by Jorlcrin » 06 Jan 2024, 11:55 am
Visitors over New Year brought with them a new Ruger American Rimfire, which came with a package including rail and 3-9x40 scope(cant remember the brand).
.22 WMR, 18" threaded Stainless barrel with Synthetic stock, and rotary 9-shot mag.
Pretty sure they paid around $700 for it from one of the bigger dealers in SE QLD.
We sighted it in one afternoon, and the trigger was too heavy(4.5lbs).
Downloaded the manual, removed the stock as per instructions, and then followed instructions to lighten trigger in stages, until we had it to our satisfaction.
Re-fitted stock and torqued it down, and the difference was amazing.
A nice little rifle.
I had ~200 40gn CCI Maxi-Mag HP rounds that wont feed reliably into my CZ455(the step on the HP projectile usually jams on the breech-face), but they fed smooth as silk through this Ruger- Must be a slightly different feed angle).
By the time we'd worked over the trigger and done a couple of afternoon sessions, James(visitor) was clover-leafing holes at 50m, and around half an inch at 75m, so well good enough for his needs. Not sure he bothered to do any work at 100m to see how it compared.
If I owned it, I might eventually change the trigger, and upgrade the scope, but neither of these were going to stop it nailling the odd rabbit in the mean-time.
I'd question how that stock will last over time(slightly more flimsy than the Tikka synthetic stocks), but replacement stocks arent that hard to source.