bsa: Both of my gopher/PD shooting pards have one of these rifles in .223...dependability is usual Ruger...never an issue...accuracy is excellent..unable to discern it from Remington Varmints.
One of my pards had his re-barreled....took about 12K rounds shooting hot and dirty to wreck the factory Bbl...( we got it so hot one day that it cooked off a round...)
The trigger is good and if I had any complaints about the rifle it would be the weight....most shooting is done off bags so it is a non-issue, relatively speaking...


Here is one...getting deployed on the killing fields.... grin

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