem 700s in ruger stocks wed have something. Only nice looking rems were the classic and the cdl. Adls and bdls you can have!