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My rifle arrived this week as well, and I picked it up Saturday. I like the look and feel of the rifle, it has plain but nice American black walnut (says the manual). The trigger is the new LC6 unit, which is visibly different from the Mark II trigger on a second Ruger M77 I have here. I am looking for factory ammo too, to see how that works. I like the package, but some details need work. The trigger pull averages 6# on my Lymaan electronic gauge, and the safety is the same length as previous units (isn't there a guy selling a longer lever?). Overall a nice rifle for a factory made dangerous game rifle.  jim if you're too busy to hunt,you're too busy. | |||
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Hello, I have owned,own Ruger M77 rifles and have access to state of the art machine shop apparatus and have considered fashioning a different safety lever, longer, rounded corners, shapely, checkered, etc., but if one were to make it a bit longer, it would be quite easy to bump it from one position to another which may not be a good idea if you "catch my drift..." I do not like the shape of the trigger but it may well be designed just to do what it is supposed to do, make the gun as safe as possible as a mechanical safety. My only real complaint is that the edges/corners are a bit on the sharp side and that can be modified without altering the functional aspects of the safety lever. Have not had the opportunity to examine Ruger's new offerings, but from your report and others it sounds like they have a winner and it is actually showing up on the market much quicker than many had predicted. Score another hit for Ruger!! | |||
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No ammo today. Maybe next week? I agree with driver on the safety. I don't mind it at all, works for me. Hopefully it won't be too hard to lighten the trigger without having to replace it. | |||
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RIP, just wondering if you have slipped the beauty into her work clothes to check balance, weight etc? I have high hopes that Canada may receive a few of these rifles shortly and would like to do the same (have an HS Precision stock to put on for serious use). Cheers, Canuck | |||
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Canuck, Will do shortly, when I get caught up on some other chores.  | |||
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No panic...it could be a while before I lay my hands on the rifle anyway. But please report here when you do try it out.  Cheers, Canuck | |||
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Canuck, It won't be much trouble. I promise my next post here will be about this. Now back to chores, until I need another break. | |||
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Tho I have not seen the new Ruger Hawkeye 375 and it,s saftey.....That is one of the best things about the m77mk 2 .......I have HAD to get it off in a real hurry and have always been able to.............But I think it brings up an important issue......Mainly that I have NEVER had the saftey on any of the near 20 different mk 2s I,ve owned come off safe when I, DID NOT want them to ....Or put another way .. They stayed on safe until I took them off safe....and my hands are about as clumsy as a pair of lunch hooks can be...........It is the only rifle that has been that way... Mayby a Savage would stay on safe .. I,ll try it this year...... RIP ,,thank you for posting targets and photos the way you do ............. .If it can,t be grown , its gotta be mined .... | |||
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Very nice rifle RIP! Impatiently waiting for a range report....... "Ignorance you can correct, you can't fix stupid." JWP If stupidity hurt, a lot of people would be walking around screaming. Semper Fidelis "Building Carpal Tunnel one round at a time" | |||
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Prety darn nice rifle, More power than I have a use for , but I like the rifle. I will take a 9.3X62 , or a whelen or a .358 Ruger ,(just cause there is no such thing should,nt get in the way !). A 300 win in the standard hawkeye , may actully be in my future. ...tj3006 freedom1st | |||
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Canuck, The barreled action weighs 6 pounds or 5#15.5oz. The walnut stock weighs 1.75 pounds or 1#12.5oz. This is on a cheap home scale, but Joe of Real Guns got 7.75 pounds for his bare naked lady .375 Ruger, and so do I. The HS Precision stock weighs 2.25 pounds and the weight of the stock alone balances on the rear action screw hole/pillar. The slim walnut stock is lighter by a half pound and balances more buttward, on the grip cap area. By happy circumstance, the HS Precision stock just adds a half pound to the rifle and does not change the balance point: still on the floorplate hinge pin. It is an 8.25 pound bare/empty wieght rifle in the HS Precision stock, but she ain't no lady that way! HSP is not a drop-in fit for the Ruger, will require minor fitting around the tang, trigger guard, and front floor plate seat, then the recoil lug and under action surfaces of the stock will needed to be relieved a little and a minimal amount of epoxy bedding to center that flat bottom action. The full aluminum bedding block will be good.This exercise has made me appreciate how nicely Ruger has fitted wood to metal in this rifle. Excellent. Even has a little relief at rear of tang and the barrel channel is free floated but barely visible, and everything is symmetric. The factory wood stock is an excellent drop-in fit and I might just have to glass this one and use it. | |||
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gumboot458, Whitworth, and Thomas Jones, Thanks for the comments. This little rifle appears to be one of the nicest products Ruger has ever produced. I hope it shoots too! | |||
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You rock RIP! Thank you very much. Sounds EXACTLY like my new elk/moose rifle.  Can't wait til for your range reports! Hope they don't hold out the ammo on you for long. Cheers, C | |||
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No ammo yet. Suggested retail from a dealer I know is $48 to $49 per box of 20 rounds: 270gr soft, 300gr soft, 300gr solid/FMJ Not as bad as the $65/box that was prematurely expostulated. Rumors of the death of the .375 Ruger have been greatly exaggerated. The rifle is born, the ammo is coming along like a slow afterbirth. Somebody hang some pit! | |||
