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I guess I'm simply spoiled. I built my first 257 Roberts #1 in 1970, two years before Ruger finally sent me one after 5 years of constant bitching and 13 years before they finally cataloged the thing.
I built my 264 way back in the 70s. That would be 35 years before it was offered by the factory.
I could run down a very long list of stuff that I've built that Ruger either brought out many years after I made mine OR still haven't made.
My point being if it's something you REALLY want the for heavens sake make yourself one rather than wait years and years and years for something that Ruger may or may not make for whatever reason. Doesn't matter if it doesn't come out because somebody decides that it either duplicates something or it fills a niche so narrow that it doesn't make sound business sense to the manufacturer.
The ONLY regret I have on the ones I made and enjoyed to many years was that had I known better I'd have made sure the conversion was on some very common rifle ie. 30-06 "A" or "B" or maybe a 270 or a 7mm Mag.
The saving grace is I am such a pack rat that I saved everything and the stuff that turned out to be rare could actually returned to original and the wildcat or custom barrel used on a more common variation years later.
If you REALLY want a 444 #1 why not build one? What do you lose? What you you gain is years of use of a gun you insist you would love to have and would buy if only they made one. There is a current manufacturer, you.
The other side of the #1 caliber question would be why in the world would Ruger make a vast arawy of cartridges?? Looking at the lineup from just about anybody else it seems to me that the vast majority make a specific number and don't deviate much.
I always thought that they should make ONE per year in something new/interesting/nostalgic ala the Remington Classic 700s.
That way the guys that wanted something completely off the wall or at least not main stream MIGHT get what they wanted AND it would have put things out there for the true collectors to choose from.
I have to admit it's all pretty much a wash with me, personally. Very little in the #1 lineup I'm likely to buy, most off the secondary market and usually pre 1980 or so. I'm gettting OLD and it's harder and harder to rationalize MORE #1s.
Of course if they would simply make the damned 250-3000 "A" and yes I want it stamped 250-3000 not 250 Savage!!! ;-)
Ross
I built my 264 way back in the 70s. That would be 35 years before it was offered by the factory.
I could run down a very long list of stuff that I've built that Ruger either brought out many years after I made mine OR still haven't made.
My point being if it's something you REALLY want the for heavens sake make yourself one rather than wait years and years and years for something that Ruger may or may not make for whatever reason. Doesn't matter if it doesn't come out because somebody decides that it either duplicates something or it fills a niche so narrow that it doesn't make sound business sense to the manufacturer.
The ONLY regret I have on the ones I made and enjoyed to many years was that had I known better I'd have made sure the conversion was on some very common rifle ie. 30-06 "A" or "B" or maybe a 270 or a 7mm Mag.
The saving grace is I am such a pack rat that I saved everything and the stuff that turned out to be rare could actually returned to original and the wildcat or custom barrel used on a more common variation years later.
If you REALLY want a 444 #1 why not build one? What do you lose? What you you gain is years of use of a gun you insist you would love to have and would buy if only they made one. There is a current manufacturer, you.
The other side of the #1 caliber question would be why in the world would Ruger make a vast arawy of cartridges?? Looking at the lineup from just about anybody else it seems to me that the vast majority make a specific number and don't deviate much.
I always thought that they should make ONE per year in something new/interesting/nostalgic ala the Remington Classic 700s.
That way the guys that wanted something completely off the wall or at least not main stream MIGHT get what they wanted AND it would have put things out there for the true collectors to choose from.
I have to admit it's all pretty much a wash with me, personally. Very little in the #1 lineup I'm likely to buy, most off the secondary market and usually pre 1980 or so. I'm gettting OLD and it's harder and harder to rationalize MORE #1s.
Of course if they would simply make the damned 250-3000 "A" and yes I want it stamped 250-3000 not 250 Savage!!! ;-)
Ross
