New .22 Hornet Rifles
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Litetrigger
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Modifying the Ruger 77 Hornet to make it reasonably accurate has become a cottage industry.
Bwana John
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What does it entail?
gpb
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Anschutz appears to catalog at least one new 22 Hornet rifle. I don't know if it's really available or not.
LINK TO ANSCHUTZ 22 HORNET
https://www.anschutznorthamerica.com/store/p74/1771_E_Single_Shot.html
LINK TO ANSCHUTZ 22 HORNET
https://www.anschutznorthamerica.com/store/p74/1771_E_Single_Shot.html
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GooseGestapo
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-Typically, reducing the trigger pull is first. It was the last thing I did to mine, so results were immediately obvious.
-Free floating the barrel and glass bedding the action helps.
-The two piece bolts are problematic. Mine required an improvised “C” ring spacer to reduce the “slop” and allow the bolt to “cam” the fired rounds from the chamber, otherwise extraction was difficult.
-Chamber needed polishing. Barrel needed lapping.
Current rifle is a 77/22 RBZ (stainless with gray finish, 24” heavy barrel)
First one was a 20” bbl “Carbine”. The chamber was terrible! Oversize, and not concentric. Accuracy was poor. I gave up on it and traded it for a Springfield Armory M1911 in .38Super…
Litetrigger
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Mr. GooseGestapo pretty well nails it all about problems with Ruger 77Hornet in post#7. The bolt spacer has been stardard treatment for smiths who earn bread and beans semi-curing its typically outrageously bad accuracy. But other factory faults, especially bad chambers, play their part as well. Frankly, It would require a concentrated effort to deliberately make a rifle shoot that bad. I was happy to get rid of the one I had and would never recommend another.
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Crosshair
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Replacing the trigger on mine solved all the issues I was having. From 4.5 pounds to 1.5 pounds. I could have gone lighter, but found that my consistency of pull went out the window.
marksman13
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And of those, the No. 1 isn’t available. It was a one time run back in 2015 I believe.
SwampWolf
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C.Sharps Arms New Model 1885 High Wall chambers their single-shotrifle in .22 Hornet, albeit on the pricey side @ a few dollars under a couple of grand.
