Ruger 77 OEM in .416 Taylor?

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14 June 2005, 04:14

Paladin

Ruger 77 OEM in .416 Taylor?

Was surfin' about with the idea of building a rifle in .416 Taylor when I happened upon the Ruger home page and found that they apparently once produced some rifles in that flavor:

http://www.ruger.com/Firearms/SE-H-CalibersRI.html

Anybody ever seen one? or was this one of those things that they announced and never produced?

Rick R
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14 June 2005, 04:29

RIP

Bob Chatfield-Taylor tried to get Winchester to produce the .416 Taylor. They chambered a couple of them for R&D. Ruger did the same. It never panned out with the bean counters. Ken Waters wrote something about this in his _Pet Loads_ compilation. I think he got one of the Ruger M77 rifles for load development testing, about 1973, IIRC.

14 June 2005, 05:02

Paladin

RIP
Thanks for the quick info. Guess I can quit looking on GunsAmerica for one

Rick R
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14 June 2005, 05:05

jeffeosso

funny.. it doesn't list the 416 rigby on that page

jeffe

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14 June 2005, 05:15

Paladin

quote:
Originally posted by jeffeosso:
funny.. it doesn't list the 416 rigby on that page

jeffe

They list it under the single shots and the deluxe bolt gun sections above the vanilla M-77 section.

Rick R
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