Look at that new banner up there. Hot damn, that’s one seriously handsome banner. I GIMPed it together last night when I couldn’t sleep. I’m also kicking around a few ideas for a more colorful logo, but none of ‘em are quite what I want them to be. Only the best for me and mine.
SiteMeter says a lot of folks are coming my way to find out about Ruger’s new trigger mechanism, and I wish I had something to tell them. The company seems to be following tradition and doing a seriously poor job of communicating with their customers.
I have very mixed feelings about Ruger. The Bisley revolvers and No. 1 rifles are favorites of mine, and the Model 77 Magnum rifles are drool-worthy, especially with the integral quarter rib on the barrel. From a technical point of view, that barrel is seriously impressive. And Bill Ruger did us a big favor back when he introduced the Model 77 by putting a REAL stock on it. That simple, elegant Len Brownell-designed stock helped kill off the grotesque, cartoonish California-style stocks with their too-shiny finishes, white line spacers, flared pistol grips, rosewood forend tips mounted on an angle, and psychedelic checkering patterns. Amazingly, Weatherby still makes stocks like that, but the rest of the industry has seen the light.
On the other hand, the folks at Ruger severely half-assed their implementation of the Scout Rifle concept, despite having all the proper parts already available. They never have satisfactorily addressed the wandering zero problem with the Mini-14 (the new competition model shows that they understand the problem but don’t want to fix it on the standard guns). High-cap magazines for the Mini are still being needlessly restricted in the name of political correctness. They’re also following in Smith & Wesson’s footsteps by going safety-crazy on their new models (take the hint: a whole lot of consumers hate integral locks). And let’s not forget the late Bill Ruger’s dirty little secret.
Anyways, I still haven’t gotten any concrete info on the new LC6 trigger. If you have, drop me a line.
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