MartiniBelgian wrote on Jul 27^th, 2008 at 12:33pm:


MB & J.D. make some great points! We tend to get caught up in the idea of "keeping up with the Jones" and for whatever reason the Ruger does not seem to be favored. I traded my BSA for Ruger (I should have kept the BSA), then sold the Ruger to fund a CPA (should have kept the Ruger) which I will now be sending off to CPA for an overhaul, not to mention all the extras I will be buying. I did fine on my trade to get the Ruger but felt I would be happier with the CPA. Now that UPS has lost the Ruger neither Shooter_1 or myself will get to enjoy using it for Schuetzen.  
I DO like the CPA, in fact I love the look and feel of it! That said I think I would have been better off using the Ruger for a few years and then moving up if I still wanted to. Of course the Ruger I had was set up ready to go so I didn't have to worry about buying a breech loader, palm rest, hooked butt plate, set it up for sights, etc. If you are starting from scratch you may find the Ruger is not that much cheaper then a used rifle already set up. I still like the idea of starting with a .22 and I should have just used the BSA instead of being in a rush to get a center fire. Oh well, hind sight is 20/20, now I just need to stay the course.

Found a fella with a Ruger # 1 chambered in 38/55 and he tells me it is a factory rifle.  Is this the truth?  From the price he wants it should be a full custom with a built in microwave and hot and cold running women.  YIPES.  If this rifle is on the level what would be it's value in 100 percent condition?

At $2500 maybe it's got TWO microwaves.......

Well, perhaps only one!   

David
Montezuma, IA

TRADE one? 
heck no!

Have one helping with the loading bench, and one on bore cleaning duty... leaving the gentleman of leisure to maximize his trigger time 

Paul F.

Why do these discussions which begin with valid questions and resulting well intended experiences and information sometime degrade to become simple esoteric one liners which have no meaning and which are unrelated to the initial subject matter?

Perhaps we should consider a new and separate category titled "Nonsense", "Who Cares", or even "Street Talk" for those of us who have such urges ?  After all, the public is watching and we don't want to appear to be a crowd of babbling retards, now do we ?

Anyway, the bottom line is this, there are no starter rifles to begin with, only starter shooters.   See you on the line, Harry Jr.

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Now, let me see, where might I find such a person.......maybe masquerading as a crotchety curmudgeon perhaps?

The reason you see many threads morph into our sometimes lame attempts at humor is, usually, that the original topic has pretty well been exhausted by that time. However we don't necessarily want to stop communicating with our friends and so take the opportunity (provided by the slowdown of hard info), to continue the repartee.

We don't necessarily request your participation but we do request your tolerance.
Thank you for your support, Joe

Well Harry, let's just take a look here... I STARTED the thread so I guess I can take a "potshot" at it if I should please and I sure wouldn't begrudge anyone else taking a shot either.  Grins are where you find 'em and sometimes are in damned short supply.  As for the "beginning shooter" it is true I am new to ASSRA type shooting but in the last few years I have won 2 IHMSA International events and set 3 world's records.....What have you done lately?