I have 2 of the compact Rugers. An M77 and a Hawkeye. The M77 is definitely a shooter. The Hawkeye, I haven't found something it really likes yet. It's a 308, and right now I think I am shooting the Barnes 135 grain with it. I had Gundoc bed it and add a recoil pad so I could shoot it off a bench, and then got mad and bought a lead sled. Don't know why they can't make benches to shoot off of that fit tall dudes.