I was shopping for one thing and bought this on an impulse instead. So it was sort of doomed from the start. And like I often do, instead of getting out quick, I kept digging myself deeper into the hole. Rather than cut my losses, I kept throwing money at it.
Spent LOTS of time on it. Bothered Wayno to loan me a set of rings to see if they'd work.
SO... some REALLY awful pictures. Bought this supposedly new/nfired, and it certainly appeared that way. I've put.... 50-75 rounds through it.
I bedded the action fore and aft. The stock is very tight, to get it out you have to tap it out from underneath. I free floated the barrel. Which of course made the um... "economy" Ruger stock VERY flexible up front. So I hogged it out and bedded in an aluminum tube to add rigidity. Which it did. Which also made in necessary to remove the from sling swivel.
I've grown to like carrying a rifle muzzle down across the chest, so I added some QD sling sockets (function over form, I've done prettier work as you can see by the gap.
(I intended this to be a bad weather hunting gun that would get rained and snowed on and beat up, I never intended to sell it to anyone lol)
Including putting the first hole in the wrong spot and having to fill it in. You can see a dimple where I filled the mistake.
Then to hide all the body work it got a coat of plastic primer, some texture, then some color. Then a clear coat.
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Then of course I put in a Volquartsen trigger, a low set of rings (it came with mediums) and a light weight Leupold scope.
Adding up what I'm into the rifle for ($650+), the bedding, more bedding, the tube, the primer, the paint, the clear coat, the stencils, ($100+) the volquartsen trigger ($50), the second set of rings ($50) and the scope ($250).... I'm into this thing for $1100! :shock: Which equals I'm an idiot.
It's cool, it's light, it's handy, it's fun to shoot... and it's not what I wanted. I find myself still shopping for what I was originally after. So I'm ripping off the bandaid quick and moving on.
(Though I'm not done being stupid, I almost bought a factory stock off Ebay the other day of about $50 to put on this to resell it, which makes no sense.)
So I'm listing the rifle, medium and low rings, volquartsen trigger, and the factory two mags for my original in cost of $650 shipped.
I would include the Leupold lightweight 2x scope for an extra $200.
To satisfy forum rules, I'm in NY. But there's no FTF sales in NY, so it's would go through a dealer either way. Call and write your legislators, don't let this happen in your state or nation wide.
Spent LOTS of time on it. Bothered Wayno to loan me a set of rings to see if they'd work.
SO... some REALLY awful pictures. Bought this supposedly new/nfired, and it certainly appeared that way. I've put.... 50-75 rounds through it.
I bedded the action fore and aft. The stock is very tight, to get it out you have to tap it out from underneath. I free floated the barrel. Which of course made the um... "economy" Ruger stock VERY flexible up front. So I hogged it out and bedded in an aluminum tube to add rigidity. Which it did. Which also made in necessary to remove the from sling swivel.
I've grown to like carrying a rifle muzzle down across the chest, so I added some QD sling sockets (function over form, I've done prettier work as you can see by the gap.
(I intended this to be a bad weather hunting gun that would get rained and snowed on and beat up, I never intended to sell it to anyone lol)
Including putting the first hole in the wrong spot and having to fill it in. You can see a dimple where I filled the mistake.
Then of course I put in a Volquartsen trigger, a low set of rings (it came with mediums) and a light weight Leupold scope.
Adding up what I'm into the rifle for ($650+), the bedding, more bedding, the tube, the primer, the paint, the clear coat, the stencils, ($100+) the volquartsen trigger ($50), the second set of rings ($50) and the scope ($250).... I'm into this thing for $1100! :shock: Which equals I'm an idiot.
It's cool, it's light, it's handy, it's fun to shoot... and it's not what I wanted. I find myself still shopping for what I was originally after. So I'm ripping off the bandaid quick and moving on.
(Though I'm not done being stupid, I almost bought a factory stock off Ebay the other day of about $50 to put on this to resell it, which makes no sense.)
So I'm listing the rifle, medium and low rings, volquartsen trigger, and the factory two mags for my original in cost of $650 shipped.
I would include the Leupold lightweight 2x scope for an extra $200.
To satisfy forum rules, I'm in NY. But there's no FTF sales in NY, so it's would go through a dealer either way. Call and write your legislators, don't let this happen in your state or nation wide.
