14 June 2005, 04:14
PaladinRuger 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.htmlAnybody ever seen one? or was this one of those things that they announced and never produced?
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
PaladinRIP
Thanks for the quick info. Guess I can quit looking on GunsAmerica for one

14 June 2005, 05:05
jeffeossofunny.. it doesn't list the 416 rigby on that page
jeffe
14 June 2005, 05:15
Paladinquote:
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.