Is This the End of The Ruger Red Label

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Rumour has it that the Ruger Red Label has been dropped in all three gauges 12,20 and 28.A visit to their web site shows no Red Labels listed.
 
Did Ruger actually make the Reb Label or was it produced by another gun maker for them.why i ask is that the Red Label and SKBs look alot the same to me and SKB has gone out out of bussiness.
 
Ruger manufactured the Red Label.One of its claims to fame was that it was the only O/U manufactured in the United States.
 
28 gauge said:
Rumour has it that the Ruger Red Label has been dropped in all three gauges 12,20 and 28.A visit to their web site shows no Red Labels listed.
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Not a rumour it seems 28ga. It almost fell off the table last march when they discontinued the gold label series but the red held on.
Apparently they took orders for them up until 3 -4 weeks ago and have outstanding orders back to July which they just cancelled.
I am sure we will see something official soon but what I have read so far is they only sold 1000 total in 2011 worldwide in all gauges so that did it.
Too bad :mad:
 
28 gauge said:
Ruger manufactured the Red Label.One of its claims to fame was that it was the only O/U manufactured in the United States.
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It might have been the only mass-produced o/u still being manufactured in the U.S. but Galazan and Kolar are still making them.

The Red Label was too expensively priced to be a cheap gun and too cheaply made to be an expensive gun.
 
I lucked out a couple of years ago and picked up an older one, although new, at a local gun shop in Naniamo. Nice, light and fast handling.

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The entire problem with the Red Label, was trying to market a poor man's gun as a quality shotgun. I've handled and shot many of them, but for the price they were asking, you might as well drop a few hundred bucks extra and go for a Beretta. Ruger never came half way to the quality, performance, or longevity, yet was looking to the same price range.

I still shoot my original Beretta o/u from my sporting clay days 20 years ago, as none of my buddies neither own nor shoot their Red Labels.
 
Claybuster said:
It might have been the only mass-produced o/u still being manufactured in the U.S. but Galazan and Kolar are still making them.

The Red Label was too expensively priced to be a cheap gun and too cheaply made to be an expensive gun.
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Right you are Claybuster.I believe the Galazean A10 just came out a few years ago.Not sure about the Kolar.

Most likely when it was introduced it was the only United States O/U.At least I remember them advertizing it as so.No one would lie in an advertizement now would they.:)
 
28 gauge said:
Right you are Claybuster.I believe the Galazean A10 just came out a few years ago.Not sure about the Kolar.

Most likely when it was introduced it was the only United States O/U.At least I remember them advertizing it as so.No one would lie in an advertizement now would they.:)
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Kolar's been around for 14 years according to their website. Galazan made o/u before the A10 but they were custom high-end shotguns and very expensive. I don't know when Remington stopped producing its last o/u or whether it was even produced in the U.S. Like many of the American makers they may have imported their guns from off shore too.

Imports seemed to have been the death of the Red Label on both ends. The Brownings and Berettas were only slightly more expensive and the flood of low cost Turkish imports took away the bottom end of the market.
 
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I can still remember when my uncle walked in the door with his 20 ga. Ruger probably about 25+ years ago. He had one of the very first ones in Canada with fixed IC/Mod chokes and the blued receiver. It was one of the first guns I ever shot as a kid.
 
I will be attending the 2012 SHOTSHOW here the 3rd week of this January, will get the low down on the Red Label, as it is the one and only Ruger shotguns I own, that will never leave my possesion, as it is the slickest 28ga I have ever handled! cheers Dale Z!
 
zywina said:
I will be attending the 2012 SHOTSHOW here the 3rd week of this January, will get the low down on the Red Label, as it is the one and only Ruger shotguns I own, that will never leave my possesion, as it is the slickest 28ga I have ever handled! cheers Dale Z!
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I haven't used mine all that much,;) yet but from what use I have given it, I've found it to be an excellant field grade gun:).
 
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