I doubt Ruger would've made these had it not been for Randys putting up the capital, same as he did for the left hand American 450s (which are sold out now). This rifle checks a lot of boxes for me........stainless/walnut, 20" barrel, classic crf action with no plastic parts, 3 position safety, no safety blade trigger, flush hinged floorplate, heck I even like the Ruger Phoenix engraved into it. The RAR 450 is okay (I have a 16" lh model) but this one's much mo' better in my eyes. One thing that would be icing on the cake for me would be a set of sights that come on the Alaskan rifle. I'll have to measure the barrels and see if it could be retrofitted.
