NOE .225-55-FN In a T/C Hornet

rmrix wrote: Hey Ken, or anyone.OK, Just wondering if there is a picture of the bullet. Save a thousand words maybe. Interesting you mention a Manson standard reamer. A friend has a CZ. It is much more accurate than my Ruger, accross the board. Wondering why, and checking around, what I think I know to this point is that for some reason the sammi spec chamber, which Ruger feels they need to conform to, is huge. Both very large in the neck and is long throated. So far, to get any kind of accuracy from the 77 I have to single load due to the long overall cartridge length. I've thought of setting the barrel back and rechambering ...Buying a reamer too! Better to sell it and buy a CZ. But...I like to buy American. It aint life or death so I will think on it a few more years.  So, maybe the right cast bullet will keep me happy. MichaelRix

The R77H out of the box usually shoots about 4 to 6 moa, and the factory HAS been contacted by several of us here Ruger fans ... they tell us the Hornet just shoots about that, and learn to live with it.

Upon inspection , I concluded ( 3.5 seconds ) that the bedding is nearly impossible on the 77H....  it tends to bounce off the magazine well surfaces , .... it is about as well controlled as an M1 carbine, .... or a 10-22 R (g) .... it never bounced the same from shot to shot.... such a cute little gun, however, that one or two of us decided to try Someting....   by the way, the Ruger barrel looked real good on mine, with a borescope, from the factory... also I know some 77-22 that shoot pretty good, so..

With the original 77H action & barrel, first I sunk a standard PILLAR into the rear tang screw and the front guard screw ....  this still didn't provide a recoil feature that was consistent, so I sunk a recoil lug into the bottom of the barrel about 2 inches ahead of the receiver, and Devcon bedded that into the barrel.   Then I Devcon bedded that into a matching well in the stock; this feature slides in and out of the stock when the stock is removed.

With a load of H4227 and a Hornady 50 gr SX, that gave me 1.0 moa, so I played with that for quite a while, and really enjoyed the little thing.  I seated the bullets out to touch the lands, and shot it single shot (g), but never did try it thru the magazine I just shoot pop cans anymore.

Then being winter, I tried some real slow loads for indoor shooting lead, and managed to bulge the barrel.  Just for fun, I hacksawed the barrel back behind the bulge, and it still shot 1 moa !!   but was very noisy, so I saved the stock and action; a friend now wants to resurrect it and I have found a nice Sako target barrel off a rimfire (g) ... kinda back to the Hornet roots... be interesting to see how that works out.

I will have to put another recoil feature in bottom of the barrel, but having a Bridgeport makes that almost fun.  almost.

hope the above helps... would you like me to send you a false barrel / chamber cut with my reamer for you to play with ... I would be glad to tinker with your rifle if we could think of some way to improve the chamber for you... but try bedding it first, at least my factory barrel was worth saving, it was the bedding that was flopping around.

regards, ken campbell hey I tried to add a photo of my stock mods...  what changed, I remember putting in photos before .... I think .... do I have to put photos in photobucket or some such first ??