Page 14 and I still can't believe that someone cloned a Ruger 10/22. Anyone with a touch of gray in their hair will remember when Ruger was "the cheap guy" on the block and investment casting metal was looked down on.
Bill Ruger was a genius. In an old pre-WW2 National Rifleman magazine, about 1939 or 1940, Bill took a Savage 99 action, bled gas from the barell and I think, took it in a tube to operate the action, the tube, replacing the spindle of the rotary mag!
I recall when Sturm, Ruger brought their first product to market - for less than US$40, the semi-auto .22LR with the 10 round mag in the handle. I owned the later heavy barrelled target model with the adjustable sights.
Over the years, they have made some lovely over and under shotguns.
When the .44 mag semi-auto rifle and the 10/22 came out, I should have scraped up the $$$ and bought one of each.
In rifles, I've owned a .30-06 full size; a .308 and a .257 Roberts, both the light weights no sights, just for scopes. I also had a No. 1 rifle in .243.
Ruger, the company, have been innovators from the very beginning. All that I have now if my 30 year old 10/22 carbine.
