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Re: Don't open if you don't want to buy another gun. [Re: white17] #7676060
09/21/22 04:07 PM
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Originally Posted by white17
I think it shows very poor taste to show up in a corn filed with a semi-auto for such a majestic bird as a pheasant laugh


I don't see pheasants as very majestic, they have become rare due to lack of habitat. So the state stocks them, its a case of birds wild as chickens with all sorts of city slickers chasing them all over the corn fields.

I keep far away.

Re: Don't open if you don't want to buy another gun. [Re: GREENCOUNTYPETE] #7676061
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I can die completely fulfilled now. LOL. Sorry for the highjack, nice gun OP.

Re: Don't open if you don't want to buy another gun. [Re: Kansas Cat] #7676064
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Originally Posted by Kansas Cat
I can die completely fulfilled now. LOL. Sorry for the highjack, nice gun OP.

all good I carry a 12 ga riot gun for Pheasant

870 police with a 20 inch barrel had it threaded for rem chokes or a 500 with a 20 inch barrel so I am always in poor taste

but then again I am the dog so shorter barrels help me fulfill my role as human dog in hunting.


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Re: Don't open if you don't want to buy another gun. [Re: Kansas Cat] #7676065
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Originally Posted by Kansas Cat
I exhibit very poor taste then because I carry a semiautomatic for all manner of upland hunting. It just never made any sense to me to lug around 2 barrels when I can only shoot one at a time. I do have the good sense to carry a 20 or a 28 depending upon quarry. LOL.


I too carry a 20 ga semi auto for upland hunting, bout all the upland hunting I do is Ruffed Grouse. I can't see limiting yourself to 2 shots when you can kick up 3-4 or more at a time. I have killed many a grouse on the 5th shot while my buddy with his double barrel stands there empty.

Re: Don't open if you don't want to buy another gun. [Re: GREENCOUNTYPETE] #7676072
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Originally Posted by GREENCOUNTYPETE
Originally Posted by Kansas Cat
I can die completely fulfilled now. LOL. Sorry for the highjack, nice gun OP.

all good I carry a 12 ga riot gun for Pheasant

870 police with a 20 inch barrel had it threaded for rem chokes or a 500 with a 20 inch barrel so I am always in poor taste

but then again I am the dog so shorter barrels help me fulfill my role as human dog in hunting.


Before I went to semi autos I used a 12 ga 870 with a skeet barrel, I think its 26". We hunted Grouse mainly, never with a dog, I too was the dog. So lots of very close shots to start with.
I was asked by my hunting buddies why I dumped the 870 for a semi auto as I fired the 870 so fast that many times it sounded like I had an auto.
It was cause as many shells as I went thru all the 12 ga shells I carried was getting too heavy for me.

Re: Don't open if you don't want to buy another gun. [Re: GREENCOUNTYPETE] #7677559
09/23/22 02:40 PM
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Today I was able to get out and shoot 25 more rounds through my Ruger SFAR, I was using Federal Gold Medal Match ammo the 168 grain load and all shooting was done at 100 yards from a concreted in bench using front and rear bags. The scope is still the Leupold 4x12 that I originally mounted on the rifle.

For the good news, I was able to turn the gas setting down to 2 and the rifle experienced no stoppages for the 25 rounds which I am pleased with.

Now for the not so good news the average group size for the 5 separate 5 round groups was 1.91 inches so up slightly from the previous average group size, the barrel was allowed to cool for 5 minutes between the firing of each group. On the bright side with one exception the groups were much more uniform in shape and the last group was almost perfectly round and was a 1.5 inch group.

At this point, I plan on starting to experiment with some different loads to see if it vastly prefers any of them over the GMM. Obviously the Federal is very high-quality ammo but as we all know different rifles prefer different loads,

Re: Don't open if you don't want to buy another gun. [Re: GREENCOUNTYPETE] #7677581
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good to hear it is functioning well on gas setting 2

my son is out shooting his right now , I will report when he gets back.


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Re: Don't open if you don't want to buy another gun. [Re: GREENCOUNTYPETE] #7677609
09/23/22 03:59 PM
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I hope he has better results from his than I have from mine, I have always been a huge Ruger fan but this rifle has been a disappointment. I hope that it straightens out and performs well. I really liked the idea of this rifle when I bought it and I really want to continue liking the rifle, but its performance is making it difficult. Also, GREENCOUNTYPETE, if your son has good accuracy results with his rifle, please post what ammo he was using.

I called Ruger Customer Service the other day and they confirmed again that it would require between 100 and 200 rounds for the rifle to start functioning properly which is kind of frustrating to have to spend another 200 or 300 dollars in ammo to get a 1000 dollar rifle to work. They also wouldn't make any accuracy commitments about the rifle but when I told the rep that I was getting 1.75 inch groups with Federal Gold Medal Match he said that was really good so that didn't build a lot of confidence that the rifle will produce really good accuracy but like I said above we will see what some different loads do. I don't know maybe I just expect too much from it based on my experience with AR-15s.