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That premature expostulation came directly from Hornady's website /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// "Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." Winston Churchill | |||
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MSRP: Whatever the market will bear, and I have already told the pusher man, about Jack City prices. | |||
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isn't one of the points of the 375 ruger, that it could be built and sold cheaper because it could be used on a standard length action without bolt modding? At $800 for the rifle and ammo at the same cost of the 375 H&H, I might be switching my mind back to the H&H for my purchase of a 375 rifle. If ammo gets cheaper than the H&H, I might still try to get the Ruger version. Either way, congradulations on the rifle. be sure to tell us how it shoots when you get a chance to shoot it. | |||
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It's extremely unlikely that the 375 Ruger ammo will ever be less costly than the .375 H&H as it's extremely unlikely that the volume of sales (long term) will ever match the old vetran! As to less costly actions.....the difference is about 5/16" length of bolt throw and Ruger already had an action to handle the 375 H&H. So does Remington and several others.....the Winchester classic is easliy modified to hold it.....IMO It's very doubtful that the cost of production was a motivating factor here for Ruger to bring out the new round.....as a matter of fact it seems Hornady has a lot more to gain here than Ruger.....as ammo sales are far more likely to prosper than rifle sales. If I had a choice between the old H&H offering and the 375 Ruger today, there's little doubt that the nod goes to the old vetran as it's going to be a very long time before the Ruger round is found in as many places on the planet as the 375 H&H......and the ballistic advantages of one over the other will never be understood by any buffalo any one ever shoots at! /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// "Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." Winston Churchill | |||
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what do you guys think about starting a pool, like office pool football ones, to pick the week that ammunition actually shows up on dealer's shelves? It would make the indeterminable wait more palatable. JMHO Rich NRA Life Member DRSS | |||
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i think it should be when rip gets home delivery...i say tuesday next week 577 BME 3"500 KILL ALL 358 GREMLIN 404-375 *we band of 45-70ers* (Founder) Single Shot Shooters Society S.S.S.S. (Founder) | |||
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Ya shore ya betchya.....da bikweens kuld win a superbole by den! /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// "Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." Winston Churchill | |||
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Hmmm, I'm wondering which will come in first...my lefthanded .375 Ruger, or the ammo?  .395 Family Member DRSS, po' boy member Political correctness is nothing but liberal enforced censorship | |||
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prof242, we can set up a pool on that too, if it will make the wait seem to go faster. If you can buy a CZ, right NOW! and all the ammunition and brass at the same time, who really cares about the Rugger? Me 'n Jeffe been hashing this out, better is only better if it's available. Like Erin Andrews might be just teensy-bit better than my lovely wife in the sack...but another night is going by and Erin still ain't come knocking at the door with overnight bag in hand. Rich NRA Life Member DRSS it's only better if it's available | |||
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Cathy (The nice lady in Hornady's sales office) sayes the first run is scheduled for the end of the month. Should start arriving early Feb. Les | |||
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Ron, Nice looking gun! Good to see Ruger is putting out quality products and in a timely manner. I think with Rugers new models coming out, and Winchesters demise, Ruger will be in a very good spot producing domestic CRF's. I figure the only thing I can seen needing to be added is a real recoil pad, and I'm sure the trigger needs to be treated to a stone and maybe the return spring lightened. __________________________________________________ The AR series of rounds, ridding the world of 7mm rem mags, one gun at a time. | |||
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Paul, Agreed. I will just use a slip-on pad on mine, and work on the trigger. If we asked them to glass bed it properly at the factory, it would probably double the price of the gun. Looks like I'll have time to do the glass bedding myself before the ammo gets here. | |||
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I got $5 that says Rip won't have any ammo until past first of March.....any takers? /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// "Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." Winston Churchill | |||
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Give me May 1 and you got a deal. It took them two years to put a shotshell slug on the market. | |||
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Ron, So are still practicing up here on occasion? Need to break that 375 in properly __________________________________________________ The AR series of rounds, ridding the world of 7mm rem mags, one gun at a time. | |||
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Paul, They ran me out of the state on an icicle. 6 winters in Alaska was enough for me. I'll be back on my own time to hunt Kodiak deer and commune with the bears in the balmy autumns. | |||
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Alberta Canuck, I got my pictures of a .375 Ruger Hawkeye on the ar.com site before Real Guns Joe did, even if his pictures were better than mine. I would love to beat him to chronograph data on the Hornady .375 Ruger factory ammo. | |||
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