Over the years, I have purchased several Ruger products, pistols, revolvers, rifles. I have been mostly pleased until recent years. When they first come out I purchased a Ruger American Ranch in 450 BM. It did just fine, a nice light weight hard hitting deer and hog gun. I got a RA Ranch in 5.56 and this is where the decline begins. The magazine was terrible, the stock was worse, and the zipper bolt drove me nuts. Switch out the stock with a Boyd’s Spike Camp and AR mag well. Improved the accuracy but still had feeding issues, and it did not like hard primers.
Sold it at a bargain price. Picked up a RA Rimfire. Again, feed issues. Replaced the magazine but the feed issues remained unless I was using 15 round mags. Accuracy was just OK. I’ve got a Mossberg US 44 and a Ssvage MkII that cost less and perform 10X better. I replaced the plastic stock with a Boyds and accuracy improved but still lacked. Then I see Ruger comes out with an Improved Gen II Ruger American Rifle. I figure, “OK” they worked out the issues. Stock is still plastic but improved, feed problem fixed, no more zipper bolt, and an addition of a three position safety. But now, no matter what factory loaded ammo I use and even some of my hand loads, I have a failure to fire rate of anywhere from 20% to 66%. That means, it is 100% unreliable and that is 100% unacceptable.
It really seems like management is actively trying to strangle Ruger.
Sent the rifle back to ruger. They replaced the firering pin assembly and test fired using 15 rounds of Hornady ammunition with no failure to fire.
I have not taken out of the box yet. I guess Im just soured on Ruger. Can’t trust it will go bang everytime i pull the trigger.
Oh well it was a good run I suppose.
All Ruger seems to offer anymore are just OK firearms at a premium price point
All manufacturers make mistakes. Yes, it can sour you. Go try the gun though before you write them off completely.
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Finally took the ruger out of the box today and put the scope back on. Had it out to the range. Well, the scope stayed relatively true one off by 2.5 inches. As far as the issue with misfires, I experienced zero out of forty (reloads). I will try factory loads next time i take it out.
i think i’ve made the deciision there are only really 2 rugers i must have… will want to buy again at this time.
I still want a ruger 1911 night watchman.
and of course more ruger 10/22s… as i may build variants of other rifles just cause i like the 22
The only Ruger firearms I would consider are the 10/22, although I see more and more plastic parts and “cut corners” on those as well.
The Mark IV still seems to be OK, but i dont believe they are on par with the Mark II.
The Super Wrangler is a much better gun than the Wrangler obviously in appearance it is not as refined as the Single Six, and mechanically it could be better.
the 10/22 is one of the few id buy of ruger too… they are just solid rifles.
in fact psa had a sale on them yesterday and today for 169.00 can not pass that up at that price…
I bought a Ruger SFAR and when i got it home and inspected it I saw the forward assist was missing. I got CS pretty quick and they sent me the parts within days but thats piss poor QC.
yeah that is… but it show syou that even the other major companies have issues with qc from time to time
I don’t need another 10-22. I already have 4.
wow… considerably more than i have. i have 1, which i converted to a fake ps90 bullpup 10/22 by hightower armory… so when i saw a 10/22 on psa site for 169, normal price of 299.99 i just was beside myself.
Do you like Hightower Armory’s stuff? I’ve looked at their kits before and have been tempted.
HaHa! That’s what I have in mind for this one I’ve got here!
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Sad to see RUGER get infested by modern management. Boeing for generations was the leader for the finest aerospace products. In just a few years of “DEI” they became a clown show with actually dangerous products.
I do. Thus far i have two of their kits. The PS90 Ruger 10/22 conversion kit, which is quite accurate surprisingly for a conversion bullpup kit, as you may see below. It comes with a fake suppressor shroud, so i thought i’d show a few photos of it both on and off the 10/22. so here it is :
and I bought one of their Hi-Point Carbine Conversion kits back when they first came out with it. I chose to buy a hi-point 40 cal carbine, as i didnt have much that shot 40 and figured it would be good to have some representation of them in a carbine caliber, to go along with my .40 s&w FNS pistol. That way at least i have a pair that will run together. lol. Anyways, I loved the “futuristic look” of what it did to the hipoint carbine, and well seeing as those things are pretty hard to kill, cause they do run pretty hard from what ive read, I figured it would be a fun toy. So I chose the Arctic / cement look as it reminded me of something off of star wars or another sci-fi snow look.
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those are some slick lookin 10/22s. i like the very top two, ive never had one with a full stock like that on any rifle, how do you like that to a sporter style stock?
I like it. The full stock ones are called International. The stainless and laminated one was only sold by Walmart years ago. The blue and walnut one belonged to a friend that died in an automobile accident 3 years ago. His wife called me and said she had 4 guns to sell to pay off some bills and would I sell them for her. I bought all 4 because I knew I would pay more than anyone else. That was one of them. What I find unusual about it is the lever under the trigger guard is the magazine release.