My projectish gun

After calling a mate to ask his very knowledgeable cousin to find me a wood blued 308 working gun he found me this nice ruger m77 mk11 and i got it for a song(Cheers Rob!)
obviously it has had some modifications..... but otherwise in beautiful condition for its age 1993.

My plan is to try find a nos stock and put a classic nice scope on it.
This I'd like some help as to what to put on it, ideally it would be light and mid quality I wouldn't mind something fixed power as this gun is only going to shoot 150m max and punch through twigs leaves etc in the bush.
I've got a budget of $300 ish for the scope.

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Any input you have is valuable Cheers for looking

@Blisters i know where a perfect scope is for this but it but you just sold it

Haha nah upgrading the scope on my 223

Occasionally some fixed x4 power Leupold m8's pop up under your budget. Or for a tad more you could get a gloss finish 2-7x33 which would be in keeping with the rifle.

Nice-the sort of rifle I'd like for a project one day-right calibre too

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Originally Posted by mawzer308

Occasionally some fixed x4 power Leupold m8's pop up under your budget. Or for a tad more you could get a gloss finish 2-7x33 which would be in keeping with the rifle.

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Agree totally. Vx2 2-7 would be the perfect old school scope to 150m.
I have had a couple for 30 plus years and they are bomb proof and ultra reliable

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Originally Posted by mawzer308

Occasionally some fixed x4 power Leupold m8's pop up under your budget. Or for a tad more you could get a gloss finish 2-7x33 which would be in keeping with the rifle.

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Agree totally. Vx2 2-7 would be the perfect old school scope to 150m.
I have had a couple for 30 plus years and they are bomb proof and ultra reliable

Very hard to beat a fixed power scope in the 2 1/2 to 4 power range I have a 2 1/2 power Khales that I pick up cheap a few years ago
a friend borrowed it and the rifle it's on and shot 2 deer at 200 and 260 metres one shot each I haven't been lucky enough to shoot
any animals that far but can hit 6" gongs at 200 all day, you don't need enormous powered scope to shoot animals at 200 metres
just buy a scope with good glass.

I found an m8 compact not that long ago, can’t recall where, but it was bugger all $170?

You can probably retrieve that stock with a bit of imagination - pistol grip would be straightforward and then a decent bit of something for a fore end, put on right, would look better than new.

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Originally Posted by 7x64

You can probably retrieve that stock with a bit of imagination - pistol grip would be straightforward and then a decent bit of something for a fore end, put on right, would look better than new.

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shhhhhh....... it might come up in the "pay it forward" thread ;)

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Shaved down the antler to how i like it, put a vx11 3x9x33 ultra light leupold on, and sighted it in @100yrds.
Very happy with how it turned out! Its nice and light and shoots better than me, i think its a very handsome rifle now

I don't know if my eyes are failing me, but is there some type of pattern on the barrel? Like the twisted hammer forging pattern on the Baikal single shots?

Yes it has the hammer forged finish looks cool

Cool - haven't seen a ruger like that before. Learn something every day

I bet you could stain the forend piece using the condys crystals recipe floating around..... it would look primo then. I also own one of the old m8 4x scopes and really rate it highly...yip typing that has made up my mind it coming off the x39mm and going on the 08...lol

That come from somewhere down Waikato way eh
Theres an old falla down there that got rid of a few guns and he’s done something original to all of them normally involveing bone antler pig tusks etc looks like one of his it’s definitely his style my good mate brought several of his guns at auction a couple of months ago

Shit mate that turned out great! May as well make it your main rifle

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Shit mate that turned out great! May as well make it your main rifle

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Yep it now has pride of place in the rack! Hopefully account for a few next week too..

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That come from somewhere down Waikato way eh
Theres an old falla down there that got rid of a few guns and he’s done something original to all of them normally involveing bone antler pig tusks etc looks like one of his it’s definitely his style my good mate brought several of his guns at auction a couple of months ago

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Yeah i think his name was graham? Some of the guns didnt look too great... but he sure looked after them

That’s the one mate my mate brought a few some really good deals
He got among other things a marlin lever action 44mag wood blue with mag shortened to (5 rounds) flush with the stock
And an awesome suppressor
The bottom part of the lever had been replaced with a pig tusk pretty cool looking actually
Apparently he’s done something to most of his rifles to make them his