Ruger Introduces the Ruger Precision Rimfire Rifle

1. Shut up and take my money!!!

   • wish it was legal in ny

     • A .22lr bolt action isn’t legal?

       • Threaded barrel?

       • Magazine capacity, buttstock, threaded barrel, and pistol grip all make it illegal not the caliber…. Gotta love that SAFE act goodness.

       • Dude – it’s a BOLT GUN – all those awful AW rules don’t apply. They’ll need a NY/CT package with just a 10 round mag, but otherwise it should be 50 state compliant.

         Happily, my pre-2013 standard capacity mags will work!

       • It’s totally legal. Prohibitions only apply to semi-autos.

     • It is legal in NYS.

       None of the “evil feature” restrictions apply if it is not a SEMI AUTOMATIC WITH A DETACHABLE MAGAZINE.

       This is how we get full bore ARs in NY (albeit with only 10 rounds) – pin the mag and use the Mean Arms or Bear quick loader through the ejection port. Viola.

     • There is a 10-round version and the features test doesn’t apply to bolt guns for NY…

       • your right , bolt actions are ok for now , but it does look scary , and that is the problem with ny

       • Looking scary isn’t a problem with every part of the state except the NY Metro area. None of the police upstate enforce the SAFE act. I have been to the range repeatedly with people toting 30 round mags, pistol grips, etc

       • You’re the only who didn’t bother to actually do more than immediately assume the gun was illegal because it ‘looked scary’ though so…

     • it is legal in NY. Because it’s a bolt action you can have all the gizmos. If it was semi-auto it would be banned.

       • Nothing is legal in NY or California…not even breathing!

         • I think the new Rem. and Mossberg mag feed models are banned in N.Y.

           • Everything is banned there. Even water

2. Right handed only? Now I’m a persecuted minority, Down with Righty!!

   • I’m with you Mike. Ruger, along with many other companies, are losing out on a lot of money by ignoring 10% of the population.

     All we ask is; if you make a bolt-action rifle, than please make a left-handed version.

   • I’m a lefty who shoots righty. I have no idea why, I’m just weird like that. I do a few things left handed, a few things right, and a few things with either hand. Writing is firmly in the left-only category, while shooting is in the right-only, although I’m hoping to get it in the “either hand” category.

   • I keep waiting for a full sized LH Ruger Precision Rifle.

     Still waiting

   • I’m rather disappointed with Ruger not making a LH friendly precision rifle. They would corner the market overnight.

3. If it’s considerably more accurate than ruger’s other bolt action rimfires, and at a reasonable price, i might just buy one of these. Not holding my breath on the accuracy though.

4. MSRP $529!

   • So that means $350 or so in the real world.

     Yes, I am interested in this.

5. while this is cool and all, what’s the effective range of 22lr? i always thought it was 50ft or so. is a precision rifle really necessary at such a range?

   • Most benchrest competitions are done at 50 yards but some guys do 100 yard and even 200 yard competitions. With standard velocity rounds, they start to drop quite a bit after about 75 yards, and you need a 20 MOA rail to shoot much beyond 100 yards.

   • It’s generally considered to have a max effective range of ~150 yards with real world effectiveness at ~80-100 yards.

   • I can pretty reliably hit clays @ 235 yards with my FV-SR and CCI SV. It will teach you to read the wind well, suppressed is great for trigger control/flinch control since it is so quiet, not to mention it is cheap as hell to shoot. Headshots on woodchucks work well at least out to 180 yards or so. They’re honestly a ton of fun.

   • We have a 22LR precision match in the area (greater Triangle/Triad NC area) that goes out to 300 yards. I run a 22 match out to 150 yards, and I think there are a couple more in the state at similar distances. You can learn most of what you need to shoot centerfire at 1000 yards with 22LR at 250-300 yards.

     • Having shot a steel target at 200 yards just eyeballing the hold over, which I think was about 2-3′, the hold over at 300 must be massive.

       • Yep. Hence the 30MOA rail.

     • Where in north carolina is a 22lr shoot Jim I would love to know

       • http://ambushactionseries.com/22lr-precision-rifle-league at https://frontlinedefenseusa.com,
         and http://www.dprc.org/shooting-sports/tactical-rimfire/ (at DPRC.org).

         Jim

   • There are competitions at 200 yards for .22 LR’s.

     I’ve shot a couple of such matches with my Winchester 52B, with globe/aperture sights. It’s a lot of fun – 1000 yard centerfire challenges at closer ranges and lower cost.

