I own a M77 Mark II Stainless / syn. in .308 and it is out of the box onle ofthe mostaccurate rifles I own. I have not done any trigger work to it. I also bought a M77 Compact in stainless / laminate in .243. While it is very accurate, and it is a beautiful gun, it does not have the inherent accuracy of the .308, ..... but I believe that to be becuase it is so short, having only a 16.5 " barrel. But it is one sweet rifle to carry in the woods. I have found the Rugers to be every bit the rifles that my Brownings or my Remingtons are. I do not feel them to be inferior in the least.Some folkshave their nitpicks, and wants on improving certain rifle aspects, but there are other poeple who can take a rifle and use it straight out of the box, and never tweak it, and have just as good of results. Some people are never happy with what they get.

It really depends on you , the shooter, and what you want and wheather or not you can be happy. It might need some trigger work, but others people might find the triggers very acceptable...

But regardless, they are great guns.

MET