Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles 2008 Lipsey Ruger RSI 708 Rem

Picked up this one today - owner said he fired one round, hard to say tho….it’s in nearly perfect condition.





Anyone else have a Lipsey 708?

That's awesome. Would love one in 6.5x55.

Very nice. I’d sure be happy to carry that.

They are out there!

It’s hard to find info on this 708. I contact Lipsey and got the info and this.

So Lipsey guns have their own unique serial number?

I don’t know that. But it could make sense tho.

How did you come to that assumption?

They have a unique model number and they may have a sequential block of serial numbers, but I don't think that they have unique serial numbers.

The Lipsey's non-cataloged Ruger RSIs that I have seen or owned have had the standard Ruger serial number format of 3 numbers, a hyphen, and 5 numbers.

987-65432

They can. I have one of the hundred Ruger RSI's in .275 Rigby that were made for the Dallas Arms Collectors Association. The serial numbers are DACA ### which reflects who it was made for and doesn't follow the standard Ruger numbering pattern.

I don't own a 7mm-08. But recently I fell in love with a left-handed Dakota 76 in that caliber that had been customized by Dietrich Apel (Paul Jaeger's nephew, Ruger employee & the owner of New England Custom Gun). Unfortunately someone with way more money than me blew my pathetic bid out of the water. For a lefty, rifles like these are unicorns so when one slips through your fingers it makes you sigh wistfully for a while...

But I'm a fan of that rifle type & caliber combination so I'm glad you were able to land a good deal. Your new purchase gets a thumbs up!

That's sweet!

They can, but did they on any of the multiple non-cataloged runs that they've made for Lipsey's ?

Ruger could give them unique Lipsey's specific serial numbers, something like LIP-00001 thru LIP-00260, but none of the Lipsey's stainless RSIs that I've owned had unique serial numbers, they had the standard xxx-xxxxx serial number format.

When you have a Ruger question that the Ruger CSR can't or won't answer, call Rody's 'cause someone there will either know the answer or they'll know someone who knows the answer.

Rifle on top is fantastic. Details?

Thank you I hope to sight it in soon

I shot my first deer with a Ruger #1 in .303 British so I have a nostalgic fondness for that round. The rifle on top is an Uberti Courteney Stalking Rifle chambered in that caliber.

https://www.uberti-usa.com/cartridge-rifles/1885-courteney-stalking-rifle

I pulled the factory Weaver quarter rib off of the rifle & installed the iron sights accessory base in its place. So my .303 British Ruger #1A is scoped with a fixed 6x42 Leupold & my Uberti I use without optics. Both of them work really well on deer in the southeastern woods.