mohavesam
Hawkeye
I know there is no requirement to love every new model. Heck long-time Ruger buyers understand half of Ruger's products (or is it more than half) are removed after a few years or so and then aren't serviced by the company.
JFG, I picked out my 2002 commercial US catalog: Besides colorful, hunting and shooting-related photography I really appreciate, I counted
2 side-by-sides,
33 over-unders!,
10 No. 1 rifles in 25 calibers,
47 bolt-action rifles in almost 30 calibers including a couple of fine-walnut Express rifles,
ten 10-22s in two calibers,
Carbines in 9mm and 40S&W,
9 Mini-14, Ranch and Mini-Thirty rifles in three calibers (plus the 99/44 "Mini-44")
three lever-actions,
four 50 cal. muzzle-loaders,
17 22lr pistols,
28 centerfire semi-auto pistols,
15 big bore DA revolvers in four calibers,
22 DA 38/357 revolvers,
10 Bisleys, Bearcats, and Old Army revolvers,
almost 50 Vaqueros, Bisley-Vaqueros, SIngle-Six guns in 7-8 calibers including birdshead guns,
and 25 Hunter and std. model SA guns in five calibers, plus Convertible models scattered throughout...
By a quick caffeine count I read over 275 models offered. And IMO not a curr in the whole pack. (and back then I'd guess half the number of employees compared to today)
I estimate over half those guns have been cancelled and removed in the dozen or so years since.
Design Engineering isn't what it used to be and supply chain management is lacking, its all driven by "FF" now (finance-first), and we'll see plain-white catalogs and more and more plastic of course. If you don't like strikers and plastic frames/stocks and media-blast/spray paint taking over as a "finish" - well Ruger may not be your first love in the future...?
OMT - Can anyone recall the years when Ruger published the "magazine-type catalogs"??? I have a couple but thought there were more...
JFG, I picked out my 2002 commercial US catalog: Besides colorful, hunting and shooting-related photography I really appreciate, I counted
2 side-by-sides,
33 over-unders!,
10 No. 1 rifles in 25 calibers,
47 bolt-action rifles in almost 30 calibers including a couple of fine-walnut Express rifles,
ten 10-22s in two calibers,
Carbines in 9mm and 40S&W,
9 Mini-14, Ranch and Mini-Thirty rifles in three calibers (plus the 99/44 "Mini-44")
three lever-actions,
four 50 cal. muzzle-loaders,
17 22lr pistols,
28 centerfire semi-auto pistols,
15 big bore DA revolvers in four calibers,
22 DA 38/357 revolvers,
10 Bisleys, Bearcats, and Old Army revolvers,
almost 50 Vaqueros, Bisley-Vaqueros, SIngle-Six guns in 7-8 calibers including birdshead guns,
and 25 Hunter and std. model SA guns in five calibers, plus Convertible models scattered throughout...
By a quick caffeine count I read over 275 models offered. And IMO not a curr in the whole pack. (and back then I'd guess half the number of employees compared to today)
I estimate over half those guns have been cancelled and removed in the dozen or so years since.
Design Engineering isn't what it used to be and supply chain management is lacking, its all driven by "FF" now (finance-first), and we'll see plain-white catalogs and more and more plastic of course. If you don't like strikers and plastic frames/stocks and media-blast/spray paint taking over as a "finish" - well Ruger may not be your first love in the future...?
OMT - Can anyone recall the years when Ruger published the "magazine-type catalogs"??? I have a couple but thought there were more...