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Post by Ruger Redhawk on Jan 26, 2005 21:47:58 GMT -5
I got a beauty last week.Not seen very often. It's a Ruger M-77 All Weather chambered in 7mm08. On top of that it's a Ultra light.A hunting site buddy told me about it in Bossier City La.I made a call and it was still available.Sent a FFL and received it last Monday.I mounted a Older Redfield 2x7 widefield on it yesterday. Even the factory trigger is acceptable. Hopefully it will live up to my expectations. Why Ruger has only made limited runs of this chambering make me wonder. I think it would be a good seller.
Ruger Redhawk
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Post by Aussie Steve on Jan 27, 2005 1:33:53 GMT -5
Ruger Redhawk
Saw one of those 7/08 not all that long back the guy bought it a year or two back, also seen the same rifle in .260 remington that a friend owns he purchased it about the same time.I think Ruger has stopped chambering for that as well
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Post by "BIGTYME" on Jan 27, 2005 8:33:24 GMT -5
Good Deal  How about putting a pic up when you get a chance want to see this bad boy |
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Post by Ruger Redhawk on Jan 27, 2005 21:28:18 GMT -5
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Post by Foxsquirrel on Apr 5, 2005 5:18:06 GMT -5
Speaking of Ruger's and 7mm-08's, My father and I bought 7mm-08's last fall, Remington 700's, and outfitted them with new Ziess Conquest 3x9-40mm's his was the Mountain rifle with the magazine, that did not suite me, a month later I got a new model 700 CDL with a 24 inch barrell, and a r3 recoil pad, his is 22 inch Barrel with no recoil pad to speak of, it took us a lot of reloading, and testing and cleaning to get the guns where they shoot to our standards, Dad's gun shoot's a .292 inch (measured from the farthest outside tear) 5 shot group, basicall one hole using H414 with 140 grain Nosler balistic tips! AWESOME shooter, surprised me! I was trying to get mine to shoot 140 grain bullet's but they just would not group (it shot plenty good enough to kill deer) I had a hunch, so I went to the
shop that sells reloading supplies, and bought some Nosler 120 grain balistic tip's loaded what Nosler said was the most accurate load: 45 grains of IMR 4350, and my first 5 shot group was .304 inches just a little larger than my dad's unbeliviable group out of non broke in rifles, I was very impressed with my new purchase after a month or so of disqust trying to get one hole groups! I loaded up two boxes of cartridges even though dad tryed to get me to work on a 140 grain bullet load, I said no this is what i will hunt with after I get one with my yet to be bloodied 270 WSM, opening day I shot a decent 8 point at exactly 328 yards with the 270 WSM he went down like a bag of wet sand, when I dressed the deer the lungs and heart where vaporized, this was my first experience using balistic tips, since the gun is only one of 500 I put it up after that hunt, and used the 7mm-08, it took several days to get another deer, but I spooked a group of about 15 doe's and fawns because some where coming towards me on the right and I thought they were all on the left, of course they all checked out, but 3 of the big doe's stopped at the edge of the treeline about 300 yards away and made the fatal misstake of looking back (I could only get a tree to register on my range finder, after the shot at 284 yards) but that was about 20 shy of the doe I was shooting at, it was one of those WTF shots I took aim at a quartering away chest cavity shot, and squeezed the trigger, this bullet somehow made it past all the small branches and saplings between the deer and myself, and right at the deer's right hind quarter was a 1 inch pinn oak sappling, the bullet barely grazed the sapling, knocked off 2 inches of bark on the back side, and the bullet took an immediate left turn into the hind quarter of the doe, it took me a while to figure exactly where the deer was when I shot, being that it was so thick where she was, I saw a huge splotch of blood on a pine tree about waist high, and just beyond it was a huge blood trail (I would have given up on wasting my time had I not heard the slightest sound that resembled the deer falling, so that's why I looked for a good 20 minutes and found what I was looking for) I followed the trail, and stepped off about 150 yards and thought this deer has got to be out of blood, well the trail lightened up to a trickel and then I saw her laying down trying to lick her hind quarter, I walked off and let her expire, and came back and dressed her, to my amazement there was one small 7mm hole in the right place if you are going to shoot a deer in the hind quarter (which I was not trying to do) the balistic tip 120 grain bullet had broken her leg and taken about 3 inches of the bone to where I still do not know, and blew out her Femoral Artery, thus the huge blood trail, the gut's where not damaged, and all I could find was what massive trauma the bullet did to the Hin Quarter, and a small hole at the rear or the rib-cage, and another at the front of the rib-cage, when we skinned her out there was a massive hole in the hind quarter big enough to stick my entire fist in, and my fist is not small, I put it in all the way to the bone, the entire hind quarter was unusable, and the hole I found at the back of the rib-cage, and at the front showed no sign of bloodshot meat, but obviously what was left of that bullet was what made this funny path into the deer's neck and lodged at the base of the skull, anyway the first two deer of the season made me a beliver in balistic tip projectiles, I had lost 6 good deer the year before with my Ruger M77 257 Roberts, using 122 grain partitions, Also it made my dad a beliver that all I needed was a 120 grain bullet that travelled faster than his 140, and had less drop at distance, I recovered every deer I shot this season, only 13 verses 22 last year, but I did not hunt as much, sorry for the long story!
