ColtPythonElite
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I would be OK with a 2" gun
New Ruger 77/44
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CoalTrain49
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Well, I didn't say "inherently accurate/inaccurate calibers". I said inaccurate straight wall cartridges. As in a comparison to straight wall vs bottle neck. But I know what you are trying to say.
CoalTrain49
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How does it shoot with factory ammo? Did you have to slug the barrel to shoot cast bullets?
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someguy2800
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I think the reason we have come to expect 44 magnum rifles to be inaccurate is because they all have stupidly oversize bores as per saami rifle spec. If you want to see a sub moa 44 magnum, or any other straight wall pistol caliber rifle you just need to get a contender barrel from Match grade machine or Bullberry barrels with the correct bore diameter.
someguy2800
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Does someone sell a .431" diameter jacketed bullet? I know you can get cast in whatever size you want.
I don't know.
In .44, I shoot mostly cast bullets.
However, in the case of this 77/44, I shoot jacketed because I am shooting through a suppressor and I don't want as much work cleaning it.
FWIW: this is the 77/44 I have: http://fullysuppressed.com/ruger7744.html
In .44, I shoot mostly cast bullets.
However, in the case of this 77/44, I shoot jacketed because I am shooting through a suppressor and I don't want as much work cleaning it.
FWIW: this is the 77/44 I have: http://fullysuppressed.com/ruger7744.html
someguy2800
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The current price is listed at that link.
I bought mine about 10 or 15 years ago at a gun show, used.
Kind of funny about that gun. I bought it at a gun show, used. I believe the dealer was from out of state. Almost as soon as I bought it, a guy at another table said: Did you just buy that ? I said yes. He said, John's Guns makes great suppressors, but the accuracy is so-so. He said, I build custom rifles and I can make that thing into a great shooter. So we negotiated a deal. So..................The gun was transferred to him from the dealer I bought it from. Then he did the work. Then the gun was transferred to my dealer. Then I started the Form 4 process................ By the time I actually took the rifle home, it was literally like two years. By then, I had almost forgotten about it. I got it, stuck in the safe and there it sat until this past spring. I bought that rifle, and didn't even fire it for probably a decade. And FWIW: after all that, it shoots OK, but nothing spectacular. Although I will admit that even now, I haven't shot it very much and have made almost no effort to work up a load for it to try to get outstanding accuracy out of it. In fact, I think I have only tried one or two loads in it.
I have a tendency to get into something whole hog. Experiment and play with it, read and research everything I can find about it, until I get bored with it and then move on to something else. Only to get excited about it again, a couple years later. This past year I got into shooting my lever actions a lot and then got really into longish range rifle shooting (out to 1200 yards), then I got really big into .300 AAC Blackout; so shooting something like this hasn't grabbed my attention since I rediscovered it. I guess I should also add that I shoot several times a week. It isn't like I don't shoot much and didn't have time to shoot it. I shoot all the time. However, at some point, this rifle will become the center of my attention and I will spend several months shooting it 3-4 times a week, trying all kinds of different bullets, powders, loads.................
If I understand the rules correctly, this is a legal rifle for Ohio deer hunting. I am not really a big hunter. I buy guns because I enjoy shooting. I occasionally hunt every few years. But I thought about using this to take a deer just because.
I bought mine about 10 or 15 years ago at a gun show, used.
Kind of funny about that gun. I bought it at a gun show, used. I believe the dealer was from out of state. Almost as soon as I bought it, a guy at another table said: Did you just buy that ? I said yes. He said, John's Guns makes great suppressors, but the accuracy is so-so. He said, I build custom rifles and I can make that thing into a great shooter. So we negotiated a deal. So..................The gun was transferred to him from the dealer I bought it from. Then he did the work. Then the gun was transferred to my dealer. Then I started the Form 4 process................ By the time I actually took the rifle home, it was literally like two years. By then, I had almost forgotten about it. I got it, stuck in the safe and there it sat until this past spring. I bought that rifle, and didn't even fire it for probably a decade. And FWIW: after all that, it shoots OK, but nothing spectacular. Although I will admit that even now, I haven't shot it very much and have made almost no effort to work up a load for it to try to get outstanding accuracy out of it. In fact, I think I have only tried one or two loads in it.
I have a tendency to get into something whole hog. Experiment and play with it, read and research everything I can find about it, until I get bored with it and then move on to something else. Only to get excited about it again, a couple years later. This past year I got into shooting my lever actions a lot and then got really into longish range rifle shooting (out to 1200 yards), then I got really big into .300 AAC Blackout; so shooting something like this hasn't grabbed my attention since I rediscovered it. I guess I should also add that I shoot several times a week. It isn't like I don't shoot much and didn't have time to shoot it. I shoot all the time. However, at some point, this rifle will become the center of my attention and I will spend several months shooting it 3-4 times a week, trying all kinds of different bullets, powders, loads.................
If I understand the rules correctly, this is a legal rifle for Ohio deer hunting. I am not really a big hunter. I buy guns because I enjoy shooting. I occasionally hunt every few years. But I thought about using this to take a deer just because.
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someguy2800
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I do the exact same thing. I go back and forth between 4 or 5 different hobbies as my mood suits. I obsess over something till I have it figured inside and out then wander off to do something else. Drives my wife totally nuts.
CraigC
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Factory Speer 270gr Gold Dots. I don't shoot cast bullets out of the microgroove "S" model. I save them for the Ballard-rifled Cowboy.
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