Shooter III
Single-Sixer
I am so disappointed with Ruger's quality these days, let me begin my ramble .. .. ..
A year ago, I bought my son an American .308 with the Vortex 3 X 9 scope for his birthday / Christmas.
I chose to sight it in before I gave it to him, as what loads of people think, "the American series of rifles is a good inexpensive starter rifle" Anyway ... I was impressed with a wee-bit of a under an inch 3-shot group at 100 yds.
Hence; I decided to purchase an American .270 for myself, the cycling of the action was well below standard operating procedure, it would pick-up rounds and ram them into the wall of the chamber and drive the bullet into the case deep enough that it became unsafe to fire the round, afterwards I found lots of info regarding this issue with the long action / rotary mags going as far back as a few years with no fix from Ruger, I immediately took it back to Cabela's the next day for a full refund and upgraded to Tikka T3x, I'm super happy with the Tikka.
AND ... I didn't learn enough from that debacle, the other day I bought another Ruger American, this time a GEN 2 in .22ARC, the action functions, it feeds, fires, and ejects rounds ... BUT ... I have to be rough and abrupt when cycling the bolt to get the extractor to bump over the rim of the cartridge, I've taken the bolt out of the firearm to check the operation of the spring / ball detent / extractor and it is difficult to move and sticks in the up position and comes back into place with a little push.
Regardless of Americans being a budget rifle I would expect better quality from Ruger !!!!
SIDE NOTE: I own a 10/22, Mark III pistol, and a GP100, No more of loyalty or $$$.$$ will be given to the Ruger corporation, Tikka here I come !!!
A year ago, I bought my son an American .308 with the Vortex 3 X 9 scope for his birthday / Christmas.
I chose to sight it in before I gave it to him, as what loads of people think, "the American series of rifles is a good inexpensive starter rifle" Anyway ... I was impressed with a wee-bit of a under an inch 3-shot group at 100 yds.
Hence; I decided to purchase an American .270 for myself, the cycling of the action was well below standard operating procedure, it would pick-up rounds and ram them into the wall of the chamber and drive the bullet into the case deep enough that it became unsafe to fire the round, afterwards I found lots of info regarding this issue with the long action / rotary mags going as far back as a few years with no fix from Ruger, I immediately took it back to Cabela's the next day for a full refund and upgraded to Tikka T3x, I'm super happy with the Tikka.
AND ... I didn't learn enough from that debacle, the other day I bought another Ruger American, this time a GEN 2 in .22ARC, the action functions, it feeds, fires, and ejects rounds ... BUT ... I have to be rough and abrupt when cycling the bolt to get the extractor to bump over the rim of the cartridge, I've taken the bolt out of the firearm to check the operation of the spring / ball detent / extractor and it is difficult to move and sticks in the up position and comes back into place with a little push.
Regardless of Americans being a budget rifle I would expect better quality from Ruger !!!!
SIDE NOTE: I own a 10/22, Mark III pistol, and a GP100, No more of loyalty or $$$.$$ will be given to the Ruger corporation, Tikka here I come !!!
Holy smokes how hard was it to push the bolt forward? It was so stiff that it couldn't be noticed you were actually seating the bullet? Maybe some size lube would have worked.....