Now to my Ruger M77 257 Roberts, I need to have the Ruger Re-barreled, this gun has a huge gap between bullet and land's, which was a common failing to many Rugers made in the 70's, so accuracy is maginal at best. I have been pouring over the loading manuals, and what reloading supplies are available for what I want, then I will have to narrow it down to what ruger will chamber, I want to keep my 257 barrel, and possibly have a gunsmith fix it later on, but I have been seriously looking at 284, 260, and 280, I'm pretty sure that Ruger still does 280's, the other's I'm not sure about, and some reloading supplies are scarce, or I have to neck up 6.5-284 brass. And since I am retiring the aaaaawesome Remington 270 WSM model 700 tack driver because only 500 of the experimental mid 2003 guns where produced, and I can also tell it will end up being a barrel burner in the long run, it seems to make since to go with the 280, it shoots as flat as the 270, it's faster than the 270, hit's nearly as hard as a 30-06, and comes close to matching the 7mm Mag, and all from a 22 inch barrel so the Nosler manual says, but I want a 24, or 26 inch barrel if Ruger will do it, and some of my friends that have them in their Remington 700's, and from what I have seen they are as fine a shooter as the 7-08's with ton's more velocity if you reload which I do exclusively, plus the wide range of 7mm bullet's available verses going back to 257 Roberts and being limited on bullet selection in .257 caliber, and I look at it as replacing my 270 WSM without buying a new gun just 100 bucks for the rebarrel, then I can put my Kahles scope on which gun shoots the best the 280, or the 7-08, which will be hard to beat, but if I can get the 280 to shoot even close to the 7-08, it will deserve the Kahles scope for my longer distance hunting area's, and just leave the Ziess on the Remington 7-08?
Anyone have any advice, or comment, besides telling me I'm too long winded?
Thanks A Million!
The Fox
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Post by Foxsquirrel on Apr 5, 2005 5:30:20 GMT -5
Oh by the way RR, that 7-08 shoud shoot like you will not belive, if that is a big if you are a reloader, you may get luckier than my dad and I did working up a load, but we worked hard to get our rifles to shoot, but there is a load for every make and model gun out there, barrel length, COL, and many other things will determine your load but if you work at it 7-08's are some of the most accurate sport model chamberings that where made, sans some of barrel burner 6mm's and 6.5mm's, depending on barrel length, twist, and the measurement of you chamber with a "cahmber-all-bullet comparitor, if you have a hard time finding your load I bet I can help, belive me I have hours loading for the 7-08, and there are tricks on just about every caliber/gun, If you are an avid reloader I know that you understand this, and this post is a waste, but we live close, and a day off here and there I could help you with it if you have not already remided the load, + I have an official Police 100 yard shooting range right behind the house, on the power line, and it's flat! Just offering!
The Fox
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Post by Ruger Redhawk on Aug 6, 2005 11:27:00 GMT -5
Foxsquirrel, I just found your post.I haven't been here much lately. I appreciate your offer.I only got to try it out once so far.I was shooting Federal Vital Shok 140 gr Ballistic Tips.It was shooting pretty good.I didn't take my glasses. Stupid me thought I was adjusting the scope right.I couldn't see the dial. Anyway I went in the wrong direction.I tuned it back but ran out of time to finish sighting it in.Since then I had a friend do a trigger job on it.I was going to shoot it and the Alaskan last week when a storm blew in.For your offer I do appreciate it. It's just a little to long a drive especially with the price of gas.I'm all set up for reloading.I'd have to dig my bench out in the cluttered garage.LOL. I haven't reloaded in years.I've been going as a guest to a private range.I'm trying to get membership. If and when I do I'll be doing allot more shooting and reloading will be in order again.With these Federals I'm getting more then sufficent hunting accuracy.I know this Ultra light will never a target rifle and I would never expect it to be.
Ruger Redhawk
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