I picked up a new 77/22 about 6 mo. ago and am real pleased with its performance. With a cheap 3x9 Bushnell scope it will consistently do .5" groups @ 50 yds. with good ammo. I have yet to get my 10/22's to do as well. And this is out of the box. No accuracy mods at all. I did clean the trigger pull up a little bit.