Picked it up Friday Night, I will be having it bedded, floated and the trigger done, mounted the Leupold Vari X 11 3-9x40, comes up nice and feels lively in my hands. Waiting on my Redding dies and I will load up some 225 gr woodleigh's.

To my eye it is a nice looking gun and the action feels good. I also lucked out and got a steel floor plate rather than the aluminium unit. I am pretty happy about that. If this Ruger shoots as good as it looks I will ba a happy/lucky bloke

There is a lot to like about the Ruger action if this shoots well I may get another, I love my crf rifles cz's, win m70's (never owned an M70 yet) and the Rugers if you get a shooter are a great action as well.

This is my first try at a .338 caliber rifle.

Anyone else own one of these ??

PC: That is a very nice rifle indeed. I purchased one and gave it to my father in law and he' used it for years on bear, deer, hogs, etc. With handloads, it shoots sub MOA. The only caution i offer is during wet weather, make sure you hold on to the forend! without checkering it does thend to get very slick. jorge

Jorge thankyou,

funny you say that it feels a little slippery even when it's dry let alone wet !!


I would have purchased a cz .338 win mag in stainless had they made them............

Rugers are at good prices in Oz at the moment and represent good value.

Nice looking rifle!!

My son has a Ruger M77 Mk II in 300 win mag and it has the old style boat paddle stock so I wanted to do something special for him and get him a stock that's a little longer because he's pretty big so I ordered one of the laminate stocks from Ruger and will put a longer recoil pad on it, and get the trigger adjusted and the stock bedded so it should look really nice. Got a Leupold Vari X III 3.5-10 to put on it so hopefully he will really like it. He's a way at college now and he will see it when he comes home for Christmas. Hope he's as excited as I am.
I hope it looks as nice as yours.

BPJ, it will and it will be agreat suprise for him...............those boat paddle stocks recoil a bit so it will be much nicer

May I recommend the Timney for this application? Installed one on the kid's Mark II compact in .308. Trigger now on par with my post-64 (circa mid-70's) Win M70.

MM

I'd use a Rifle Basix trigger. I wasnt very happy with my latest timney.

By the way beautiful rifle and in the perfect chambering! Nate

I have that rifle in 30-06 and it has been suprisingly accurate for a factory rifle.

Ditto what Bignate said about the RifleBasix trigger. I put one on my son's MkII ss in .30-06. It's a pretty good shooter but the stock needs a bit of checkering orstippling, it's kind of slippery.

Ruger triggers are fairly easy to remove.... I have a batch of Ruger rifles and have just used a honing stone and honed down the triggers contact point and have ended up with very nice crisp 2.5 lb trigger pulls, with zero creep to them....

I have one Ruger with a Dayton/Traister trigger, and the trigger jobs I have done on my other Rugers are just as good, in fact better in my opinion... not because I did it, just because it is not hard and one keeps the original factory trigger....

cheers
seafire


PS: PC, nice rifle.... I have changed a few of mine to a gray laminate stock from Boyd's Gunstocks.. those even look better than the nutmeg stocks....

Thanks for the help and nice comments folks.

Picked some woodleigh 225 gr protected points today nice looking bullet. Got 50 win cases to kick it off, have a few fed 215m's and some AR2209.

Just want to get it bedded and floated before I shoot it. Need to get to my smith, or wait for the local bloke whom does great bedding and floating and trigger jobs to recover from illness.

Am wondering if a 3-9 leupold is the ideal scope for a .338 or would a 2-7 leupold be better.

I use a 2 x 7 Leupold on my 338/06....

I did go to a 3 x 9 Leupold on my 338 Mags....

I did originally have a 1.5 x 4 Bausch and Lomb on it... but that was too underpowered....

cheers
seafire

I bought one of these 338's with iron sights 2 yrs. ago. By removing the barrel channel pressure point, groups were cut in half! The trigger is pretty easy to work on if you are handy with stones. I also cut about a bit off the trigger spring. The trigger is now a crisp 3 1/2 lbs. This maybe took an hour of time. The trigger is very easy to assemble and dissasemble for testing. Even if things do not work out okay, you can always buy one of those $80-100 replacements. I like the rifle very much. It now shoots 1 moa with good loads and feeds smoothly. I scoped it with a 1.5-6x Bushnell Elite 4200. The only thing I do not like is that it is a heavy bitch when hauling it in these Wyoming mountains!!. So I am thinking of buying a Bansner high-tech fiberglass stock for it. This should chop a pound off the weight.

I have a .338 win.mag. in a winchester 70 classic sporter and i love it.Try reloader 19 and 225 gr.nosler accubonds.

Thanks for the suggestions folks !!

36 grain of Blue Dot and a 200 grain Nosler Partition. Shoots flat enough and makes biiiig holes into any deer (and most hogs).