Gun Review Ruger Precision Rifle in. WINThe rifle for this review was provided by the Kentucky Gun Company. The time between receiving the presser for the Ruger Precision Rifle pressing the send button on my email to my friends at Ruger beggingpleading asking nicely for one could be measured in nanoseconds. The next email was to the rest of the crew at TTAG to say, Back off Shes all mine. And as if my prayers had been extra double answered, one day later an email hit my inbox from our perpetual patrons at Kentucky Gun Company to let me know that they had a RPR in. WIN that we could thrash around on as well. So within a day of each other, my FFL handed over two identical boxes with two nearly identical guns. An RPR in 6. 5 Creedmoor review here and one in. WIN. Those who have read my review of the 6. I feel about that gun. I gave it four stars only because I couldnt give it 4. The buttstock was really the only thing that held the gun back from being what it theoretically could have been. Carl Swenson shares information about the Ruger Mini30 rifle in this article. Ruger 1022 Americas Favorite. Rifle. by Jeff Quinn. Jeff Quinn. June 25th, 2009 Click links below for videoThat applies to the. Oh, and theres accuracy, but more on that later. The. 3. 08 version ships with a very handy twenty inch barrel, a full four inches shorter than the 6. As in almost all things gun related, barrel length is a topic of fierce debate, but I count myself in the camp that believes you should go with the shortest rifle barrel that will do the job at hand. All youre sacrificing by going to a shorter barrel is a loss of velocity. Josh Wayner even did a lot of the heavy lifting for me to demonstrate that if nothing else, shorter barrels on a. So if you can get it done with a shorter barrel, you should, as the payoff in handling is well worth the velocity penalty. Four inches may not sound like a lot, but it can mean the world when working off a barrier or out of a truck where that length can mean being able to quickly bring the gun to bear, or having to take a step back to give yourself more room to work. This problem is of course only amplified when you screw a silencer to the end of the barrel. Running the 6. 5 and the. The. 3. 08 comes up quicker and allows you to move and work off barriers and obstacles much more easily. Mini14 Rifle Manufactured from 1978 to 2004 Caliber 223 Rem, 222 Rem Beginning Serial Number Years of Production 18107488 1978 18148351 1979. This is the Ruger 1H chambered in. Winchester, one of Theodore Roosevelts favorite cartriges. This rifle remains in new condition with hang tags and original. A1. 45 Colt. 45 ACP Production Statistics and Serial Numbers. Ruger Rifles Serial Numbers by Year for Ruger Rifles 1961 thru 1993. UDgdWFkGoqo/Vr6QB-4sfiI/AAAAAAAAS7s/8H9NO0Fmurw/s1600/2016-02-12%2B18_04_37-Bart%2BSkelton%2527s%2Bfactory%2Bengraved%2B10_22%2B-%2BRimfireCentral.jpg' alt='Ruger Rifle Serial Numbers' title='Ruger Rifle Serial Numbers' />To keep things proportional, Ruger elected to go with a shorter rail from Samson. Viewed together, the. That shorter hand guard never seemed to affect my shooting from bags, the bench, or off a bipod. Ruger used a fifteen inch hand guard on the 6. Microsoft Office Project 2007 Ita Torrent more. The scaling seems to work quite well, and if youre so inclined, you can even stick a Key. Mod grip stop to the end of the gun, C clamp it like Costa, and work that bolt like a madman. Im not saying that I did, but I did. Blindfolded, I could still pick out the difference between the 6. On the same scale on the same day, the 6. Since theyre the same gun functionally from the chamber backwards, this weight savings came from everything forward of the magwell. Ruger Rifle Serial Numbers' title='Ruger Rifle Serial Numbers' />Curious about bore diameter relating to weight and such, I pounded a french press worth of coffee, and dusted off some underused math skills, and found that the change in bore diameter didnt matter one bit. What did matter was hacking off a four inch section of 4. As these weight savings came from the muzzle end of things, the. Where this lack of weight manifests itself quite clearly is in the recoil department. This was magnified by the very rigid