{"id":16453,"date":"2013-08-30T02:46:53","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T06:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=16453"},"modified":"2013-08-30T02:46:53","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T05:33:19","slug":"ruger-american-rimfire-new-gun-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/ruger-american-rimfire-new-gun-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruger American Rimfire – New Gun Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Ruger American Rimfire is a leapfrog over every other rimfire bolt gun in the market. It has a wish list of cool and useful features, and it shoots great. <\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The niftiest feature is the replaceable stock cap. It allows you to change the comb height from low, for using iron sights, to high for a proper cheek weld with a scope. You have to try it to understand how much it improves your shooting to have that cheek weld. <\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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You change the stock insert by unscewing the rear sling stud. That’s it. It pops on and off. <\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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You can shoot the gun with open sights, and itt has a machined 3\/8 rail for rimfire rings as well as screw holes for #18 Weaver bases for full size scope mounts. The American Rimfire is on the right and the original American centerfire in .30-06 from our review two years ago is on the left. <\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Despite its smaller hardware, the Rimfire, top, is virtually indistinguishable from its big brother below. <\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The American Rimfire takes 10\/22 mags and has the extended easy to use magazine release. The 10 round mag is flush and the 25 works in the gun as well. The .22WMR will use the rotary 9 round magazine. <\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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There are four models coming out initially, an \u201cadult\u201d and a \u201ckid,\u201d or smaller shooter one. The full size gun will have a 22\u201d barrel and come with both high and low comb stock inserts in a 13.75\u201d length of pull. The smaller gun has an 18\u201d barrel and comes with these other two, shorter inserts. Addtional inserts are available from shopruger.com for $19.95. <\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Our best groups with the gun at 50 yards were with that Federal ammo on the bottom right and CCI Stingers on the top left. The were both around .75\u201d consistently. The worst was the 32 grain Federal Spitfire. All five types of ammo we tried were consistent with each other target to target for the same brand, which is very telling of what we can expect with high end Hornady ammo in the .22WMR and eventually the .17HMR versions. My guess is that these will be well into sub-MOA territory with good ammo. <\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Rob Gramer, who handles new business development for GunsAmerica, went to a special Ruger event at GunSite Academy last week to try the new gun and learn a whole lot about hunting safety and shooting. He is going to write an article about it for us soon. <\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Rob is writing us an article about his experience at GunSite with Ruger. <\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Burris supplied the scopes for the Ruger event, and we also used a Burris Rimfire 3-9 scope on our test rifle. <\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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\nWhat is the best 22LR rifle? Every gun nut gets that question several times a year, and the answer always is a question. \u201cDo you want a semi-auto or a bolt action?\u201d If the answer is semi-auto, most people will suggest the Ruger 10\/22. But until now, if they answered a bolt action, very few if any people would suggest a Ruger. Their 77\/22 is a little known rifle and carries a price of about $700. Today Ruger changed that by releasing what is arguably the coolest and most investment worthy rimfire bolt action in the world. It is called the Ruger American Rimfire, and we got to shoot and test it extensively over the last couple weeks. It features a unique system to change the comb height and length of pull on the gun, and the receiver has both a machined rail for 3\/8\u201d rimfire rings as well as being drilled and tapped for regular rings. All this rides on Ruger’s patent pending Power Bedding (R) system, where the polymer stock has metal fittings embedded in it, just like a polymer pistol. This makes the rifle as solid as a rock for accuracy, and our testing of the .22LR model showed that the rifle has great potential to be a tack driver. It takes 10\/22 mags, and the suggested retail price all four of the 4 models coming out now in both .22LR and .22WMR are $329. Your local gunshop will either have them on the shelf this week, or can order them through their distributors.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe American Rimfire is based on the Ruger American Rifle, which we reviewed almost two years ago<\/a> for SHOT Show of 2012. The rifle division of Ruger is located in New Hampshire and if you talk to the guys who run the operation, they are passionate not just about guns, but also about Ruger. They realized that in order to keep Ruger strong, Ruger had to come up with a new design that took advantage of newer computerized manufacturing, to bring down costs and consumer prices, while boosting performance. There are a lot of new shooters in the market, but their pockets aren’t deep for shooting yet, and with internet reviews only a click away, any new product in the entry level shooter market had better not only be priced competitively. It also has to be darn good. The result was the Ruger American, and it is in fact darn good. It is a ton of gun for a very low price. Now this Ruger American Rimfire appears to be the same high quality gun, plus a whole wishlist of things Ruger came up with to make the rifle more usable and practical for a lifetime of shooting. Here are the features that make the American Rimfire stand out among other bolt rifles in its entry level price range, and even beyond that:<\/p>\n