77/ pic's

[RJ556]

Here are a couple of pics of my 77/357 and 77/44. The 357 is in the wood stock. The 44 was in that stock, but when I found that the 357 fit perfectly into it even though I two point glass bedded it to the 44, I decided to leave the 357 in it. Ruger fudges a bit on the advertised weights. The 44 weighs 7.5 instead of the advertised 7.25 pounds. The 357 weighs 7.75 instead of the advertised 7.5 pounds. The wood stock adds another .25 pound and the Ruger rings and scope another pound. That gives my wood stocked 357 a total of 7.0 pounds. It is nice and solid and steady at that weight. The scope is a vintage Weaver 3x, which is about perfect for the ranges of these carbines. And if I want I can switch it over quickly to the 44 and all I have to do is re-zero. Even if the 44 is ,25 pound heavier than advertised, that's OK. I wouldn't want it any lighter!

 

[JFB]

the walnut and weaver would look great no mater what caliber action.

Very nice setups

 

[RJ556]

Thanks JFB. When installing the scope, I must remove the XS rear sight aperture to provide clearance. Once my rear sight is zeroed, I loctite the right windage screw. When I remove the aperature, I remove the left windage screw only, count the number of turns, down, until the aperature bottoms out and write it down. When I re-install the aperture, I run it all of the way down, then back out the number of turns that I wrote down, then install and tighten the left windage screw. My Aperature sight is now re=zeroed. I've been doing this on many of my rifles over the years and the system works. Having that extra scope ring mounting point on the 77/?? rifles, sure comes in handy to keep a sight base mounted.