pahunter95
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Yeah I never have either blew my mind when I discovered it
Ruger american predator
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Citified
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Wow, that's a first for me! I have several Ruger American Predators and they are all very accurate with factory ammo. 1/2 to 3/4 MOA before I started tuning loads. I guess it pays to check the bore carefully on a new rifle out of the box.
pahunter95
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Yeah I guess shouldn't have too but when I get this one back from ruger I will. I just dropped it off my lgs to get sent back
HRM Johnny
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Thank you for the information. Important stuff. I am looking forward finding out what happens; and what the chambering actually is.So here's a good one for you guys. I bought a ruger american predator in 22-250 as a cheap coyote gun. I have about 100 rounds of nosler 55gr ballistic tip factory ammo that came with another 22-250 I have. So yesterday I bore sighted it at 50 yards and shot and I didn't see a hole in the paper. So I moved up to 25 yards shot and was hitting high. So I adjusted down and went back to 50 again and shot, no hole again. So I went back to 25 shot and it still hit high. So I held the gun as steady as possible and had my buddy adjust it slowly to make sure that it was moving the reticle.(pulled the scope off my other rifle when I put my nv on so I was sure the scope was fine but just wanted to make sure). Shot 1 more time at 25 yards and it went in the same hole as the previous shot so that concluded that range day. Irritated trying to think of what this issue is I made sure that there was rifling thinking for some odd reason there wasn't but there was, so I figured I'd try another scope and the one currently on the american I'd put on my bergara 22-250 that I know shoots great. Fast forward to today after sitting in the tree stand all morning thinking about this problem child of a gun I made it back to the field to shoot. Started at 50 yards again bore sighted the new scope shot hit top of the paper. Adjusted down hit top of the paper just right this time, like 8" right. Shot 1 more after adjusting down and hit top of paper but 12" left of the previous right shot. So I tried the bergara, bore sighted and shot was 3" left if bull, adjusted and put it in the bull so I knew it had to be gun related. Came back home and was wiping down the ruger to put it away to call ruger tomorrow to send it back to see if they could figure it out and I got the idea to see if the bore size was wrong. Well I grabbed a 53gr vmax to drop down the bore and low and behold she rattled the whole way down into the action. Baffled and thinkin it was maybe a fluke I grabbed a 50gr blitzking and it did the same. Pulled out the dial calipers and mic'ed the bore .241. Hoping I didn't get a baffle strike in my suppressor gonna tryn get ruger to pay for shipping and any possible damages to my can and call silencerco to see what to do. Can't wait to see what ruger says tomorrow when I call. Oh and on top of all this first time loading the ****** rotary mag a tab that holds the mag together broke off and now the mags separating. This is my 7th american and all prior have shot incredibly well for the price of em. Wish me luck fellas
pahunter95
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I honestly doubt ill even know because they lady I talked to at ruger was dumber than a box of rocks and I just inspected my suppressor I was using and I pretty much struck every baffle but silencerco is super self and gonna get it sent back tomorrow. Ruger said 8 weeks til I get the gun back unfortunately.
HRM Johnny
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I think we have all experienced this. Customer service people know nothing about the product and/or its use.
