I have had very good accuracy with 3 of 4 Ruger #1 rifles.

I keep buying them to rebarrel, but they are too accurate to change. Finally, the 4th one was the charm.

Haha, tragedy tnekkcc!! Rifles that shoot! Absolutely horrible...

The first Ruger rifle I bought was a 1B in 7mm rem. Mag. with a SN in the 6XXX range. New, right out of the box with a Leupold 2X-7X on it, I was surprised to find the first 5 shots I fired after boresighting it went into 1" @ 200 yards. (Someone was using the 100 yard bench.) This was with a load consistiong of 66 grains of N205 with the Remington Corelokt 175-grain bullet. This load chrono'ed at 3070 FPS 10' from the muzzle.

The next one I bought in 1972. It was a tang-safety M77 in 7X57mm. My first five shots from this jewel, using a Lyman All-American fixed 4X, was shopt with Rem. FACTORY 175-grain RN ammo (I needed cases!!) all went into 1" at 100 yards. Hnadloads with the 140-grain Sierra and 140-grain Noisler Partition shot even better.

These two Rugers were followed over the years by: a No. 1A 7X57mm, a 1B .30/'06, 1H .375 H&H, and a 1S .45/70, plus a No. 3 in 1976 in .30/40 Krag.

ALL of these rifles shoot 1 MOA or less with handloads, except for the .30/'06, which will only do 1.5 MOA or so..... The No. 3 is especially good!

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Originally posted by El Deguello:
The first Ruger rifle I bought was a 1B in 7mm rem. Mag. with a SN in the 6XXX range. New, right out of the box with a Leupold 2X-7X on it, I was surprised to find the first 5 shots I fired after boresighting it went into 1" @ 200 yards.

I got #1 in 7mag intending to rebarrel to 300WM.
But first, I fired a test group: 1.75 x 6.5 x 36 Varri-iii 0.9" 3 shot group at 100y, 175 gr 2850fps

But I can even see a .9" black dot at 100y with a 6.5X scope.
Who knows how accurate that rifle really is?

Somebody go buy a Mini 14 and get back to us on accuracy.

Or how about a single six with a .228 inch barrel?

Dr G

GS:

Read TC1's post on page 1.

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Originally posted by mrlexma:
Savages, Howas, Remingtons, etc., can be accurate too. But tacky is tacky and there ain't no fixing or making up for that.

Don't mean to ruffle any (or at least not too many) feathers, but as the fisherman used to say to the tuna, "Sorry, Charlie!" Rugers are derivative, imitative, cost cutting, investment cast, low rent substitutes for the rifles we really want. Don't get me wrong, they do have their place, but that is it.

For the connnoisseur, they lack any but the meagerest quantities of style and grace, and to the aficionado, those flaws are always fatal.

Ah, come on mrlexma, dont hold back say what you really mean!! While they may not be on par with a custom rifle as far as asthetics are concerned, I think they are the class of the field compared to the Remingtons, Winchesters, Brownings, Savages, Weatherbys...And when it comes to single shots, you cant touch a No.1 with extra good wood. Just my 2 cents.

I have 5 Rugers 4 of them 77 mk11
220 swift
243 win
25-06---77rsi
308
300 mag
none of them have a one thing done to them from the box.
all of them shoot 1/2 to 3/4 5 shot groups with handloads.
remington is the one I will never buy another one I had a new 30-06 BDL and 7mm mag ADL both of them was a pos. now I only have Savage and Rugers

I have a Ruger Tactical in 308. The barrel is fine. Expect to have to bed the thing. I remember all the advertizing back in the seventies that said that angled front guard screw "drew" the action into the stock and improved accuracy.

Horsefeathers.

The action moved from side to side and got worse as the front lug pounded some clearance into the stock. I have targets, when I first got the rifle, OK they were just above an inch, but now I can look and say, hey look at that lateral dispersion. When I bedded the rifle, my first five shot group, prone with a sling, was five shots almost all touching. A big improvement.

I have shot this rifle in 1000 yard competitions and I am stock limited. When I put on a 20 MOA mount the scope got raised real high, so my stock weld is awful. Still the rifle is capable of holding the 10 ring at 1000, even if I am not. Sometimes it seems it could hold the X ring, but hard to know. I shot a 196 with the thing, but it could have been chance. I am an awful long range shot and the 308 is slow and wind sensitive at 1000 yards.

The subcaliber guys just eat my lunch.

I've never had any accuracy problems with any Rugers, EXCEPT for the Mini-30. I have known people with Mini-14's, too. They weren't accurate either.

But in among those folks complaining about poor Ruger accuracy, I'd be willing to bet there are SOME who just can't shoot-not all of them, of course, but some.....

They are fairly acurate, once you replace the goddam un-adjustable trigger and get used to the unnecessary heft!