Centuriator
Bearcat
- Joined
- Feb 17, 2018
- Messages
- 2
The good news is that it is a great little carbine. Love it. Well made and fun to shoot. I picked mine up last week and got it out to the range yesterday for the first time. The little extras are really nice: milled rail, suppressor ready threaded barrel, ability to use Glock magazines was the feature that sold me on it, since I have a lot of Glock mags.
I had it on preorder from Sportsmen Outdoors Superstore for $515, shipped.
The "bad news" is that I dutifully followed the instructions in the manual that the take down screws should be torqued to 65 inch pounds. I thought, geesh, that's a lot of torque, but oh well...and so I got out my torque wrench, set it to 65 and ... snapped the head off the front take down screw. So...I'm thinking the manual may well be incorrect. I tried to shoot it anyway and it was a mess, the glock mag well did not function well and I had repeated failures to extract and eject and double feeds. I was able to get a few shots off and enough to know that if/when I get this taken care of, it is going to be fun to shoot.
I put a Vortex Venom optic on mine and it is the perfect budget red dot, and it ran great suppressed too.
Good news: I contacted Ruger asking a few questions about a solution and they sent me return shipping label for me to return the whole rifle to them, on their dime. OK, I'm impressed. They are going to fix it, test it and return it, free shipping. Awesome.
I had it on preorder from Sportsmen Outdoors Superstore for $515, shipped.
The "bad news" is that I dutifully followed the instructions in the manual that the take down screws should be torqued to 65 inch pounds. I thought, geesh, that's a lot of torque, but oh well...and so I got out my torque wrench, set it to 65 and ... snapped the head off the front take down screw. So...I'm thinking the manual may well be incorrect. I tried to shoot it anyway and it was a mess, the glock mag well did not function well and I had repeated failures to extract and eject and double feeds. I was able to get a few shots off and enough to know that if/when I get this taken care of, it is going to be fun to shoot.
I put a Vortex Venom optic on mine and it is the perfect budget red dot, and it ran great suppressed too.
Good news: I contacted Ruger asking a few questions about a solution and they sent me return shipping label for me to return the whole rifle to them, on their dime. OK, I'm impressed. They are going to fix it, test it and return it, free shipping. Awesome.