338 Winchester Magnum was one of the best all-around big-game cartridges. That was enough of a recommendation for me to buy a Ruger M77 chambered in .338 back in 1981. The rifle was my faithful ...

338 Win. Mag., no less. When we trooped out ... In keeping with one of Bill Ruger’s founding principles, the M77, first and foremost, had been an everyman’s rifle. But that kind of economy ...

It’s a battered Ruger M77 Guide Gun in .338 Win. Mag. that I acquired through some bartering. It’s just the type of rifle that sheds off any sort of sentimental attachment that someone would be ...