New Ruglin Model 94

[Jeff H]

I understand inflation...But doesn't it seem that "we", in the gun world have experienced something much more than the inflation rate that other sectors have experienced, since March 2020?...

That's what I'm talking about - more than inflation. Through the nineties, I was pretty poor, but I was able to entertain myself well, because shooting wasn't an expensive hobby. Scraping up ten bucks for a hundred primers was, well, about an hour's pay. I'm far from poor today, but I'm not making a hundred bucks an hour either. It IS outta whack.

All the same, I don't begrudge a guy sucking it up and paying the ransom, but I'm just confused about why so many seem so happy about it and rationalize that everything else cost so much more too. I've owned a LOT of Rugers over the years and can't say I've ever had one which didn't need work (not just a trigger job) right out of the box. I put up with it because they were within my means. I surely hope for what Ruger is charging today they are making much better guns than the last few I got from them.

I will let it go at that and try not to spoil the celebration going on here.

 

[fiver]

at 800 bucks i'll be interested. [like i need a 5th 44 lever rifle]
at $1200 they won't need to make too many.

 

[L Ross]

I look at my beautiful, elegant, sleek model 1894 Marlin .38-40 and ask myself, why, with all of the wonderful, accurate modern computerized machinery can't a gun manufacturer make a product as good as they did in the early days of the twentieth century? Fat, bloated, rounded, pregnant looking stocks, weird checkering patterns. Nope, no thanks, I think it is unattractive.

 

[RBHarter]

The answer to the question isn't in the in the 15 min it takes the duplicator to plop out another $80 Boyds Prairie Hunter 98 stock or the next 15 minutes manual spends with the pad , 80% sanding and boxing. It's the final fitting, bedding , channel scraping, magazine relief , bottom metal fitting and the hours of final finish before the 12 coats of oil go on over a couple of weeks . Of course you can just knock the fuzz off and dunk it in a pan of urethane. The polishing that was once done as final fit is now 4-6 hours removed replaced with 20 min 320 is close enough if most of the tool marks are gone and bead blasted black parkerizing .