I have or have had a total of 19 Rugers I can think of, from my first (original .44 carbine) to my latest, SR-22 pistol. It includes center fire and rimfire rifles, revolvers, pistols and one shotgun. They have always served me well and I have not had a single problem with any of them (other than a bit of simple work to get a 1B to shoot the way I thought it should.) You might think I'm a Ruger fanboy. A couple of times I looked at the Wranglers in the gun stores, just looked at them in the glass case. It always seemed like the kind of thing I'd buy just because it didn't cost much and couldn't be too bad..... but looking at them alone was enough to dissuade me from buying one. To me, they just have the appearance of junk. I've never handled one, but something about my entire adult lifetime being very involved with guns and with manufacturing, just looking at them set off the alarm bells.
