Just a quick question for those Ruger RSM owners. Are the floor plate, trigger guard steel being their top of the range rifle or alloy like their main rifle range?

RSM's are all steel, floorplate and trigger guard, two-piece bottom metal.

The main range now is the Hawkeye and it is all steel too, two-piece.

The previous CRF Mk II M77's had a mix of steel and alloy, two-piece. I got both versions on various models.

The original tang safety, push-feed M77 "Mk I" was uniformly alloy except for the old .458WinMag which came with a steel trigger guard and steel floorplate.
I used to order the steel bottom metal from Brownells to replace the alloy stuff.
I broke a few alloy trigger guards and always ended up getting steel replacements when that happened, or before it happened.

Rugers have evolved.

So the MKII 77 Magnum is an all steel rifle?

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Originally posted by Macifej:
So the MKII 77 Magnum is an all steel rifle?

Alloy trigger guards and floor plates are crap, and Ruger has finally learned to cut the crap.

Oops!
Even the magazine followers are steel in the Hawkeye and RSM.

Not a bit of aluminum alloy in my Rugers anymore.
All my Rugers are highest quality now.