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If you are hunting critters, or just plinking, you’ll respect what the American Rimfire can do.<\/p><\/div>\n

Ruger knows the rimfire market.\u00a0There\u2019s a lot to say about Ruger\u2019s latest addition to the rimfire line. They run off of the 10\/22 magazine and are tack drivers.\u00a0 The rifles are lightweight, indestructible and inexpensive.\u00a0That last part is hard to wrap your head around, considering that they\u2019re made in the US. But that\u2019s at the heart of Ruger\u2019s mission.\u00a0Ruger<\/a> makes affordable guns.That\u2019s easy to see. But they also fight to preserve American manufacturing.\u00a0They\u2019ve just opened a new plant in Mayodan, North Carolina and are ramping up production in an area that\u2019s been decimated by the decline of the textile industry.<\/p>\n

Forgive me if I get a little patriotic here, but this hits close to home.\u00a0I come from this part of the country.\u00a0I\u2019ve watched the textiles mills shut down.\u00a0I live in a rural part of Virginia, just two hours north of Ruger\u2019s new plant.\u00a0The economy here has been headed south for decades. We have high unemployment, empty sprawl and little hope.\u00a0We have a lot in common with Mayodan. Or we used to.<\/p>\n

When Ruger went to Mayodan, they saw opportunity.\u00a0When the textile industry pulled out, it left the entire infrastructure intact. Ruger found a state that needed economic development.\u00a0Rockingham County was full of underemployed (or unemployed) skilled workers.\u00a0Ruger bought the empty shell of a yarn-dying facility that had closed up shop in the 90s and retrofitted it for the production of firearms.<\/p>\n

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This is the line where American Rimfires are made.<\/p><\/div>\n

This is a part of the country that still uses firearms to put food on the table.\u00a0These men and women know guns. Ruger and its product line were welcomed with open enthusiasm, and the community seems to see the new plant as an opportunity and not the political albatross gun makers are made out to be by politicians in the northeast.<\/p>\n

The factory is pretty impressive. From the outside, it looks like the rural south. You have to know where you\u2019re going to find the nondescript brick building tucked in the rolling Appalachian foothills. Yet the inside would defy the rest of the country\u2019s preconceptions of the south. It is sterile and efficient, a model of lean manufacturing.\u00a0Ruger currently has one line dedicated to the production of the American Rimfires that is about the size of a long grocery store isle. Teams of workers move between CNC machines and assembly, handling all aspects of production. Every rifle is test fired on a range just a few feet over and immediately brought back, packed up and loaded.\u00a0At the current pace, this one line can put out 400 rifles a day.<\/p>\n

All of the American Rifle\u2019s milling, bluing, cold hammer forging of barrels, function testing\u2026it all happens here, on the line in Mayodan. And there\u2019s a lot of room for expansion, and it is a true expansion, not a relocation.\u00a0Ruger\u2019s line in New Hampshire has no little for expansion.\u00a0Its Arizona facilities are getting tight, too. Each new gun Ruger introduces brings a new interest to the existing product lines, so very little drops from production.\u00a0So when Ruger was considering how to move forward<\/a>, they new they would have to add more floor space. The North Carolina facility had everything they needed intact, and they closed on the building on Labor Day of 2013, and had the first gun off the line two months later.<\/p>\n

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The Mayodan American Rifles sell really well in the State of North Carolina.<\/p><\/div>\n

The American Rimfire<\/h2>\n

I\u2019m a Ruger fan. I\u2019ve owned a couple of 10\/22s in my time, and I consider the Take-down to be the pinnacle of affordable automatic rimfire rifles<\/a>. When Ruger announced the American Rimfire, I wasn\u2019t sure that I saw the point. I own an American Rifle, too, and I respect it for what it is, but I wasn\u2019t sure why we needed another bolt-action rimfire.<\/p>\n

The answer came to me easily enough.\u00a0The American Rimfire line is a bit larger than the 10\/22 (with an overall length of 41 inches).\u00a0It runs off of the same magazines, which means either 10 or 25 rounds. As a bolt action, it is inherently more reliable. Slower, but more reliable.\u00a0And the American Rifle is a tack driver.<\/p>\n

My take on the American Rimfire series is this: they are serious fun guns for people who want affordable accuracy. The 10\/22 may be one of the best all-around rimfires ever made, but it is small. I\u2019ve never gotten good gas mileage out of my 10\/22. Running the bolt on the American Rimfire makes me slow down a bit. I\u2019m a bit more likely to feed it match grade ammo and call my shots down to the inch.<\/p>\n

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The rear sight on the American Rimfire should be familiar to Ruger fans.<\/p><\/div>\n

We\u2019ll have a full review of the American Rimfire up shortly. I liked the American Rimfire so much that I bought it and had it threaded. Running this rifle with a Silencerco Sparrow is the quietest rimfire platform I\u2019ve ever shot.<\/p>\n

The Mayodan factory is clearly a good thing for Ruger. They\u2019ve got something cooking there that they wouldn\u2019t let us see. It is frustrating, but understandable.\u00a0 Ruger\u2019s philosophy is actually prudent. They keep a seriously tight lid on things until they\u2019re just about ready to ship. Why run reviews or news here, and Ruger is weeks away, or months, or years (as is the case with some companies)?\u00a0Ruger has assured us that we\u2019ll have the news on what\u2019s coming, and the gun soon after.<\/p>\n

At the rate they\u2019re expanding, Ruger has room to grow. The new factory has 220,00 square feet of floor space.\u00a0There are currently about 100 folks working the new plant, and they have room to 400 to 500 more.\u00a0Growth is inevitable. And all of it\u2014from the sourcing of springs, polymers, and steel, to the milling and cold hammer forging of the barrels\u2014feeds a sustainable economic model that benefits all of us.<\/p>\n

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If anything is wrong with the gun, the adjustments can be made quickly.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Stacks of blued barrels are returned to the line.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The bolts, after bluing, have that deep rich sheen.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The only robot in the Mayodan plant lifts barrels for cold hammer forging.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Ruger’s drilling machine bores a pilot hole for the hammer forge to follow.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The barrel blank before and after drilling.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The mandrel and hammer for the forge.<\/p><\/div>\n

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After rifling, the barrels return to the line.<\/p><\/div>\n

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A rack of finished bolts is ready to be blued.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The receiver from start to finish.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The bolts are machined from billets, too.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Rimifires packed and ready for shipping.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The test range is built from shipping containers and is right beside the production line.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The test range is used for function and accuracy testing of every single rifle that comes off the line.<\/p><\/div>\n

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There are bins of magazines in the range just waiting for rounds.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The rifle shoots to point of aim with predictable reliability.<\/p><\/div>\n

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