aka108
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Have read that the AK's, the SKS's and Saigas all had very large chambers to aid in reliable chambering of the round when the piece was filthy. I owned a Ruger 77 MK2 in 7.62x39 and always used handloads that were neck sized only in the reloading process. These reloads always chambered with no difficulty in the bolt action Ruger. I really became tired of the 77 as it was less accurate than the Russian designed rifles so I sold it. Had about 500 reloaded rounds for the 77 left after the sale and felt they all would slide easily into the chambers of the Russians. Really thought the Ruger would have been close tolerenced next to what have been called sloppy chambered AK's and SK's. I couldn't begin to get the rounds for the 77 to chamber in a Arsenal AK, a Norinco SKS or a couple of Saigas. So the Ruger 77 was really sloppy big chambered and Ruger made the barrels of these in 308 as opposed to the 310 bore size of the Russian cartridge. No wonder the accuracy of the 77 in 7.62X39 was lousy. I think Ruger made the mistake of rushing this caliber rifle to market and simply cobbled it together in a hurry and dumped any good testing and neglected quality control.