and not very soft A2 buttstock I slapped on for a lot of the testing that I did. The Ruger buttstock, despite its flaws, does include a very generous rubber buttpad that soaks up some recoil. Without that weight and padding, the A2 equipped RPR was a less pleasant to shoot. Not as bad as shooting 3 12 goose loads out of a light weight 1. Screwing an aggressive brake to the front tamed a lot of this, and going back to the factory stock did as well. With the same brake, and a bit more weight, shooting a lighter recoiling cartridge, the 6. The rest of the gun is identical down to the trigger, and the slight rattle from the safety lever. All of the minor gripes I had about the butt stock on the 6. That shouldnt be a surprise at all since theyre functionally the exact same rifle from the chamber backwards. However, it was at least vindicating to see that both guns had cheek rests with some flex. Im confident in saying that this is a problem across the whole line. But, just like the 6. AR 1. 5 parts. On to the biggest difference. Where the. 3. 08 seemed to struggle against the 6. The 6. 5 shot the 1. A MAX anywhere from. MOA hot, cold, dirty, and clean. No matter what I did, it just always seemed to shoot roughly. MOA at the 1. 00 yard line. The 1. 29 gr. SST was the real stand out though, showing very consistent sub MOA groups. The best five shot group was a touch under. MOA. I ran the 6. I didnt perform a barrel break in of any type, I never cleaned it, and I got it glove melting hot. I treated the. 3. I fed it a lot more variety in ammo, and it just never consistently performed for me. The best group I got out of the RPR in. MOA group from some 1. Hornady Match ammo. But in that same string of testing, I shot a 1. MOA group. Id love to point to some error in my methodology, but I shot both guns on back to back days, off the same rest system, with the same optic, at the same target, at the same time of day. The results of my testing at the 1. Hornady 1. 68 gr. Match. Hornday 1. Match. Hornady 1. OTM Match. Hornday 1. A Max. Norma 1. 68 gr. SMK HPBT. Tula 1. FMJ. Where these accuracy gremlins really start to manifest themselves was out at the quarter mile line and beyond. As Ive mentioned in several of my rifle tests, I have a nice shaded spot at the 4. I shot the Norma 1. BTHP and the 1. 55 gr. A MAX through the RPR for groups and managed to put down a 1. MOA and 1. 7. 37 MOA group respectively. The wind conditions on the day I tested the. I tested the 6. 5 so Im willing to spot the. Keep in mind, though, that the 6. MOA mark at the same distance. I chalk this performance gap up to two distinct weaknesses. The first being that this particular RPR in. I tested more speculation on that later. Thats surprising as. The other weakness, and the one that no gun can really overcome is that the 6. Even with slightly gusty conditions, a shooter has to do a bit more work to keep a. Creedmoor. This is the part where Im going to immediately contradict myself it doesnt matter. There are lots of people, many of them my friends, who are DEEPLY invested in. Love Theme From Flashdance. Between dies, powder, bullets, and pallets of cheapish NATO ammo, the rifle they buy is going to be a. For the new shooter getting into shooting long range precision, Id absolutely recommend the 6. Creedmoor version of this rifle. Factory ammo is plentiful and cost competitive with factory match. More importantly, 6. Fun Math Games For 5Th And 6Th Graders on this page. If you ever decide to get into reloading, youll have plenty of quality brass left over, and reloading for 6. Creedmoor is very well understood at this point. But if youre already invested in. Sub 2 MOA accuracy at 5. If youre in the business of learning how to call the wind,. Id argue that anyone who can shoot a. Creedmoor if ever called to do so. In the world of practical accuracy, sub 2 MOA at 5. This gun never seemed to be a laser in my hands. But given the choice of those two rifles, Id be facing a really tough decision. While the 6. 5 is obviously more accurate, its heavier and more unwieldy to maneuver out of and around vehicles and barricades, where I spend the majority of my time shooting. Keep in mind that I have attended a precision rifle match once in my life.