I bought a Ruger Ranch in 350L for a few reasons:
1. I wanted a low recoil rifle for newbies/youths to enjoy shooting and be able to deer hunt with if they wanted. (So far my kids only like to fly fish, but they’re still young, and I have a nephew who’s interested)
2. Ammo availability. I love the 30-30 & the 35 REM. But 30-30 ammunition is sometimes available and 35 never is. I think the Ruger American Ranch in 300 BLK would have been ok for my purposes, and ammo is available for it, but the gun store didn’t have a 300 when I purchased the 350L. Likewise for the 6.5 Grendal.
3. I might go to Ohio to hunt sometime
4. The cartridge looks cool and I thought it would make a nice woods rifle for 100 yard shots
5. I wanted a Ruger American
Yeah I passed up a nice Remington 141 for a fair price recently because I was unable to find 35 Rem ammo anywhere
Mike,
Daughters boyfriend, mentioned above, picked up a 14 in 35 a few weeks ago at auction. $250-300 if I remmber right. Never drilled.
Used, but not abused.
Perfect in my opinion, love those old guns that show honest use, and
the dings are the little ones you get no matter how hard you try.
You can be certain a gun like that hunted hard.
Didn't ride a SxS to a heated blind in 1955.
