Originally Posted by Big Stick
Ruger RAR with AICS footprinted DBM......................

Got one en route for my 9 year old for Christmas- his first CF rifle. Already got the SS 6x to throw on top. I'm thinking he'll be pretty thrilled. I've had too many problems with the RAR CF rotary mags to endorse the original RAR as a utility rifle out of the box, but the AICS bottom "metal" removes my only real beef with the original. I ended up putting my rotary mag RAR in a MDT ESS to get away from the rotary mags and into AICS nirvana. The stupid things just shoot.