Ruger 77/22

[drover]

How much can be done to my 77/22 to make it more accurate? Or is it simpler to sell it and buy a CZ or Tika? Not getting into benchrest, but want something that shoots groups and not patterns.

Bill

There are a lot of comments posted and I am not saying that any of them are wrong but if you want the easiest, simplest way to an accurate 22 sporter then buy the Tikka T1 or the CZ of your choice.

As mentioned above you can easily spend $200 - $600 on the 77/22 trying to get it to group good and at the end of the day you still have a rifle worth $600 - $700, so you will be out the money spent on upgrades and likely will still not have a rifle that shoots as good as the Tikka T1 or CZ,

I have had a half-dozen CZ 452 that all grouped well after some bedding, trigger work, etc. I am seeing mixed reports on the CZ457 but more good than bad, they have fixed issues that caused complaints on the 452's. I had an opportunity to handle one of the 457 sporters the other day and was very impressed with the quality of workmanship and the way it handled.

My first choice would be the Tikka T1, I have had two of them and they are amazing out of the box performers at a very reasonable price, both were accurate enough that they give my Cooper 57M JSR a run for the money when it comes to grouping.

drover

 

[bobm]

I have owned both Rugers. The little sporter was pretty accurate, not so for the laminated stock varmint.


drover said:..... "I had an opportunity to handle one of the 457 sporters the other day and was very impressed with the quality of workmanship and the way it handled."

Same here two months ago, so I bought one. Great workmanship and GREAT accuracy, too. Target was fired the other day in still conditions at 200 METERS with ELEY Target.

 

[Cbrown3020]

2nds on CPC worked wonders on my 77/22 in KHornet. Highly recommend. Very reasonable also.

 

[Esabatm]

3rds on CPC. He turned my VBS into a tack driver and his prices are very reasonable.

 

[plinker4life]

Here is my 77/22 I re-barreled several years ago. It was a typical 77/22 shotgun patterning rifle prior. I started with a Factory 20" 10/22 hammer forged Bull barrel with the spiral honing. Some of you may remember "Que" from the good old days of RFC. He set the barrel back and reamed it with a EPS reamer and cut the extractor slots. Ths was a v-block model but I did glue the reworked barrel back in. As you can see it groups pretty good @50 with a good lot of Black box or center x.

 

[Lougler]

How much can be done to my 77/22 to make it more accurate? Or is it simpler to sell it and buy a CZ or Tika? Not getting into benchrest, but want something that shoots groups and not patterns.

Bill

After bedding and replacing the trigger helped slightly, this ammo was head and shoulders better than the 5 others I tried.

 

[Frankm]

I had my trigger done and tested 8-10 different ammos. 2-3 shot well with 1/2” or less 50 yd groups, 3-4 were ‘OK’ and a couple were terrible.
I put the 2 piece bolt shims in from Trigger Shims . Com and all the ammo shoot better; everything more consistent but some brands still performed better. I ve since done the shims to a 77-17, 77-44 and another 77-22. They re inexpensive, give them a try!

 

[V509]

Another vote for trying bolt shims

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