My third Ruger Lott is redone.It has a 25 inch Krieger barrel,Necg rear+front sights and barrel band.It has a dressel's grip cap,a brownell's magnum recoil lug,Wolfe striker and sear spring and a Silvers red recoil pad.The stock is oil finished.Metal parts are rust blued.The sights are welded on and a drift is required to adjust windage.The trigger breaks like glass and is slightly on the light side.I just received it today.
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There's a no-nonsense safari rifle!

Give that stock some alkanet root and hand it over to a good checkering artist or maybe a synthetic stock.

Shootaway,

Beautiful rifle. Did you mean that the sights are soldered or brazed on? Or are they really welded?

What did you do with the original barrel? Didn't it come with a classic quarter rib? Fine looking rifle there.

Here is a modified Ruger Lott that I would not mind being behind after some recheckering

Just curious what you like so much about the Ruger platform that makes you buy three of them?



boom stick - how many does that hold?

I had one of those Rugers in 375 when they first came out. They had the sling swivel on the forend with a ring around the barrel that was part of the stud that projected from the forend.

shootaway would do well to run a SAAMI .458 Winchester Magnum reamer into his SAAMI .458 Lott,
if that is what it is.
All that will change for him is the throat of the chamber,
with improved performance of the rifle: Higher velocity, lower pressure, same accuracy which depends on rest of rifle and shooter.
That would make it just like the original wildcat .458 Lott LIKE JACK BUILT.

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Originally posted by Mike McGuire:
I had one of those Rugers in 375 when they first came out. They had the sling swivel on the forend with a ring around the barrel that was part of the stud that projected from the forend.

That would be RSM-Gen1: Fat 24" barrel with barrel-banded sling stud through the forearm,
same as they used to make the tang-safety/pushfeed M77 .458 WIN, pre-RSM.

RSM-Gen2: Fat 24" barrel with barrel-banded sling stud forward of the forearm.
I got one of these circa 2000.
Mine is a .416 Rigby.
24" barrel
0.810" muzzle diameter
10.75-pound dry weight, laser-like accuracy ...
Killed my first cape buffalo with that, one shot at 50 yards, bucked like a rodeo bull, ran 50 yards away and died.
380-grain GSC FN at +2500 fps MV, exited and finally hit a tree or dirt somewhere in Botswana, maybe made it to Namibia.
Now think of a .458 WIN-3.395" COL with 400-grain GSC HV at +2500 fps.
It would have been a BFDRT (bang-flop-dead-right-there) on the cape buffalo.

RSM-Gen3: Slimmed 23" barrel with barrel-banded sling stud forward of the forearm:

Sorry for the delay.I am at and enjoying Las Vegas.Vegas is sure beautiful in March-lots of people here- day and night over Feb.Those sexy Vegas "picture girls" can be tiresome.One asked me if I wanted to take a picture of me between her and her friend but I just smiled and walked away.She followed, pinched my nipple and said "I know you'll like it".She was right about that .I saw her again today.I might have to give in.

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Originally posted by shootaway:
Sorry for the delay.I am at and enjoying Las Vegas.Vegas is sure beautiful in March-lots of people here- day and night over Feb.Those sexy Vegas "picture girls" can be tiresome.One asked me if I wanted to take a picture of me between her and her friend but I just smiled and walked away.She followed, pinched my nipple and said "I know you'll like it".She was right about that .I saw her again today.I might have to give in.

Must be the Canadian accent AY

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Originally posted by p dog shooter:

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Originally posted by shootaway:
Sorry for the delay.I am at and enjoying Las Vegas.Vegas is sure beautiful in March-lots of people here- day and night over Feb.Those sexy Vegas "picture girls" can be tiresome.One asked me if I wanted to take a picture of me between her and her friend but I just smiled and walked away.She followed, pinched my nipple and said "I know you'll like it".She was right about that .I saw her again today.I might have to give in.

Must be the Canadian accent AY

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Originally posted by skl1:
Shootaway,

Beautiful rifle. Did you mean that the sights are soldered or brazed on? Or are they really welded?

I keep on forgetting the term used.It's the gold coloured stuff.

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Originally posted by shootaway:

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Originally posted by skl1:
Shootaway,

Beautiful rifle. Did you mean that the sights are soldered or brazed on? Or are they really welded?

I keep on forgetting the term used.It's the gold coloured stuff.

Brazed on then

Thanks!

The 2nd gen RSM was the BEST rifle Ruger ever made and of course they discontinued it. Complete idiots.

It was the best value/quality DG rifle available.

I had a 375 H&H.

I redid mine: checkering, recoil paid, reprofiled stock, bedded, and trigger job.

Pictures

I made a mistake and sold it! Wanted something lighter for Alaska (have a Mauser M03 Extreme - very happy - got a 1/2 off deal).

I posted pics of it on the 375 H&H group on Facebook (which I run) and a guy replied that he had my rifle! It had made it from the buyer to an American PH in Zimbabwe - problem animals mainly. Posted pics and video of lion kills and other animals.

I like what I see other than the caliber and my age forbids that kind of recoil these days, wore out the upper portion of my bod with excessive recoil and have become a wuss!! Like my 375 and 93x62 these days..

I like the extended magazine, I had one like that on my 416 Rem custom Enfield rifle. Load it on Sun. and the following Sat.

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Originally posted by Atkinson:
I like what I see other than the caliber and my age forbids that kind of recoil these days, wore out the upper portion of my bod with excessive recoil and have become a wuss!! Like my 375 and 93x62 these days..

I like the extended magazine, I had one like that on my 416 Rem custom Enfield rifle. Load it on Sun. and the following Sat.

Old worn out guys sem to do just fine with a standard 458 Win.

And the game doesn't seem to notice.

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Originally posted by 458Win:
Old worn out guys sem to do just fine with a standard 458 Win.

And the game doesn't seem to notice.

Sir, I resemble that remark.

Rip ...

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Originally posted by shootaway:
My third Ruger Lott is redone.It has a 25 inch Krieger barrel,Necg rear+front sights and barrel band.It has a dressel's grip cap,a brownell's magnum recoil lug,Wolfe striker and sear spring and a Silvers red recoil pad.The stock is oil finished.Metal parts are rust blued.The sights are welded on and a drift is required to adjust windage.The trigger breaks like glass and is slightly on the light side.I just received it today.
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shootaway:

That's an interesting background for such a work of art... It must have taken hours to assemble it!

Bob
www.bigbores.ca

Maybe he is just a hunter and shooter, as opposed to a closet queen photographer, there are those you know..but he got his point across to most I spect..

I remember the day when checkering was to improve your grip on the rifle!! wot hoppened?

Fine checkering does not boode well in my saddle scabbards!

Not to say that I havn't owned a custom gun or two with all the bells and whistles..fortunately I could refinish and rechecker my own. but mostly sold them..No condemnation, just looking back in time.