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While hunting for .22 ammo I stumbled across a single example at my LGS, $295 out the door. My only plastic stock, the more I play with it the more I like it. Worked the bolt while watching the boob tube with some fine lapping compound on the lug.
My only issue is that I ran out of adjustment of the rear sight and still shoots low. Contacted Ruger and they're sending a taller sight.



Targets were shot with an old Kassnar 4X, crosshairs are so thick they cover the center of the target, a lot of guessing involved.



If this is a success for Ruger maybe Remington and Winchester will take notice and once again offer an American made affordable .22.
I really like the shape of the receiver, does not look like a club.

Happy camper
Rich

Ugly, but, for the money and accuracy you get for the money....not bad.

Rich,

FWIW, I ran into the same issue with the sight. I took mine off as I'll just use a scope anyway.

just about all my .22s have glass on them so I wanted to keep irons on this one and force myself to do a little stand up shooting. I hardly ever do that, have an 8 inch steel plate at 50 yards and with the poor adjustment I average 7 out of 10 standing. If I could actually see that darn plate might do better.
Getting old ain't for the weak ;-)

Rich

LMAO! your right there huntsman I can't argue that..As the old saying goes "A man gets what he pays for"..................Hb

AS soon one of those hits the shelves locally I can see one of those being one of my new sage rat varminters...

Thanks Ryszzard for posting those targets, show that the little buzzards can be accurate also...

if they are that accurate at 50 yds, they will be just perfect for sage rats and head shots on them out to 125 yds... just like my CZ will do... but on the Ruger one can load up a batch of 25 round 10/22 mags and snipe away at them for a good 15 minutes...before stopping to reload and let the barrel cool...

I really want one of these rifles now: inexpensive, accurate, with decent bolt travel and a decent trigger. Not much not too like for under $300. I have yet to see one locally, though. I've checked two Sportsman's Warehouses and several other local shops. Hopefully Ruger will have more of them out for the holiday sales. I think one of these would fit nicely beneath my Christmas Tree

Glommed onto a BX25 mag today at a show, but zero American 22s available.

Fancy pricing on what little 22 fodder was offered. Rem. Thunderbolts for $60 per brick. WW Wildcats and 525 Federals at $75.

I'd make note of that store.. and after all of this shortage/hoarding crap is over with, I'd make sure I never ever spent a nickle in that place...

Gun show

Exactly....I agree..............Hb

Looked at a couple of these rifles over the weekend, but just couldn't bring myself to take one home. They seemed ok, but the design didn't scream "Buy Me".

On the full sized example I looked at, the barrel bore HEAVILY on one side of the barrel channel.

May be worth waiting for Ruger's second batch...

I noticed that when I bought my .243. I looked at the models in 3 different stores, most had the barrel properly centered but a few had them bearing to one side or the other - usually the left.

That's why I paid a tad more for one I could see instead of saving a few bucks but getting a crap shoot via mail order.

first blood. rings and bases courtesy shortactionsmoker....thanks darrik

Adorable (former) bunny

Looks to be gut shot.

yup. Preliminary rough sight-in was on a cottonwood stump. I'll fine tune it on paper today. Then I'll try some Headshot City.....

I'm starting to like the sounds of these new Rugers...I'll have to keep my eyes open

I just bought a pricey 10rd magazine for my Sako Quad.
I now have ruger 10rd rotary magazine envy.