Re: Don't open if you don't want to buy another gun. [Re: GREENCOUNTYPETE] #7677630
09/23/22 04:26 PM
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he fired 60 rounds of Aguila fmj "break in ammo"

He had 100% function while on gas setting 3

he tried gas setting 2 after 40 rounds on setting 3 and had 2 failure to feed then went back to setting 3. I don't know how many of his 60 rounds that was

as long as he was running gas setting 3 it was feeding well he has the 20 inch barrel with the rifle gas system maybe that makes a difference , unsure and a sample size of 1

he didn't measure but when he tried to shoot accurately he said about 2 inches for his best group on paper at 100 mostly he was shooting steel at 100 and 200

we weren't expecting any great accuracy from the Aguila it was the cheapest thing on the shelf for break in and fun.

the up side sounds like good function right out of the box for his as long as using gas setting 3

he put a Vortex 1-8 strike eagle on it for an optic


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Re: Don't open if you don't want to buy another gun. [Re: GREENCOUNTYPETE] #7677642
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Yes, my rifle has a 16 inch barrel, I am glad his is working well, sounds like better accuracy as well, it will be interesting to see how it does with better ammo as far as accuracy. That Vortex should serve fine on a hunting rifle, that is probably what I will put on mine if it improves enough to earn a permanent spot in the safe.

Re: Don't open if you don't want to buy another gun. [Re: GREENCOUNTYPETE] #7677767
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after I talked to him he went back to the store bought 40 more rounds this time PMC bronze fmj and went back to the range

so he took it to 100 rounds he said in his last 20 of the 100 rounds the ejection of cases started shifting forward so we will see if it will run on 2 at some point.

he was just having too much fun banging steel at 200 at that point to shoot for groups he had 4 steel plates up at 200

once the cows get off summer pasture at the farm we have some steel at 420yards to go play with and if we build a stand to hang the steel on we can go to about 700.


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Re: Don't open if you don't want to buy another gun. [Re: GREENCOUNTYPETE] #7677834
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That sounds really good, I am going to try to run some different hunting loads through mine tomorrow and see how they do in my rifle. Hopefully they will run well and eject far enough forward to not hit me in the face with the brass. This is the first AR pattern rifle that I have ever shot that hits me in the face with the ejected brass regularly, the only other one that has ever hit me was a Colt 9mm submachine gun that would hit me occasionally after it firing several bursts but that wasn't every shot.

Re: Don't open if you don't want to buy another gun. [Re: GREENCOUNTYPETE] #7677876
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I just asked him where it was putting brass

he said it had been putting them out around 3:30-4:00

then around 85-90 rounds it shifted to around 1:30-2:00

60 rounds Aguila then 40 rounds PMC bronze


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Re: Don't open if you don't want to buy another gun. [Re: GREENCOUNTYPETE] #7677895
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What would it take to put a 243 barrel on this?


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Re: Don't open if you don't want to buy another gun. [Re: GREENCOUNTYPETE] #7678076
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If you could get a barrel made for it in 243 it would be a simple barrel swap but the barrel is proprietary to this rifle so maybe Ruger will offer it in 243 at some point or if it takes off maybe someone will start making barrels for them but right now there are no barrels available in 243 unless it is a custom made one off which obviously would be extremely expensive.

Re: Don't open if you don't want to buy another gun. [Re: wildflights] #7678146
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Originally Posted by wildflights
What would it take to put a 243 barrel on this?

if it gets as popular as the Ruger Precision rifle it probably won't take long and some barrel maker will have a barrel and bolt combo for it.

but probably 2-3 years out at least

it needs a base first , what that base wants to be doing will drive the direction it goes much like the RPR also it takes more than hunters to drive a market , hunters don't burn out barrels or need even if they like it the performance competitors demand


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Re: Don't open if you don't want to buy another gun. [Re: GREENCOUNTYPETE] #7678151
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I bet in the future other calibers will be offered from the factory.
If these will shoot in .75 or so I would be interested in 7mm08 or 243 since I shoot those allready. If not not so much. I'm not a fan of guns that are not accurate.

Re: Don't open if you don't want to buy another gun. [Re: GREENCOUNTYPETE] #7708092
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Well here is another promised update on my rifle, I haven't been able to get time to shoot it lately but I did get out for a little while tonight. Since my last post, I did change the buffer to an H buffer to help with the ejection pattern to hopefully keep the brass from hitting me. Well tonight I put 25 rounds through the rifle and I had zero stoppages, and did not get hit a single time by brass so we have made great progress. I did have one load I tried produced a group 100 yard five shot group of 1.11 inches with 3 rounds a cloverleaf which shows a lot of promise, I will load up some more of those and see if that was a fluke or that load will work. The other loads that I tried were right around 2 inches but with one exception they were nice uniform groups. I am much happier with this rifle now than I was at first. I will probably just go sight it in with factory ammo and not mess with it anymore until after hunting season then try to find the preferred load for it.

Re: Don't open if you don't want to buy another gun. [Re: jbyrd63] #7708141
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Originally Posted by jbyrd63
I read this . Still don’t want one ! Sorry I’ll stick to my bolt guns 222, 6mm ,270 and of course my inherited marlin 30-30 lever action .But you guys enjoy!!

I'm a Bolt Man myself. grin


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Originally Posted by jbyrd63
AT 300 YARDS !!!!! DANG I want one 1:11 in video . Yes left lane I have said on MANY occasions that they would be great for hog hunting !!! Mow them down. But where I live and how I hunt I have no use nor desire for one. But looks like fun and good luck .

You're Right Leftlane

If we had hogs

But then I'd still prefer an Old school Semi Auto.

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