6. Magazine capacity, buttstock, and pistol grip all make it illegal not the caliber…. Gotta love that SAFE act goodness.

7. 30 MOA on a .22lr rifle…what next…mounting a Vortex PST Gen II 5×25 FFP scope for prairie dogs that are really waaay out there??

   • Heck yeah! Plugging away in dog towns is a whole lotta fun.

     Aside, I’d love to see them offer this in .22 Mag!

     • Meh, if it works for you then go for it. That is what I use the .17 HMR and .204 Ruger for. In my experience, the .22lr works well up close and personal for prairie dogs and ground squirrels…not at ranges where I would need an additional 30 MOA built into the rifle. If you get one let us know how it shoots…I ‘bin wrong before.

8. A detachable magazine?

   I don’t think Anschuetz or Walther have anything to worry about here…

   • Why is a detachable mag an issue?

     • Well you see, if you gave the Ruger a fixed magazine, it would suddenly compete directly against $1000-4000 target rifles from Germany. But since it uses detachable magazines, it competes directly with other ~$500 bolt-action rimfires…Or something like that. I don’t get it either.

     • Detachable magazines negatively affect accuracy – believe it or not. The same is true in centerfire rifles.

       Further, there is little provision for globe/aperture sights on this rifle. The shroud over the barrel isn’t the place to mount sights – you want to mount them on a receiver or barrel.

       Ruger’s idea of “precision” in this rimfire rifle is sort of a Princess Bride thing – “You keep using that word – I don’t think it means what you think it means…”

       • I honestly don’t see how a detachable magazine would negatively affect accuracy vs a fixed magazine. Seems to me that a closed bolt is a closed bolt and the bullet is long out of the barrel by the time that the “fixedness” of the magazine has an effect on the rifle. (obviously speaking of accuracy. I have no doubt that box magazines add another variable to the overall reliability of the platform.)

         And, all that said:

         What products do Anschutz and Walther make that even come close to competing with this gun?

       • I assume that’s why the vast majority of precision rifles these days have detachable magazines then? To actively hinder their own accuracy for no reason? This thing isn’t targeting Anschutz rifles because that’s a tiny market to chase, Ruger probably sells more rimfire rifles in a month than Anschutz sells in a year or more.
         Personally I’ll likely buy one simply because it’s a neat analogue to the larger RPR.

       • Is it possible to get globe/aperture sights for my Win. 67?

       • Just because some marketing dweeb in an office calls it a “precision rifle” doesn’t make it a ‘precise’ rifle.

         If detachable magazines had even no net effect on accuracy, you’d see the benchrest folks using them, as there are times they’d like to get a string of fire downrange between gusts of wind, as quickly as possible. There’s a reason why you see some benchrest rifles with “load left, eject right” porting on them – so they can single-load and shovel the rounds through as quickly as possible.

         Once more, I have to admonish TTAG readers to get their heads out of their tacti-kewl sand, and look at what the “old fat white guys” have been doing for decades in precision/accuracy. Want to know what the record for single-loading benchrest rifles has been?

         About 0.009″, set back in 1973.

         It was recently broken by a shooter in Texas who threw down a group of 0.0077″ – both of these were at 100 yards.

         In order to compete effectively in benchrest shooting, your rifle better be capable of throwing down an honest, 5-shot 1/4″ group. Most magazine fed rifles, regardless of whether they’re semi-auto or bolt action, won’t do that. 1/2″ – maybe. 1/4″ Not reliably.

         Part of the issue is that in order to get groups this small, you start to worry about the neck tension on your cases, and you want the neck tension to be very uniform (along with everything else about your load). You want the bullet to be launched into the chamber throat as perfectly aligned as possible. This means your bullets will be a bit looser in the case than factory loaded ammo, and you want to gently load them into the chamber straight-in.

         Feeding out of some magazines is going to use the bullet to guide the round into the chamber, possibly pushing the bullet ever so slightly off-center. It might not seem like much, but there’s a reason why so many shooters turn the necks of their cases, and have their chambers cut to have “tight necks” so that they can get the bullet perfectly centered on the bore axis when they launch it. When you start trying to close up your groups under 1/2″, you start having to do these things – because the easy improvements to close up your group size have been done.

       • re: Winchester 67 and globe/peep sights.

         I don’t think it would be worth the money to put a globe/aperture sight setup on a 67. On a 52 or 75, yes, on the 67… no.

