I finally bought myself my 1st hunting rifle. After some research handling different rifles. I found a used Ruger American 308 with a Cabelas 3x12x40 scope. Cant wait to go shooting on Thursday👍
I finally bought myself my 1st hunting rifle. After some research handling different rifles. I found a used Ruger American 308 with a Cabelas 3x12x40 scope. Cant wait to go shooting on Thursday👍
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Right on!!! 308 is a fun calibre to shoot. Is your gun the Ruger American compact? I been looking to trade my m305 for one of those. Got my 1st deer and moose with a 308. Have fun man.
Congrats on your new rifle, I'm sure you will enjoy it.
Standard size has a 22" barrel, the compact model has an 18" barrel and a 12.5" length of pull (LOP)
Found myself a R.A.R. All Weather Compact a few years back in 308Win, love it, tack driving machine. Small and light.
I choose to use 150's in it, the box claims 2820fps and in the Kimber Hunter's 22" barrel they do just that, with the 18" barrel they travel at 2720-2730fps
I would like to get my hands on to another R.A.R. All Weather in 30.06, and re-bore, re-chamber to a 338-06, just a thought that has been burning a way in my head for sometime now.
The fore-end of the stock is a smidgeon flimsy, so I just opened up the barrel channel a bit to prevent the stock from touching the barrel when being fired.
Some folks like to use fillers, epoxy, etc... to help stiffen the stock up a bit, some people like that, but in my mind that just adds weight and that's going in the wrong direction for this guy.