I don't like tang safety Rugers. Iengine turnedthe bolt on a buddy's and I personally think the bolt design is a nasty conglomeration of every bad design idea used by other manufacturers. The striker is a rem 700 style, requiring adime/nickle and ahardpiece of steel in aviceto take the tension offand remove. They should have used a model 70 style witha striker detent built in. I didn't care for the bolt release, I found it awkward and clumsy compareda m70 or rem 700.Its got aclaw extractor, but it is not set up tocontrolfeed. Its got a button ejector, should have gone with a fixed orsemi-fixed, given theclaw extractor. The fit of the extractor and band on the specimenI jeweled was atrocious,they were waaay too tight, andwere a pita to disassemble and reassemble compared to any m70 or Mauser I've ever touched, and they madethe bolt bind.

Suffice to say, I wasn't impressed, and I wouldent own a tang safety model. The Mark II's are a different ball of wax altogether, I haven't had one apart, but the ones I've handled seem to address some of my main issues.