Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Rimfires Ruger American rimfire ??

Just visited a local gunshop and they had a Ruger American in 22 lr for sale............never seen one before.
Any feedback on this rifle???
Stock looks adjustable for LOP.
Price was $270

Thanks

Gunblast.com has a review up on their site; looks like a neat rifle for $270 and the ability to use 10/22 mags just makes it better.

Per gunblast's table the 50 yard accuracy doesn't appear to be stellar.

Jerry
http://gunblast.com/Ruger-American22.htm

Realguns.com has an article also. The accuracy of their rifle appears quite good!
Link

I think the accuracy in the GunBlast article looks good. ~ 0.5" with Wolf and ~1" with Fed Bulk .... how is that bad for a SUB-$300 rifle? One fella on another thread got his for less than $250 .... Not sure what you expect??

I was thinking the same thing. Under an inch at 50 yards with bulk pack sounded pretty good to me. I called my local Sportsman's Warehouse and they didn't have any in stock yet.

My only comment on this rifle, as well as other recent new offerings from many manufacturers, is the craze toward packing in a bunch of extra adapters for stocks, grips, magazines, etc. I would prefer they lower the price of the product and let people decide for themselves whether to buy the adapters. I tend to lose all the "extras" after a while.

My BIG question ... did they make the action large enough to accommodate the the 17 WSM .... Not that I want a WSM, but it would have made goodly sense ... also probably would have made the rifle much heavier too??

Damn, Ruger's gettin' just as good at making ugly guns as Savage. That thing would have to shoot .25" 50 yd. groups, clean itself and pack out game to be worth suffering that much ugly !

it's great accuracy, and about what you would expect from a good example of a savage or CZ. you'd need to go full-on match chamber target rifle to do better. also, without stepping on any toes, at least as good as you'd do with a 77/22, and probably better.

I hope they make on in 17 HMR. Looks like just .22 mag and LR for now.

The 17 HMR is in the works.

From the gunblast review:
"that is chambered for the 22 Long Rifle, 22 Magnum, and to come later, the 17 HMR cartridges."

I would love to see a lefty model in .17 WSM.

I'd like one in 22 mag.....Just because!

Virgil B.

Great. I've wanted an HMR for a while. Need to pick one of those up.

"I think the accuracy in the GunBlast article looks good. ~ 0.5" with Wolf and ~1" with Fed Bulk .... how is that bad for a SUB-$300 rifle?"

Yeah the Wolf (MT?) and the PMC Match look good for a factory barreled Ruger, But I base my statement mostly on the;

CCI Mini-Mag HP 36 1.37"

CCI Velocitor HP 40 1.75"

Which I have shot quite a bit of, as I use minimag's for my go to (unsuppressed) hunting round.

"it's great accuracy, and about what you would expect from a good example of a savage or CZ. you'd need to go full-on match chamber target rifle to do better."

Presently have four CZ's and one savage (and too many Ruger 10-22's), have had others. Match ammo aside... around 1 1/2 inches for minimag's is not that good at 50 yards. Now this is an example of one and Twentytwo's can be pretty selective in the ammo they shoot well. Just looked at the real guns article and his groups are quite good... shot at 100 yards.

Like that it uses 10-22/77-22 mag's. Was wondering whether the barrel changed out easily ala 10-22/77-22 but it appears not... "The Ruger American Rimfire's 22" barrel is a tight press fit and pinned to its receiver."

If I can find one around $250 I would definitely give it a try.

YMMV

Jerry

At 50.....



Same bullet at 100. I guessed and went up 4 clicks....

Rifle is as ugly as my Sako Quad at ~ half the price. Ugly rifles tend to get used.

So do purdy ones .... at least my purdy ones do ... NO such thing as a safe queen in my safe.

Checked several shops in my travels over the weekend, none in yet, but some expected in shortly. Will give one a whirl when I can find one. Also like that they use the 1022 mag, because those are something I am well stocked with.

Did find a CZ 455 at one shop and it called out to me. So I fetched it along. No CZ rings, nor any at the other shops. So did the same thing I did years ago with the Romanian 1969: Made a set of cheapo 3/8" rings work by removing some metal for a "tighter" clamp.

Wish they came D/T'd for Weaver bases, though, which is becoming pretty much standard for many American made rimfires.

Fired about 40 rounds of bulk ammo through the CZ over the weekend, Pretty spiffy thus far. Will take it to the range this week and see what it's capable of with some better ammo.

Wanted a 452, never quite got around to getting one.

When I can get my paws on a new Ruger, make a good truck gun, since we can't hunt with semis here in PA and I don't wanta mess up the handle on that new CZ.

This rifle does look a whole lot like a synthetic stocked Sako Quad. I'm not in the market for a .22 right now, but I'm glad Ruger is marketing a bolt .22 in this price range, good to see an American company doing this instead of some crappo import.