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Ramdon thoughts & memories of the diff's 'tween a Tang Safety R
uger 77 x Rem 700 after owning a dozen or more Ruger Tanger's & 2 70's & 80's era Remington 700's.
Both are push feed receivers, later & current Mk II Rugers with the 3 posiiton wing safety are CRF's,

Some early Tang'ers had Douglas barrels that are extremely accurate, Renm 700's have a lot of after market toys to play with...but generally shoot well from NIB.

Ruger 77's have a unique 45* angle receiver screw that pulls the reciver down into the recoil lug on every shot - that will need some easy cheap TLC to find the "sweet spot" , Rem 700's use a tradional 90* angle rreciver screw set up. Both guns should probably benefit from being 'glass bedded. & floating the barrel.

Ck me here but I believe I remember all Ruger 77's bolts are a one piece Handle and Bolt body milled out of bar stock, and the recievers are forged, can't say about the Rem 700's but they are easier & cheaper to produce & the bolt handle is WELDED onto the bolt body..and have been known to break off in some year models with more than an occasional report to that effect. Dunno about the current production's fix on the Welded bolt handle issue or history.

Ruger's "built in" double bridge scope mount system is stronger than any drilled and tapped scope mounts IMO, 2nd only to SAKO's which have a larger & longer gripping surface.

Rem barrels use an electically heated "hot button" reamer to cut the lands and grooves, and Ruger using a hammer forged reamer ...Fords & Chevy's argument, but Rem 700's are supposed to be decent to good to occasioanly excellent NIB shooters especailly with barrels that are within the first 50+ off a new cutter, while early Rugers were not always as accurate until tuned a touch...unless the reciever is a reddish plum color and several of mine were nigh onto impossible to make them shoot sub moa, but more than acceptable for minute of deer.

Both Ruger & Rem 700's have had a history of trigger issues...Ruger recalled their problem SR's, re desgned the trigger, and fixed all the recalled pieces...Remington I understand is still usuing the same designs - see plethora of after market triggers for a better trigger choice.

As far as the OP's QUESTION...I bought Ruger 77's first when I started buying my own guns as the VERY BEST VALUE on the market at the time, Had some great ones , had a couple I was not proud of, but of the 2 Rem 700 Samples I owned, I dumped them both times after a single season, for different reasons o each gun and never looked back. After I got into the Gun Industry, 1st as a Distributor's Rep & as a Factory Rep I either bought or shot nothing but Winchester Model 70's or SAKO's...and have added only CZ to that preference in the last 25 years.
Cheers
Ron

I have owned multiple models of both brands and hands down prefer the Ruger; and I believe with Ruger you get more for your money.

Never had a Ruger let me down; and as for accuracy......

I love my 700s... but for 1/2 the price, the tang 77 is a no-brainer for me.