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Ruger Discontinues many models

On another forum someone claimed Rugar plans to bring back most of these models. They are trying to sell off inventory of other models. Whether this is accurate information or not I cannot say.
 
Since Bill died it's been all lawyers and accountants at Ruger.
Once the most Joe Everyman company on earth.

All my Rugers came to me as ugly ducklings that cleaned up VERY well if you gave them love.
 
Well let’s be rational. The SP101 and the GP100 have shelf lives somewhere between 500k and 1M rounds before they remotely need a rebuild.

So yeah, they’ve saturated the market with enough hardware to last several millennia.

It’s no wonder they are scaling back some production.
 
Robert N said:
Well let’s be rational. The SP101 and the GP100 have shelf lives somewhere between 500k and 1M rounds before they remotely need a rebuild.

So yeah, they’ve saturated the market with enough hardware to last several millennia.

It’s no wonder they are scaling back some production.
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That's immediately where my mind went also. Where as everyone is going to need another American in 5-10 years.

I'm glad I bought this Hawkeye Compact last winter while they were still available.

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Robert N said:
Well let’s be rational. The SP101 and the GP100 have shelf lives somewhere between 500k and 1M rounds before they remotely need a rebuild.

So yeah, they’ve saturated the market with enough hardware to last several millennia.

It’s no wonder they are scaling back some production.
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Agreed.

I'll never wear out my GP100. I have 40 more rounds out of 100 of some old Winchester 180 grain Silver Tips. Its gotten about 200 rounds of full load 158 XTP's, and a lot of 38 special. Going forward, I'll mostly load 125 grain in .357 at moderate pressures. It will eat a lot of those before I run into problems.

Even my LCP. The life before stuff starts to wear is 1500. I have 500 down the bore and shoot about 60 a year currently.

My 10/22 is turning into a project anyway.
 
Got a m77 Hawkeye in 338. Gave away my redhawk 44 4inch when I left Alaska and recently sold my sp101. Maybe I should have held on to those wheel guns
 
Damn this bums me out. I’ve been looking for a lefty 308 Hawkeye, but they don’t seem to be very common, and cost an arm & a leg when they can be sourced. It was the only lefty Mauser action in commercial production. Now there’s none.
 
This is heartbreaking, but it's nothing too surprising. They've struggled to produce some of their most iconic models (Number 1, etc) for years. They started making limited runs, then down to one caliber per year. Reminds me of Savage with the 99 and Remington with the 700. The market is flooded with all kinds of product ranging from boutique to custom, to hyped up garbage. And unfortunately most consumers care less about country of origin than they do about some of the other niche markets. It seems like most American companies haven't been able to remain relevant enough and react quickly enough to their changing customer base.

Subaru and Nissan vs GM and Ford
 
Anybody else hopeful that maybe it’s part of a strategy to move that production out of the northeast? It wouldn’t be surprising to see them come south or maybe west to a more friendly environment. They could probably drive some cost down and improve the product if they get away from casting and into cnc.
 
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