         But you could put on a peep sight, and there was one made for the 67/68/69, and I’ve seen it on one Model 67. This is a link to an expired sale of one such sight on eBay; I’m using this link because it has some of the nicer pics I can find:

         https://www.ebay.com/itm/Winchester-No-96-B-67-68-69-Vintage-Complete-Rear-Wheel-Peep-Sight-/253307218129?rmvSB=true&nma=true&si=FHFUqyj111o1hstcmsO4CB0kZTo%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

         A set of globe/aperture sights can cost $350 and up. A simple peep & front post setup is far less expensive…

       • Legitimately you seem to be hung up on the name of the rifle and don’t seem to grasp the entire market it’s built for. Did you do the same for the RPR because it’s not a 45lb rail gun you bolt to a table?
         This rifle is a miniature version of the RPR so people who have one can have a trainer of sorts, or so folks can buy a somewhat more accurate Ruger American Rimfire that mimics the larger and more expensive RPR. Sure, benchrest rifles do this and they do that in their quest for accuracy and that is well and good, but you’d be fooling yourself if you think Ruger is going to spend the time making a 12lb version of the Precision Rimfire with a single shot receiver and globe sights so a vanishingly small market of people can buy it, different markets and different rifles, and Ruger knows which one will make more money.

         So while you talk about TTAG readers needing to pull their heads out of their sand prehaps you should do the same because you can’t seem to figure out this isn’t a bench queen that is generally about as useful as a football bat. If it bugs you so much that Ruger doesn’t rigidly follow your naming conventions then prehaps you could send a letter to Ruger to implore them to change the Precision Rimfire and RPR to the Ruger Somewhat More Accurate But Not Benchrest Accurate Rifle, or RSMABNBAR.

       • The world record rifle that made the 0.0077 group for those wondering. Certainly a rifle that would be a real wonder for anything outside of living on a bench. Can’t see why Ruger didn’t build this instead, sure it would sell tens of units.
         http://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2013/08/inside-look-at-world-record-0077-group-the-gun-and-ammo/

   • Well, my Ruger Precision Rimfire shot .145 groups yesterday. Far better than the best my Anschutz ever did. Sold my Anschutz.

9. I dunno. My rimfire matches are 3 position shoots, not benchrest. Just doesn’t look as practical for that as a good ‘ol 10/22 with the right barrel, trigger and stock.

   • My 10/22 Compact, bone stock except for the upgraded Ruger trigger group, shoot..21 inch groups at 50 yards with Lapua Center X. They are fine rifles, and probably better for non bench competition than the Precision Rimfire. But…I do love the accuracy from my new Precision Rimfire. It is a well made piece of machinery.

10. Sigh………. More tacticool hardware?

11. I have a pws summit t3 build that I love, I feel like this would make a great friend for it.

12. This thing has to shoot. If it can’t shoot with the better CZ’s and Savages, there’s no point. But if it shoots, the chassis helps. The adjustable comb and LOP are good features. You can put a 30 MOA mount or replacement stocks on other rimfires but it helps that it’s part of the package here for a MSRP not much higher than the better CZ’s and Savages.

13. It comes down to one thing. Is it real, or is it a pretender? I would like to think that Ruger was serious.

14. The owner’s manual for the RPR is already up on Ruger’s website. I was thinking about building a 10/22 with a chassis, but this at less than $500 would be cheaper than cobbing together the components.

    For the 10/22: $200 for 10/22; $250 for 10/22 chassis, grip, buttstock, forend; $30 for MOA rail, and $70 for trigger work would make the 10/22 project a $550 rifle (without a barrel upgrade) , where this RPR would come in around $400-$450 with a barrel already threaded for a suppressor and a trigger to adjust to 2.5lbs.

    This seems to have a better barrel lock-up system, and with the handguard is free floated. I think I’ve made my decision.

    • Already on sale for pre-order – 375 at Tombstone and 399 at Sportsman Outdoors

      • I saw the same thing. Went into Tombstone, and they had no idea where that came from. They had none available for sale or pre-order. Got mine from Lone Wolf for $399. Took 3 days to get it.

15. Whatabout iron sights for high school kids that shoot compat it in peep sights type of sights

16. I will definitely get one as a cheap / fun analog to my brand new (Christmas) RPR in 6.5 Creedmoor.

    Just like the M&P 15-22 analog to a full-size AR-15. Love my 15-22! I bet I’ll love the RPR-22, too.

17. So is this the new “Liberty Training Rifle”?

18. Picked up mine today. No chance to shoot it yet, but it is a very well made piece of machinery

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