Ruger Announced a New Carbine

[WSM]

Interesting little gun. Fits a small market segment but the 10 round mag is juicy for all the SHTF'ers. It would make a good mountain gun though. I thought PA limited magazine capacity in rifles (for hunting) but I can't find any mention of it in the Hunting Digest.

http://www.ruger.com/products/gunsit...le/models.html

[762xIan]

Nice to see Ruger is making guns about 15 years behind the times.

The "Scout Rifle" heyday was probably in the late 1990's. Not sure how this one will be received in the marketplace so late.

It is a nice looking rifle though, should be decent.

The Scout Rifle Concept as per the Jeff Cooper definition:

The Scout Rifle concept is the result of the efforts of many under the leadership of Colonel Jeff Cooper to build a better rifle. The Scout Rifle concept describes a light weight (seven pounds max), carbine length, with a removable magazine, general purpose rifle chambered in .308 Winchester with a high quality scope mounted far forward.

Ruger is a day late and a dollar short.

[KPShooting]

I was interested till I saw the price. No way I'm paying $1000 for that.

[762xIan]

No way I'm paying $1000 for that.

That is the MSRP from Ruger, if you look at all the gunmakers the MSRP is usually a few hundred more than what they actually sell for. I would figure this thing would go for somewhere in the $650-850 range.

One thing I don't like about it is the magazine. Why in the hell did Ruger utilize a SINGLE STACK MAGAZINE! The 10 rounder sticks out like a sore thumb.

[wellcraft]

i really don't see the point with this particular rifle. why do i need a 10 rd mag in a bolt action hunting rifle? i'm all for hicap mags but in this case it doesn't make a lot of sense to me. cool looking rifle but not something i'd be interested in buying even if the actual price is in the 600-700 dollar range.

[pacpiper]

I'm definitely confused on who the target market is also.

Looks nice though

[IronButt]

Yeah, I agree. I don't see what the target market for a hi-cap, bolt gun, with pic rail & flash suppressor would be; unless it was a sniper type rifle. Which this obviously ain't.

Like the OP said, it is interesting, though.

[Dave49]

Does the 10 round max capacity of CA and several other states apply only to handguns or does that possibly answer the target market question?

[Prof. Chaos]

i think this may shed more light.

http://gunblast.com/Ruger-Gunsite.htm

[762xIan]

Like I said earlier, Ruger is about 15 years late.

The Scout Rifle concept is interesting, it fills a certain niche, the idea generated a lot of interest in the 90's. A couple of gunmakers answered the call and made some nice rifles based on the idea.

Steyr made the Steyr Scout.

Savage made the Savage Scout.

Ruger already made the Frontier Scout.

Ruger is a day late and a dollar short with this new offering if you ask me, the large interest that was generated in the Scout concept is kind of over.

Link to Wiki article on the Scout Rifle and Jeff Coopers ideas and reasoning on it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scout_rifle