{"id":74,"date":"2004-05-21T08:47:32","date_gmt":"2004-05-21T13:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.50.194.231\/~vqplgdbg\/?p=74"},"modified":"2004-05-21T08:47:32","modified_gmt":"2004-05-21T13:47:32","slug":"but-what-about-the-ruger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=74","title":{"rendered":"But what about the Ruger?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spoons asked me this, and I am pleased to report, the answer is “wow”.<\/p>\n

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The fact of the matter is, like all nice pistols, this sucker outshoots me by miles.<\/p>\n

At ten yards, I got all the hits inside the 5 ring, and by supporting my wrist, was able to get 8 out of ten in the X ring. The X ring on these targets is 1\/2″ diameter.<\/p>\n

The Mark II is possibly one of the finest shooting out of the box 22s I’ve ever shot, and I shot a lot before deciding on this. There are a lot of folks who would say, the Browning Buckmark is more pistol, nicer, etc., and they’d be right. The Buckmark is a great pistol! It’s also a LOT more money, in a heavy barrel version. Almost $100 more than I paid for this. <\/p>\n

Here’s the tradeoff: the Ruger is about half stamped steel, pound for pound, where the Browning is an all machined pistol (though machined from an investment casting, IIRC. ) The critical parts of the Ruger are all finely machined, and look as though they’ve been lapped in place; the bolt is such a good fit it feels like it has bearings, I spent a couple minutes LOOKING for bearings. They aren’t there, it’s just that smooth. By the way, the same is true of the Ruger 22\/45. The critical parts are all machined, and the grip\/etc, is plastic, a good low cost compromise, a nice entry level 22. <\/p>\n

The trigger breaks like glass. Ruger has always made nice pistols out of the box, and it’s made in the USA. Nuff Said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Spoons asked me this, and I am pleased to report, the answer is “wow”. The fact of the matter is, like all nice pistols, this sucker outshoots me by miles. At ten yards, I got all the hits inside the 5 ring, and by supporting my wrist, was able to get 8 out of ten […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}