Damn. I didn’t look at the current gen 1 price. I was comparing to what I paid for mine.Seems all the Ruger rifles have gone up in price. The Gen 2 isn't much more than the current price for the Gen 1, and an RPR now starts just under $2k. Glad I got mine when I did.
I guess my brain is still stuck in pre-Brandon-induced-inflation era. I think I paid a little over $400 for my gen 1 RAR Predator.Yeah. Cheap rifles now cost what the upper end models cost 20ish years ago.
The first question is easy to answer. AR mags are cheap, plentiful, reliable, and the target market already owns a ton of them. AI mags are neither cheap, nor plentiful- and if the 223 AI mags are similar in design to the 308 mags, the follower is a joke compared to the AR mag design. And, the target market will need to invest in expensive, unreliable magazines that don’t crossover to their other rifles. (Before anyone gets too butt hurt, the number 1 issue I have observed at PRS events can be boiled down to “AI mag followers suck donkey balls, and the mags are prone to barf cartridges into the open action upon seating, or allow the cartridge to nose dive causing a failure to feed.”)Include the courtesy link darn it
Edit: why do they always make the 223 use ar mags. The 204 reportedly is ai pattern, so why not enable the use of actually good 223 ammo instead of just bad light bulk fodder? The fudds can shoot crap ammo from an aics mag just as well as from an ar mag.
And why not make the 243 at least an 8 twist instead of 9 and capping it at reliably 100 grains ammos.
I was the one that said twice the price. Not challenged. Well, not usually anyway.Some of you are fucking challenged. The price isn't twice the price, the difference between the gen 1 and gen 2 ranch is $60... SIXTY DOLLARS.
But it should be!The larger answer, which encompasses both questions, is that the average SH member is not the target market for this rifle.
I was the one that said twice the price. Not challenged. Well, not usually anyway.
Just didn’t realize they had gone up so much on the price of the Gen 1s.
This why I am trying buy all of my toys before retirement.When T1x’s came out around ‘19, I think they were around $499. By the time I got mine in early ‘23, I was $675 out the door.
Makes one try not to think about what his 401k is actually worth…..
All I can say is I hope you’re right on the street price vs MSRP delta. I’m gonna go find my ‘tard handler and be quietly skeptical in the corner now.Retarded. Here’s some actual street prices. $400 for a standard that has a $599 MSRP and $460 for a ranch that has a $669 MSRP.
Use your brains people, it’s not that damn hard.
The gen 2 ranch should be a little over $500 street price.
When they came out 11 years ago the cheapest you could get one for was about $325 or so, so given over a decade of everything going up in price and Covid and inflation driving stuff up $75 increase in street price is jack shit.
All I can say is I hope you’re right on the street price vs MSRP delta. I’m gonna go find my ‘tard handler and be quietly skeptical in the corner now.
I do hope you’re right though.
I meant for the new ones. All I could find was Ruger’s MSRP of $729.You can look up any Ruger product on their site and then look up street prices of that part number. I even posted two examples.
I meant for the new ones. All I could find was Ruger’s MSRP of $729.
Based on other models pricing I think they're retail for $550 to $600 after they become readily available. The stock upgrades they list don't really do anything for me. My current one is going to go in chassis after I get a new scope for it (but my son may get it as is) and for the current price point I don't think it would be feasible to have a full length bedding block in the stock. If the cerakote is anything like the one on my go wild it will be roughly applied. But I am liking the fluted barrel. All things considered if I'm picking a new rifle to start another hunting rifle to build from the gen2 would be on my list depending on the caliber I went with. I'm wanting a long action and until some makes a chassis that uses AI mags that kind of pushes the Ruger american out of the running.I meant for the new ones. All I could find was Ruger’s MSRP of $729.
Would be wise if they did, but good questionDoes anyone know if the action footprint for the gen 2 is the same as the gen 1? Will I be able to use an aftermarket stock for the Ranch AR version like the MDT LSS-XL gen 2? Furthermore will the timney trigger still be compatible?
I called Ruger customer support and the guy said he and his manager didn't know the answer to that and that I should ask these third party manufacturers like MDT? WTF?? Ruger are the ones who made the rifles.
Would be wise if they did, but good question
I got basically the same answer yesterday when I called to ask minus the "go ask aftermarket companies if our action inlets are the same" LOL. That's crazy. I guess the tech guys haven't submitted that info to the script for them to read off of.
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Street pricing on buds. Looks like 450 Bushmaster and 204 are only $528.99
Elaboration? Are you saying they are good or bad for $500?Finger banged a Gen 2 today.
I don’t have much to say other than I’m not sure what else I expected for $500.
Elaboration? Are you saying they are good or bad for $500?
I was able to check out a gen 2 ranch model today. It looks like they should drop into gen 1 chassis, everything about the action footprint looked the same.
Holy shit that was one clanky rough action though. More so than the gen 1’s that the shop had. I’ll probably still buy one as a beater when the ARC comes out unless something better is announced but damn did it feel like a piece of shit.
The stock was complete Tupperware trash and was pressed hard up against the right side of the barrel. That’s easy enough to fix by throwing it in the trash where it belongs and putting it in a KRG Bravo assuming it does indeed drop in.
On the gen 1s, I took the bolts apart, made up a wooden dowel insert so that I could chuck them up on a drill, and ran them on my 2x72 belt grinder with a Scotchbrite belt until those machining marks were gone, then buffed them. Also polished the raceways with sandpaper and then the buffer. Made a huge difference in smoothness, but no amount of polishing is going to fix the sloppiness you guys are talking about.The action was impressively clunky. Raceways were rough and manipulation was sloppy. It was notably worse than I remember the Gen 1s being, and I was never particularly impressed with those either.