No matter which you chose you should be happy. I own or have owned about every brand of rifle and they will all shoot. Some shoot better than others and some are smoother than others ect. Right now I`m convinced that CZ`s are the best on the market, but given your 2 choices I would go with the Ruger. Rem. rebarreled my .17 Rem. mod. 700 and it shoots like crap plus they screwed up my trigger while they had it so I po`ed at them, but I do think that the m-77 is better quality. As for scopes I`ve got abt. 30 Leupolds. I have other brands I get on trades but won`t buy anything else. I`ve owned 2 Burrius scopes and both were junk out of the box. A 3x9 scope is all you will need for any kind of big game hunting and unless you going to do some long range shooting on varments it will do there also. At present I have a fixed 12x on a .22-250 and a 2 1/2x7 on my .17AH, but the rest of my varment rifles wear 3x9 or 3 1/2x10 Leupolds. My stopping rifles and my muzzle loader wears 2 1/2x scopes. I`ve never owned a Zeiss but hear they are great glass but their warrent is not as good as Leupolds. As I said you can go to far wrong no matter what you deside.
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