Ruger American Ranch in 350 LEMON
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ecadwallader
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Finally got this rifle functioning… ended up buying a PTG bottom metal, and a take off rotary magazine stock. Inletted the stock and it feeds perfectly from mdt aics mags. Way deeper into this rifle that I would have imagined, but ended up with exactly what I wanted for a light youth gun.
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RAR or just plain Ruger American? I have over 1000 rounds of .223 through my Ruger American, and would have sold it, but it is incredibly accurate with handloads. The barrel gets awful hot after emptying the 6 round mag, but i was really impressed for a $225 gun. I may have got a good year? Things probably 10 years old.
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- Southern Vancouver Island
Does removing the blade from the trigger simply entail removing the blade with no other adjustments? When I first got these rifles I considered removing the blade but sort of forgot about it. I find the accu trigger style often confuses new shooters.
Removing the blade helps for folks used to standard triggers, like me. Going to a lighter pull trigger spring on the Ruger Americans helps a bunch more.
I removed the blades from all 3 of my RAR units ( 450 BM, 350 L & 300 BLK) I fitted the 450 with a Timney. All work well fer me.
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There are more than a few very good used rifles, built on far superior actions and with very nice stocks, in the "little" 9.3X57 available. It is a far superior to the 35 Legend as a hunting round, very easy on the shoulder, and several dealers on here offer them for half the price.
I understand the development of the Legend, but do we have any jurisdictions that allow only straight wall cartridges in Canada?
Ted
PS: Yes, I had one in 30-06 for a few weeks, but the quality was not nearly up to Ruger standard, and it didn't stay long.
I understand the development of the Legend, but do we have any jurisdictions that allow only straight wall cartridges in Canada?
Ted
PS: Yes, I had one in 30-06 for a few weeks, but the quality was not nearly up to Ruger standard, and it didn't stay long.
Agreed, I owned one for a short while. They are a shoddily made rifle. I won’t own another. As Why Not said, there are plenty of quality used Husky’s and Parker Hales available in this country. Why waste money on a clunker like the Americans for a budget gun when there are quality pieces available for less!
ecadwallader
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The recoil on the 9.3x57 (19.8ft/lb) is quite a bit more than the 350 legend (10.06 ft lb). The purpose of the rifle was a light low recoil first deer rifle for youth.
elimsprint
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Get a Howa Mini in 6.5 Grendel and have the best lightweight low recoil rifle around
Hits like a .243, recoils like a .223 and shoots flat like a 22-250!
ecadwallader
CGN Regular
Get a Howa Mini in 6.5 Grendel and have the best lightweight low recoil rifle around
I do like the 6.5 Grendel, but I don’t know how it would do below 20” barrel. At 16”, I think full powder burn would be an issue, and the loss of velocity would reduce the longer range benefits of it over the 350.
elimsprint
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Get the mini with the 22" tapered barrel, I'm getting 2700fps with 123gr SST's and CFE223.
Now there's something ^ you don't hear too often.
Does the PTG bottom metal fit the American stock as a drop-in? Is it actually metal?
I upgraded my Ruger Ranch in 5.56 from the sloppy AR-magwell to a Ruger-made AICS-pattern magwell. I love it now; the AR-mag version was only something I tolerated because at one time I had several rifles using that mag, and plenty of mags on hand. Sold those rifles over time: once I realized that the Ruger was my only AR-mag rifle, switching it to AICS mags (which I already have plenty of) was a no-brainer and I was well-pleased with the results.
The constant bashing of the Ruger American sounds strangely familiar. It almost seems as though some folks buy these guns even though they already "know" they are not good...just so they can whine about them. Back when the Remington 700 SPS Tactical came out, everybody and his dog had to pontificate about how crappy the stock was, how poor the metal finish, how just-plain-bad the whole gun was. I had one and liked it.
Now, there's a thread asking people which model of Rem700 they wish to see produced again now that Remington has risen from the ashes...and probably half the responses are asking for the ol' Hogue-stocked, short-heavy-barreled SPS Tactical.
What Ruger should do now is dis-continue the American...wait a month...and then announce its re-release. It'll sell so well that...well, it'll probably sell even better than it does today.
ecadwallader
CGN Regular
The PTG bottom metal is actually metal. It needs a lot of inletting of the stock, which had to be a rotary mag stock, not the ar stock.
Now there's something ^ you don't hear too often.
Does the PTG bottom metal fit the American stock as a drop-in? Is it actually metal?
I upgraded my Ruger Ranch in 5.56 from the sloppy AR-magwell to a Ruger-made AICS-pattern magwell. I love it now; the AR-mag version was only something I tolerated because at one time I had several rifles using that mag, and plenty of mags on hand. Sold those rifles over time: once I realized that the Ruger was my only AR-mag rifle, switching it to AICS mags (which I already have plenty of) was a no-brainer and I was well-pleased with the results.
The constant bashing of the Ruger American sounds strangely familiar. It almost seems as though some folks buy these guns even though they already "know" they are not good...just so they can whine about them. Back when the Remington 700 SPS Tactical came out, everybody and his dog had to pontificate about how crappy the stock was, how poor the metal finish, how just-plain-bad the whole gun was. I had one and liked it.
Now, there's a thread asking people which model of Rem700 they wish to see produced again now that Remington has risen from the ashes...and probably half the responses are asking for the ol' Hogue-stocked, short-heavy-barreled SPS Tactical.
What Ruger should do now is dis-continue the American...wait a month...and then announce its re-release. It'll sell so well that...well, it'll probably sell even better than it does today.
What did you polish to eliminate the ZIPPER noise ? Thxs RJ
