The CANADIAN Ruger Gunsight Scout Discussion Thread

I finally picked up my scout today, after it's been sitting in a safe at the gun store since March. I am the first owner and it should have only been test fired at the factory.
As I was looking it over and cleaning it I noticed there was some rust in the barrel
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I am far from an expert, this is my first rifle, but I can't imagine this is normal. The general idea seems to be that rust is bad, but I'm not sure how bad this is. I don't see any pitting. I've already run some patches of Hoppes 9 through there, and enough dry patches that they come out clean. I'm going to do another cleaning routine on this and see if that has any effect.

Any advice you folks could offer would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
 
Stevebot-7 said:
I finally picked up my scout today, after it's been sitting in a safe at the gun store since March. I am the first owner and it should have only been test fired at the factory.
As I was looking it over and cleaning it I noticed there was some rust in the barrel
scout_barrel_by_stevebot_7-d531d1i.jpg

I am far from an expert, this is my first rifle, but I can't imagine this is normal. The general idea seems to be that rust is bad, but I'm not sure how bad this is. I don't see any pitting. I've already run some patches of Hoppes 9 through there, and enough dry patches that they come out clean. I'm going to do another cleaning routine on this and see if that has any effect.

Any advice you folks could offer would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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Is it rust or copper fouling???
 
Stevebot-7 said:
I finally picked up my scout today, after it's been sitting in a safe at the gun store since March. I am the first owner and it should have only been test fired at the factory.
As I was looking it over and cleaning it I noticed there was some rust in the barrel
scout_barrel_by_stevebot_7-d531d1i.jpg

I am far from an expert, this is my first rifle, but I can't imagine this is normal. The general idea seems to be that rust is bad, but I'm not sure how bad this is. I don't see any pitting. I've already run some patches of Hoppes 9 through there, and enough dry patches that they come out clean. I'm going to do another cleaning routine on this and see if that has any effect.

Any advice you folks could offer would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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May not be rust, could be anything - maybe even a barrel protectant coating that is just red tinged. I've seen locktite thats colored like rust - doesn't make it rust.

Use your wire barrel brushes. That ought to take that micrometer level of 'rust' off.
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Clean it, shoot it, shoot it more, enjoy it. :shotgun:



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gibbons3 said:
What's the lowest price anyone here has seen this rifle? I'm looking to get one and the lowest I've seen is $899
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I had mine up for sale for 800 and its still NIB unfired if ya want to buy it. Thats 800 shipped. I took the add down as im not really that much of a rifle guy, but was torn between keeping it and selling it. I have an extra 10 round factory mag too.
 
Coho said:
Use your wire barrel brushes. That ought to take that micrometer level of 'rust' off.

Clean it, shoot it, shoot it more, enjoy it.
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Yeah, it must have been fouling. I let it soak in some Hoppes 9 for a while and scrubbed the hell out of it, then tried some Break Free CLP, and scrubbed some more, and repeated to what I had originally thought was excess. My idea of normal fouling must have been far less than the truth, or this gun was particularly dirty. So far at least ten patches have come though significantly blackened after scrubbing, and double that with some discoloration. If this is normal I don't want to see what a really dirty gun would take to get clean.

Anyhow I'm really liking this rifle so far. I won't be able to shoot it for a while but I've been testing it with some dummy rounds and I've noticed more than a few failure to feed malfunctions. Every so often the head of the cartridge gets caught on the lip at the top of the magazine well, which prevents the bolt from catching it and pushing it out of the magazine. Also, at various times the follower rises unevenly and the head of the cartridge is just plain not high enough for the bolt to catch.
I would imagine those problems might very well be due to errors on my part, or due to the equipment being new, so do you folks have any advice to offer?
 
Stevebot-7 said:
Yeah, it must have been fouling. I let it soak in some Hoppes 9 for a while and scrubbed the hell out of it, then tried some Break Free CLP, and scrubbed some more, and repeated to what I had originally thought was excess. My idea of normal fouling must have been far less than the truth, or this gun was particularly dirty. So far at least ten patches have come though significantly blackened after scrubbing, and double that with some discoloration. If this is normal I don't want to see what a really dirty gun would take to get clean.

Anyhow I'm really liking this rifle so far. I won't be able to shoot it for a while but I've been testing it with some dummy rounds and I've noticed more than a few failure to feed malfunctions. Every so often the head of the cartridge gets caught on the lip at the top of the magazine well, which prevents the bolt from catching it and pushing it out of the magazine. Also, at various times the follower rises unevenly and the head of the cartridge is just plain not high enough for the bolt to catch.
I would imagine those problems might very well be due to errors on my part, or due to the equipment being new, so do you folks have any advice to offer?
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I had no issues cycling rounds through mine, but i used real bullets.
 
Stevebot-7 said:
I finally picked up my scout today, after it's been sitting in a safe at the gun store since March. I am the first owner and it should have only been test fired at the factory.
As I was looking it over and cleaning it I noticed there was some rust in the barrel
scout_barrel_by_stevebot_7-d531d1i.jpg

I am far from an expert, this is my first rifle, but I can't imagine this is normal. The general idea seems to be that rust is bad, but I'm not sure how bad this is. I don't see any pitting. I've already run some patches of Hoppes 9 through there, and enough dry patches that they come out clean. I'm going to do another cleaning routine on this and see if that has any effect.

Any advice you folks could offer would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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Just checked mine, it has that same stuff in it, whatever it is, and my gun is brand spanking new.
 
GunGuy34 said:
Just checked mine, it has that same stuff in it, whatever it is, and my gun is brand spanking new.
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I scrubbed mine out and didn't notice any flakes of rust so it's probably fouling or something else. It was pretty dirty.

I am probably just inserting the mags at a bad angle, or two lightly. The problem never seems to happen when I slap a mag in there quick, with either dummy rounds or live ones, only when I'm trying to be all careful. Can't wait to go shooting.
 
GunGuy34 said:
Just checked mine, it has that same stuff in it, whatever it is, and my gun is brand spanking new.
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Didn't look in the bore first, but cleaned mine when new, and got quite a lot of copper fouling out, I'm sure thats what we're all seeing. At least we know they're test-fired......
 
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