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Old 05-24-2015 | 12:59 PM
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What specifically do you want to know about the Guide Guns?

The sights are basic, nothing fancy, but very well constructed and durable.

The stock, while quite comfortable, conveniently adjustable for LOP, and well designed to manage recoil, is ugly than the north side of a southbound bobtail mule. Easily replaced, however, although that adds expense and gives up the LOP adjustability.

The Ruger M77/Mark II/Hawkeye platform isn't the best for precision but they're more than sufficient for hunting. My Guide Gun is a sub-MOA to 1MOA rifle from the bench, although I don't shoot it there much, and I've only played with the Hornady DGX factory rounds so far.

The shorter barrel of the guide gun is very handy, and well balanced. Gives up a little in terms of maximum horsepower, but it's really not bad.

The Ruger integrated ring mount and Ruger rings are one of the more solid mounting platforms for heavy recoil rifles.

It's kinda surprising that none of the Ruger Guide Guns have extra recoil lugs. I have greater faith in the durability under recoil of the laminated stocks than the African Rifle walnut stocks (American Walnut and 4,000ft.lbs.+ don't mix). I inletted the tang area slightly on mine, and will be bedding with devcon steel to help reduce risk of cracking.

I bought my Guide Gun as a "benchmark" for a couple rifle projects, so I probably won't be keeping it long, but I'm fairly fond of this .416Ruger cartridge, so I might hang onto it.
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