I currently have a ruger m77 mk II that shot out of the box ragged hole groups at 100 yards.
Congratulations then on winning the Ruger M-77
"One in a Million"lottery. I have owned 3 different M-77's in my lifetime (still have one) and I have had the opportunity to shoot a good many more. I've personally never seen one straight out of the box that would group 3 shots tight enough to be covered with a silver dollar. The 7mm mag M-77 that I still own has had a trigger job and the barrel free floated and even now it still averagesabout a 1.75 inch group at 100 yards. Before the trigger job and the barrel floating it's average group was about 2.5 inches.
I would NEVER buy a tikka again.After about 100 rounds the magazine started to fall out of the bottom of the action.
Wow, what an amazing coincidence. The guy who owns the only hundred yard 1 ragged hole shooting standard unmodified Ruger M-77 on earth also just happened to own the only Tikka I have ever heard ofin which theclip just started falling out from routine use. Dang, what are the odds? With your record of always defying the odds you should go to the track and bet 1000 dollars on the longest shot in the race. Compared to the two longshots you have already hit the horse race would be a mortal lock.