Ruger American....wow, what a piece of crap!

trebor2880 said:
Obviously there is no QC at Ruger. Sad, but a sign of the times.
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Compared the quality of the hubbies Ruger 77 MKII All-Weather in 300 Win Mag bought in the 90s with the newer Ruger bolt action rifles that guests have shown us.
Ruger has definitely slipped in the qc department.
A sign of the times for sure.
 
torontogungal said:
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Compared the quality of the hubbies Ruger 77 MKII All-Weather in 300 Win Mag bought in the 90s with the newer Ruger bolt action rifles that guests have shown us.
Ruger has definitely slipped in the qc department.
A sign of the times for sure.
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I have 9 Ruger rifles and two Ruger handguns......... the wood is not as nice as it once was, I will give you that, but the fit is superb on all of them, with only three being vintage rugers including an RSM and a #1 in .257 Roberts...... Heads and tails above everything else sold in their price range IMOP....... Solid Mauser type actions, integral recoil lugs, investment casting.......

Don't you shoot Rossis?.......
 
hawk-i said:
Well both of the ones you have shown are marked as sold. :(
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Gotta be fast when they post these....keep checking daily as they have been listing new items every day for the last week or more.
These are just a few I would have no issues buying up.
https://www.tradeexcanada.com/content/swedish-m96-sporter-65x55-6
https://www.tradeexcanada.com/content/husqvarna-m96-sporter-65x55-0
https://www.tradeexcanada.com/content/swedish-m96-sporter-65x55-16
Another nice one listed
https://www.tradeexcanada.com/content/swedish-m96-sporter-65x55-26
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Superbrad said:
I have 9 Ruger rifles and two Ruger handguns......... the wood is not as nice as it once was, I will give you that, but the fit is superb on all of them, with only three being vintage rugers including an RSM and a #1 in .257 Roberts...... Heads and tails above everything else sold in their price range IMOP....... Solid Mauser type actions, integral recoil lugs, investment casting.......

Don't you shoot Rossis?.......
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We had a big downsizing and the rossis got sold off in favor of more practical guns.
 
torontogungal said:
We had a big downsizing and the rossis got sold off in favor of more practical guns.
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I understand the downsizing principle........ But why Rossis?...... Based on all of the out of the box work your hubby and brother had to do to them, I thought the final product was the cats ass based on your posts of a few months ago?..... Now new rugers are crap, and their QC lacks but you dumped what you yourself said was your go to after a bunch of work?.....
 
Superbrad said:
I understand the downsizing principle........ But why Rossis?...... Based on all of the out of the box work your hubby and brother had to do to them, I thought the final product was the cats ass based on your posts of a few months ago?..... Now new rugers are crap, and their QC lacks but you dumped what you yourself said was your go to after a bunch of work?.....
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The rossis were interesting projects but a scoped browning blr takedown in 308 win or a Ruger 77 in 300 win mag is infinitely more versatile than a rossi 92 in 44 mag or even 454 casull being able to hunt both the large timber clear cuts of northern Ontario where shots of 400 or more yards are possible as well as the thick brush and low swampy areas.
The guns we didn't pass down to the kids we sold.
The ones we kept were the ones we hunted with 99.9% of the time anyway while the others collected dust in the safes.
We cut back to a few guns each.
 
Superbrad said:
I understand the downsizing principle........ But why Rossis?...... Based on all of the out of the box work your hubby and brother had to do to them, I thought the final product was the cats ass based on your posts of a few months ago?..... Now new rugers are crap, and their QC lacks but you dumped what you yourself said was your go to after a bunch of work?.....
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And in passing our rossi 92s sold for considerably more than we paid for them.
I didn't say the contemporary rugers were crap.
Our rossi 92s were all pre safety models without the redundant pigtail safety on top of the bolt with the steves gunz kits, walnut stocks and lee gunslinger spring kits installed.
The modern Ruger rifles I inspected were not the same quality or as robustly built as our older (90s built) rugers.
Old bill would roll over in his grave if he saw the modern economy line of ruger rifles.
 
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torontogungal said:
And in passing our rossi 92s sold for considerably more than we paid for them.
I didn't say the contemporary rugers were crap.
Our rossi 92s were all pre safety models without the redundant pigtail safety on top of the bolt with the steves gunz kits, walnut stocks and lee gunslinger spring kits installed.
The modern Ruger rifles I inspected were not the same quality or as robustly built as our older (90s built) rugers.
Old bill would roll over in his grave if he saw the modern economy line of ruger rifles.
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Fair enough.... Thought you were comparing modern rugers to Rossis out of the box.......

Personally, I think ALL mainstream manufacturers are producing less quality than they were 10-15 years ago in the same rifle....... Only exception being the Miroku winchesters, but you certainly pay for the quality upkeep......
 
We owned Miroku Winchester 94s (30-30 & 450 Marlin) and a 1886 extra light (45-70) and sold them all after admiring their quality.
Great guns but we kept the guns we normally hunted with like the scoped browning blr takedown in 308 Win which was just as useful in a northern ontario timber clear cut as it is in dense brush.
You'd look silly in a tree stand in a thousand yard wide timber cut near watabag lake with a lever 450 Marlin.
To be fair at their price point the Miroku rifles are custom guns not mass produced guns of the people like the Winchester 94s or economy budget guns like the Ruger American.
Comparing a rolls royce to a chev is not informative.
 
I've sometimes sat on my patio in the summer months all day and saw "delivery attempted" cards being placed in our mailbox by "posties" when no delivery had in fact been attempted.
The posties never even came near the door let alone ring the door bell.
Good thing the post office where we picked the parcels up was close to our home.
Now there is no home delivery in our area at all ... just the outside mail boxes.
 
4 more reasons Ruger American isn't worth it....
1-$300 for this 1899 Oberndorf M96 Sporter.
2-All wood and metal, smooth as #### crf.
3-Shoots sub moa with the worst factory ammo I've ever had....PRVI 139gr sp.
4-Ruger doesn't come in 6.5x55



 
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Life's too short to try to work with crap. The first time I handled a Swedish Mauser, I knew quality and pride.
 
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