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American rimfire available with a wooden stock.
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Strange to me that they would come out with a rimfire, with ammo being in short supply. I will not buy a new one in these current conditions. Anything that I buy will be re-loadable. miles
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American rimfire available with a wooden stock. Thanks Jim ... any word on pricing ... looks to be birch of some sort. That could make me part with some pennies if I were so inclined. Saw Kecatt's post and it appears that the wood comes at about a $110 premium .... for birch .... hmmmm ....
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Good that they're offering it, however for the $$ I'd opt for a laminate from Boyds. Now if we can just get them to make a port side RAR!
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The email notice I got calls it a hardwood stock so it's probably the same birch as 10/22's. MSRP is $449 compared to $339 and $369 for the various synthetic stock models. They don't show it as being any heavier, 6.1 lbs vs. 6 lbs for the synthetic.
The synthetic models are being offered on gunbroker in the low-mid $200's so I figure once this gets to everyone's shelves you could probably pick one up for $300 or less.
Not really an earth shaking announcement as rifles go but I have to again tip my hat to Ruger for continually bringing out new products or new versions of existing ones. Most companies announce a few new models or variations once per year, Ruger seems to give us something new to gawk at about once per month or sometimes more often than that.
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perhaps the wood will make it a bit more palatable, but its sad to see a company that made its fortune designing, building, and selling guns that had classic, traditional styling and tough as nails designs in an era when white-line spacers, glossy finishes were all the rage, suddenly join the race for who can build the cheapest, most plastic guns along with the "in" models of the day. I can only imagine what people like Len Brownell, the great stockmaker who designed the original stocks for the 77 and Number 1, would be thinking about something like the RAR !
Perhaps there will arise another new company, a new ruger if you will, who will cater to traditional good looks and classic designs that work. Oh for the days of the likes of Win. 75 Sporters, Rem. 513s, not to speak of the all time great Win. 52.
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perhaps the wood will make it a bit more palatable, but its sad to see a company that made its fortune designing, building, and selling guns that had classic, traditional styling and tough as nails designs in an era when white-line spacers, glossy finishes were all the rage, suddenly join the race for who can build the cheapest, most plastic guns along with the "in" models of the day. I can only imagine what people like Len Brownell, the great stockmaker who designed the original stocks for the 77 and Number 1, would be thinking about something like the RAR !
Perhaps there will arise another new company, a new ruger if you will, who will cater to traditional good looks and classic designs that work. Oh for the days of the likes of Win. 75 Sporters, Rem. 513s, not to speak of the all time great Win. 52. And Weaver steel scopes. Oh the good old days!
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Perhaps there will arise another new company, a new ruger if you will, who will cater to traditional good looks and classic designs that work. Oh for the days of the likes of Win. 75 Sporters, Rem. 513s, not to speak of the all time great Win. 52.
with the advanced manufacturing abilities with cnc processing i have wondered why Winchester doesn't bring back the 75 and do it right and affordable. the 52 was reproduced for a while but i wish they would keep it going so the prices were more affordable.
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perhaps the wood will make it a bit more palatable, but its sad to see a company that made its fortune designing, building, and selling guns that had classic, traditional styling and tough as nails designs in an era when white-line spacers, glossy finishes were all the rage, suddenly join the race for who can build the cheapest, most plastic guns along with the "in" models of the day. I can only imagine what people like Len Brownell, the great stockmaker who designed the original stocks for the 77 and Number 1, would be thinking about something like the RAR !
Perhaps there will arise another new company, a new ruger if you will, who will cater to traditional good looks and classic designs that work. Oh for the days of the likes of Win. 75 Sporters, Rem. 513s, not to speak of the all time great Win. 52. There are classic steel and walnut .22s out there: CZs, Ruger 77/22s, Annies, Coopers, and Zastavas. Nice ones often come at a price that the general market won't pay; ask Remington. The CZs are very nicely made and stocked, just as nice as the models you mentioned except maybe the 52, and are great shooters and good buys. The machine work on the RAR I looked at was pretty nice and in general, looked nicer than similarly-priced Marlins and Savages. If the wood-stocked RAR sells, a walnut model won't be far behind, maybe from Lipsey's, but it won't be $300.
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... Perhaps there will arise another new company, a new ruger if you will, who will cater to traditional good looks and classic designs that work. ... Uh yeah ... it's called Ruger .... They still make their "old" line of rifles .... but have added another line. How is that bad? How is making a product folks will buy bad? Using your logic, most firearms manufacturers would be defunct by now.
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Good that they're offering it, however for the $$ I'd opt for a laminate from Boyds. Now if we can just get them to make a port side RAR! Yes to the lefties being needed. I have an 8yo that I'd love to get an RAR for. Might have to go Savage or if I splurge a CZ...
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milespatton - yes indeed...one has to wonder Ruger's wisdom in bringing this out now w/ the .22LR shortage. Do they know something the rest of us don't? I've a big stash of .22S given to me that I'd spend the money on buying a rifle for rather than one in .22LR just to have something to shoot at my local range. The Henry pump rifle comes to mind...
Instead, I've been upgrading my 10/22's while HOPING the LR shortage ends sometime in the rest of my lifetime (68y/o) LOL.
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It's just a d*mned shame that Ruger can't bring the 10/22 and/or RAR out with a decent piece of walnut attached.
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They still make the Sporter with an "American Walnut" stock. Now whether that's decent walnut is anybody's guess. They make this "Altamont" with French walnut as a distributor special for Lipsey's. Plus TALO has a walnut Mannlicher model in blued and stainless. I have this "birch Sporter" model with a 22" barrel and have been toying with the idea of finding a take off walnut sporter stock for it.
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You should have known Ruger was willing to play the "cheap and ugly" game when they came out with the "boatpaddle" stock. Even with all the ugly stocks out there today that is still in the top 10 for the ugliest stock ever award. JMO.
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I like this new wood stocked American version, but I don't think I'll be buying one, I'd still spend the extra money on a CZ Myself.................Hb
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Perhaps there will arise another new company, a new ruger if you will, who will cater to traditional good looks and classic designs that work. Oh for the days of the likes of Win. 75 Sporters, Rem. 513s, not to speak of the all time great Win. 52.
Ruger has done a lot to keep the classic, good looking line of guns alive. The market simply doesn't support it. Travis
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Was late to the synthetic stuff, being a walnut/blue steel kind of thickheaded ol' bastard, but I tend to give credit where it's due. The idea of an affordable (but well made) rimfire that's easily adaptable to both young and older shooters, fills a need and Ruger saw that, made it happen. Didn't like the RAR when I first looked at one, bought one anyway. It is now one of my favorite rimfires, as issued. If the look/feel of plastic gets to botherin' me, can always pick up something with a nice walnut handle and shoot that. Even if it doesn't hold a candle to the RAR, downrange? My opinion, they can stick that birch stock where the sun she's a no shine, especially at a price increase.
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