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Offline Ranger J

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Ruger 77/44
« on: September 21, 2006, 09:09:43 AM »
Has anyone had any experience with a Ruger 77/44?  I know Ruger doesn’t make them any more but there should be some still around.  What is the twist rate of the barrel, 1 in 20 like other Ruger 44s?  I have tried the search option and can’t get it to work.  Is it operative yet?
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Re: Ruger 77/44
« Reply #1 on: September 21, 2006, 02:10:01 PM »
I have a Blued/  Walnut 77/44 that I really like,   ;D  It is a pretty good shooter with cast bullets, but if I push them to hard the are less accurate, but It would make a good deer rifle with-in its limitations... :D I haven't been lucky enough to take a deer with it yet but I'll keep trying!!!  :(  They are prety hard to find in my area!!! :(

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Re: Ruger 77/44
« Reply #2 on: September 29, 2006, 04:19:53 AM »
I have a stainless 77/44.  It is a good shooter and recoil is not too bad.  Mine can be quite accurate if I do my part, but so far it seems to like some ammo better than others.  I have gotten sub inch groups at 50 yards though.  My only complaint is that I dont like the open sights on it (this would go for most ruger rifles).  I have a scope on it now, but a 44 mag carbine is a close range gun and does not need a scope for hunting.

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Re: Ruger 77/44
« Reply #3 on: March 02, 2007, 02:37:54 PM »
 worked with mine (blued model) extensively and systematically with five powders and mainly two gaschecked cast bullets before finally realizing it REALLY needed a bedding job.  I was stuck on it, almost gave up but liked the gun and had already paid to smith the trigger right out of the box so started playing with shims under the action and it started to tease me.  I always shot and measured 5 shot groups at 100yds with 6X scope extra heavy reticle and EJS? fore-end stabilizer on big 300yd  benchrest bulls!  So 600 rounds later with mostly 2 bullets with H110, W296, H2400, IMR4198, IMR4227. Even some jacketed stuff wouldn't shoot so I took it to the smith as a last ditch effort and he bedded it really solidly and that fixed it completely; he could tell it was moving around, and that was a new gun.  Live and learn, didn't test it much after that, just went with:

all bullets quite heavily crimped:

20.3gr H110 CCI350 210gr mold plus gascheck (which fit mag nice) is my regular plinking load which was quite consistently benching 5 shot groups at 3" (not without exception) but not uncommonly  putting 4 at less than 2" centre to centre 
I don't use a chrono but did chrono one of these at 1751fps.

looks like I also had good luck with above bullet with 19.0gr IMR4227 CCI 350


21.3gr H110 with 240gr XTP HP work well too

looks like I also had good luck with 19.5gr H110 240gr XTP HP

worked with one box of 265gr FP and optimized H110 at 21.0gr; this load had 4 shots in 1 and7/8"  (just under 2") without fore-end stabilizer