Ruger Guns Please Help

Let's put a word in for the Ruger American rifle

My .243 is not wearing a bipod in that image.

I’m sure glad this thread got started. Never heard of Ruger before. Looks like they make some nice stuff. Will be checking into their products.

I think they make a respectable product, have collected a number of 10/22's......which offered an easy platform for the shade tree wannabe gunsmith to customize. Not sure that would have been possible with other rim fires on the market. Manufacturing and design innovations made stand out from other rim fires.

It's possible that Ruger could be blamed for rimfire ammo shortages over the years.....had it not been for the 10/22's and the Mark series, the growth of ".22 weekend plinkers" in America would have been significantly less.

Electricmo said:

Never heard of Ruger before.

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Ruger - on guard at our daughter's house in Missoula.

Ruger - Shh, be vewy, vewy quiet. I'm hunting wabbits!

Ruger - far too sophisticated to drink from the toilet like a normal dog.

I've never seen a Ruger product that didn't do exactly what it is supposed to do. I have 2 Ruger American rifles, a 10-22, and an old Mk1. The wife has the LCP.

For the most part Ruger makes decent quality guns selling at working man's prices. But for almost every product they make there is something comparable made by someone else that I like better. But if forced to only use Ruger products I could be OK with them.

I will say that over the years I've had more QC issues with Ruger products than all others combined. By a lot. I had to return one S&W pistol back to the factory back in the late 1980's and other than Ruger have no issues with any other firearm. About 1/2 of the Rugers I've owned over the last 40 years needed some attention. Some had to be returned, some just needed a magazine returned, some needed a part replaced and Ruger sent me the part, and others just needed some minor tweaking.

But in every case Ruger made it right. Rugers customer service gets a lot of well deserved praise for taking care of customers. That is probably because they get lots of practice doing it.

The only Ruger that would be my 1st choice in it's category is the 10/22. But not the standard carbine. Ruger currently shows about 80-90 different variants of the 10/22 on their website.

Ruger® 10/22® Autoloading Rifle

There are lots of other, better options other than the standard carbine. Just be aware that it may need some work. But there is no other 22 semi-auto that I'd rather have than a 10/22.

The GP-100 series of revolvers come very close. I still have a very slight preference for Smith revolvers. But this is a virtual tie for me.

I own a number of Rugers, and I think it'd be hard to go wrong. I've got a number or MK II and MK IV pistols, and like them a lot. The MK IV has become the AR-15 of the .22 pistol world. A number of companies specialize in parts to change them out to be what you want to make them. The Ruger single action revolvers are iconic, either in .22 or one of the larger bores. Their semiautos have a solid following as well in the 1911 platform. Although discontinued and replaced by other offerings, the SR9 and SR9c are great pistols and can be found on the used market. The PC Carbine and PC Charger are great rifle/pistol variants, and magwells can be replaced to take a number of different magazines from the Ruger and Glock lines. Finally, don't forget Ruger Red Label shotguns. Beautiful and functional over/unders.
In short, there are a lot of fans of Ruger here. They are generally strong, sometimes overbuilt, and will handle whatever they're fed and look good doing it. you could probably take a catalog and throw a dart at it and hit a winner.

I have a MKII and a MKIII 22lr pistol. Great guns for plinking or target shooting. Also a Blackhawk in 357. And as others have already stated their customer service is excellent. You can’t go wrong with a Ruger for a reasonably priced gun.

.308 Norma said:

Ruger - on guard ... <pics, etc>

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Beautiful!!
(and that's a compliment coming from a cat person!!)

Best all around value revolvers, IMO.

MK IV, great modular 22 pistol, lots of aftermarket support and one can change uppers with a push of a button. I would splurge for the stainless steel model. They are great pistols and well built.

Ruger has made some neat rifles.
The single shot falling block rifles.
As lite as .22 Hornet to .450 Win Mag
Bolt action model 77's in allot of rimfire and centerfire calibers
.22LR to .22 Mag, .17HMR
.22 Hornet on up to
They also made a boltaction .357 magnum and .44 magnum in the model 77.

Ruger made a .44 mag semiauto actually severaltypes
One that looks like a 10/22 with a shotgun like tube magazine and box mag version as well.
A mini-14 style called the model 99/44 .44mag called the Deerfield.
The model 96 leveraction box mag that looks like a 10/22 with a lever came in .22LR, .22Mag, .17HMR and .44 mag

Then the mini-14 that came in several calibers (.222Rem and .223Rem, 5.56nato,and some were modified to .17 Rem!)
Im betting a missed a whole slew of rugers like their version of the AR-15
They make a PC-9 & PC-40 carbines

I have never bought a gun just to have one made by a particular manufacturer.

Buy the least expensive old beat up Ruger you can find and use the money you save for a celebratory dinner with your loved ones.

A Mark ii and Blackhawk are must haves from Ruger. If you can find a Service Six or a Speed Six get it. These revolvers are way under rated.

gunlaw said:

A Mark ii and Blackhawk are must haves from Ruger. If you can find a Service Six or a Speed Six get it. These revolvers are way under rated.

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Those are great choices.

Armybrat said:

Those are great choices.
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That's a nice Service Six. My LGS had a nice looking one similar to your a couple of years ago, but all used revolvers in my area are always at a premium and I didn't quite have the funds

J-Bar said:

I have never bought a gun just to have one made by a particular manufacturer.

Buy the least expensive old beat up Ruger you can find and use the money you save for a celebratory dinner with your loved ones.

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I'm the complete opposite of that, and I've certainly set my sight on a particular manufacturer if they made a gun type that held my interest.

IMO, spending money on a beater just to scratch a name off a list is a waste of money. Might as well buy a rusted solid Colt 1860 just to say I have a Colt. Example here.

The celebratory dinner thing? I've been doing that several times a year for years on end. Someone in my family always has something to celebrate. I just paid for one this past Sunday and got another planned for May, and June, and . . . imagine all the ammo I could've bought!

Lycidas Janwor said:

I'd like to buy a Ruger product and I'd like ideas as to which gun I should buy. I don't have a 10/22 but that's the only gun that comes to mind when thinking about buying a Ruger. Any suggestions as to a good gun from Ruger that you recommend buying is appreciated. Flip side, if there's a gun you think I should steer away from, that's ok too as it's not going to stop me from buying something from Ruger. Thanks again

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I've had my 10/22 going on 52 years. The only thing I have done to it is clean and oil it and keep it well fed on a diet of .22 LR. It's not finicky on what it eats and has always served me well.

I have "carry format" guns from more than a few manufacturers, kimber, sig, ruger, remington, but when I grab a carry gun, it typically says Ruger on it, my wife prefers her sigs.

My favorite and most accurate revolver is a GP100 4" 357

My watchlist guns right now are a Blackhawk or a Redhawk in 45 Colt.

To be fair, and yeah, I know this seem a bit weird, I am also looking for an original planet of the apes Hi-Point 995 Carbine as a donor gun for a project and I will pick one up when I find one local and cheap enough (but this is another story for another time).

Dave

chicharrones said:

IMO, spending money on a beater just to scratch a name off a list is a waste of money.

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My point exactly. But I don’t think the OP has expressed a preference for handgun vs rifle vs shotgun. When OP states a preference I might be able to make a specific recommendation.

J-Bar said:

I don’t think the OP has expressed a preference

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If I remember correctly (and I might not) OP just expressed interest in Ruger firearms because they had just bought Ruger stock.