The Ruger American is a push-feed, rather than a controlled-feed, action. The rifle no longer has twin locking lugs compared to the Ruger 77 rifle. The trigger action is, in some particulars, preferable to the Ruger 77, which is a fine rifle in every way. My rifle, in.308 Winchester...
Ruger decided to offer up an affordable bolt-action for this new crop of freshly minted rifle hunters with the addition of the American Ranch rifle in .450 Bushmaster. Like the rest of the American line it features a three-lug "fat" bolt and a one-piece receiver with a narrowed ejection...
The number of factory match grade long range 6.5 Creedmoor loads is increasing, but that does not mean it is as plentiful as 308 and we had a bit of a struggle to find 4 different loads that were in stock that we could use for testing. We typically do not like to use more than 1 ...