Rebarrel vs buy a Tikka

[Turpentine21]

I like Ruger's! I have an old tang safety 30-06 that I have had great history with but the trigger needs help. I'll check out Wolf springs when the knee surgery is over and I can get around.
Our weather just started to turn to ice pellets and some snow flakes just started falling right before it got too dark to see.
I hope you have a great hunt stdt7mag.

I had a Ruger M77 270 with the tang safety. It was a very good rifle but the trigger, like yours, needed some help. The last M77 i got in I ended up changing out springs and honing/polishing the internals to fix the trigger pull but it was a slow, tedious process.

 

[Old Rooster]

Yep the Mark series are way easier I am told. But I have a lot of history with this old Ruger. Killed my first Elk with it and many after that, had to have the barrel replaced and man it shot so much better. I'll never sell that rifle.

 

[Turpentine21]

Yep the Mark series are way easier I am told. But I have a lot of history with this old Ruger. Killed my first Elk with it and many after that, had to have the barrel replaced and man it shot so much better. I'll never sell that rifle.

I botched a bedding job in mine as a teenager. Stupid is as stupid does and I was stupid. Later I needed some money and sold it. I killed a trainload of deer with that rifle and won many of our little unknown distance $5 ante Sunday evening neighborhood shootouts. It was a cold bore killer. I really wish I had it back. I later bought one of their polymer cutout stocked stainless rifles but I never could warm up to it. Sold it and got a Model 70 Sporter in 270. I won't ever sell or part with it.

Rugers to me seem to give a bit more felt recoil due mainly to their stock dimensions and my physical characteristics. I get this with some of the Tikka's as well. I like to put a good recoil pad on them and cut somewhere between 1/8-1/4 inch of pitch into the stock. Or add a pitch spacer. Cuts way down on cheek slap and muzzle rise.