For more information about these and other new products check out the Ruger company website.
Ruger’s expanding three lines of popular rifles for 2020 including a new 10/22, a new Hawkeye Long-Range Target and a new Scout Rifle. The Hawkeye and the Scout are offered in fun new cartridges and the 10/22 has a stock that’s sure to be popular in coastal areas.
The Hawkeye Long-Range Target is a bolt-action rifle now chambered for 6.5 Creedmoor. As the name implies this rifle is suitable for target shooting at longer ranges but the stock style makes it a solid hunting platform, too.
At 11 pounds dry the updated Hawkeye isn’t a featherweight rifle but it’s not so heavy that it can’t be hiked around with, either. Most of that weight comes from the heavy profile 26-inch long barrel that will ensure high muzzle velocities and will stay cooler over longer strings of fire.
The 6.5 Hawkeye comes with standard scope mounts and 20-MOA scope rail from the factory. This makes it easy to use basic scope rings.
The laminate stock has a brown finish with black speckles that breaks up the rifle’s lines a bit and makes the rifle look a little less tactical. The stock has an adjustable cheekpiece and accepts stock spacers to adjust the length of pull.
It also has quick-detach sling studs and a modular M-Lok rail along the bottom of the forend for other accessories and bipods. The suggested retail price for the 6.5 Hawkeye is $1,249 so real-world prices should be closer to $1,100.
Next we have the new Scout Rifle, now chambered for 350 Legend. This cartridge was developed for hunters looking for a straight-walled cartridge that works with a wider variety of modern rifles that complies with hunting restriction around the United States.
It makes for an interested Americanized scout rifle suited for deer and other popular game here as opposed to the plains of Africa where the scout rifle was born.
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Weighing in at 6.3 pounds with its 16.5-inch barrel the 350 Scout Rifle is definitely handy. It has a forward scope mount which is a core element of a scout rifle as well as iron sights as a backup.
It comes with a black synthetic stock with two sling swivel studs and feeds from 5-round detachable box magazines. The Scout in 350 Legend is priced favorably compared to other scout rifles at $1,139. That price will be less in stores and online, too.
Finally Ruger’s got a new 10/22 chambered in good old .22 Long Rifle. What makes this 10/22 new is the shark carved into the stock. There are toothy engravings along the forend as well for a little extra grip.
Apart from that it’s a straightforward 10/22, easily the most popular semi-automatic .22 rifle design on the market. It weighs 4.9 pounds, has an 18.5-inch barrel and uses 10-round rotary magazines along with all the other extended mags out there. This rifle is already listing online for $350 or less.
These rifles show that Ruger can be relied on to continuously expand their product lines to cater to specific users, whether they’re taking a bite out of the larger general purpose rifle market or tailoring to niche buyers who really want something specific without having to spend more to get it.
For more information about these and other new products check out the Ruger company website.
The 10/22 is the most reliable automatic.22 LR around. I have several but got first when I was 15. Still shoots well and have shot hundreds of squirrels with it.
Relax haters. If you don’t like it, don’t buy it. I bought my 10-22 over 40 years ago and can’t count the number of “enhancements” I’ve made. Some special ( Volquartsen trigger), some (it’s just so) “Special” (that Boyd’s Barracuda stock in sky blue laminate). Different strokes, you know.
I do not care much for this one, but some guys like fishing guys might, Don’t know, but not my cup od tea. i bought mine when they first come out with a wooden stock, plain jane but i loved it, and i had goos eyes back in 1967, but now i kneed a scope at age 80. That happens also. I just do not like the prices when they get over $200. I am old on social security and could not afford one, when all i get is only $565 a month, and that does not pay all my bills. I just go with what i can afford. Any way mine is still good, and i hit with it every time. Just still as good when i bought it, 53 years ago. Can any of you say you have a gun from that long ago. I made wise choices all my life. i do not regret anything about guns, now girls that is something different, lol. Thank every one for letting me chat a while. i do not have anyone any more to chat with, so thanks a lot and god bless you all, even if you like the gun or not. Oh the doctor thing, lol. I was a baptist minister all my life. I was given a chamce at a PHD, and I like a fool did n ot see what good it would do me, so i turned it. Free. But I live with that one regret. I did make one mistate in my life. Thanks again folks for letting me talk. I have not done this much since I was 60, I gues that is still 20 years ago. Let me know if I offended any one. Not my intention, just the chance to chat about my old gun is all. It has been a good one. Killed lots of squirrels and rabbits that fed me most times. Got to go By the way I did not just get up at ( 5 ) am, but with my insomnia, i did not sleep at all last night, so Good morning hunters all. God bless.
Doc….Keep shooting, Keep reading, and Keep answering with your comments. Hope to keep seeing your name pop up someplace for many more years! God bless and stay healthy and active.
Thanks for your words of advice and wisdom. I have no woman regrets except maybe the one or two I let get away. Regarding your PHD, you made the right choice. Don’t regret not getting one. The amount of time, money and energy required from you would have turned you into a snob and taken away from the important work you were already doing. I have an M.S.E.d and enough credits to have a doctorate, but I didn’t get one either. No loss, except for the aforementioned. A title does not a man make, but rather his deeds and actions do.
I hope that you come back and teach us about the girls, and I genuinely want to listen! I will not pass up a minister’s instruction on this matter.
Please chat again when you get the chance. You’re not offending anyone.
Thanks for your insight and please do continue to post, no offense taken only knowledge from you (appreciated via by myself and others).
I can’t imagine buying one with such a useless feature but I’m sure it will be popular enough to warrant the production. I bought one several decades ago in stainless with a laminated stock, not for the appearance but for the durability. It doesn’t look half bad though, with the dark and light layering and the black scope and 25 round magazine just bring out the appearance of the stock.
Not everyone can be a designer of beautiful automobiles, but give some of these gun companies a laser (like Henry) and they begin engraving all kinds of krap on them. I have always had the maximum respect for Ruger-this kind of junk is not necessary. Bill Ruger would turn over in his grave.
The engraved stock is not my cup of tea, either, but I fail to understand the outrage.
Don’t buy the damn thing.
Obviously you would be driving the cheapest Model A out there, it is nice to have options as far as I am concerned but each to his own, and by the way, I think Mr. Ruger would be extremely happy to know that his company is still alive and doing well in this day and age, he was a very innovative man and I believe you read him wrong, he would be all for offering new things…buy the plane jane if that is your cup of tea and enjoy, I will enjoy the new and upcoming models…
I’d LOVE to see a 10/22 with a slightly heavier FACTORY barrel WITH the iron sights still on. Still can’t figure out people’s obsession with scopes and optics when 98% of the time a 22 with irons will get the job done cheaper, and with more durability. 🙂
Take a look at the 10/22 tactical target model.
Just wait till you’re 65 years old, then you’ll understand.
Some of us cannot focus at the distance of the iron sites on a rifle. A scope allows me to shot accurately. A simple 4X32 is my favorite and I can hit a running coyote with it at well over 100 feet. He wasn’t running straight away either. Without my scope I probably would have missed by a country mile.
So like some of the others have said, you buy it the way you like it and shoot it the way you like it and we’ll do the same. Hope all your shots are in the bullseye.
I am 73 years old I need a optic on everything, and you will too one day.
shark motif 10/22 = lame
Sure is…