Rifle review
Im not a tactical sort of fellow in the sense that I don’t wear 511 clothes, pack an arsenal everywhere I go and live in paranoia and distrust of anyone that doesn’t drive a lifted diesel truck. No, I’m practical. Similar in a few ways, very very different in many others. I have handguns of various types but don’t really shoot them much. I don’t dislike them but I am a hunter so long guns get all of my attention and usually only the flavor that can be used for killing animals to eat.
I think a rabbit trail might be in order here: the “tactical” crowd can from time to time get on my last nerve. I live near some of these types and as well around some less paranoid types. The difference in every day life is huge. You never see them, they are always open carrying and unless 511 makes it, they don’t wear it. The way they dress went from cover to overt as they now al dress the same. Nothing against these folk for dressing they way they do and exercising their right but for heaven sake, lighten up. You are going to die someday, its likely going to be from cancer or old age, not a street fight where your highly customized self built M4 is dumping magazine after magazine on the bad guys. Oh I think preparedness and the 2A are critical but lets be humans shall we?
Anyway, oh yeah, rifle review. The subject material is the Ruger PC carbine. I found myself with one for review and thought Id go ahead and put a few 9MM rounds through it. I don’t actually own anything that shoots 9MM so I had to go acquire some for this thing to eat. Try that now a days, paranoia really does a number on loaded ammo supplies and such. Anyway, I was able to get some and put a few through it. the only magazines that came with it were ruger, although you can change it out to accept glock magazines. I don’t own anything glock either for the record.
The thing is fun, no recoil, not that loud and its pretty darn accurate from what I can tell with open sights. We only put a few magazines worth through it and I will say that I did have one round fail to feed properly but im not sure it was in the magazine right to start with.
The sights are pretty nice, ghost ring I believe they call it, it looks and feels like a regular rifle (Of which I love as I shoot bolt action and lever action primarily) and it is a breakdown model. You literally lock the action open (MT of course) pull a bar forward toward the end of the barrel on the forend and then twist left ¼ turn and pull back. Just like that, the whole thing can be packed in what I think is 20 inches or less. That’s actually nice. We live in Idaho and when hiking its nice to have something with a little punch on hand if your not packing a handgun with you. We got al kinds of stuff here, grizz, wolf, badger, wolverine, black bear a power hungry governor,,,,,,,, im not too worries about the first part of the list, its that last one that starts giving a nod to the 511 crowd. Anyway, it really seems to work well.
As I am primarily a bird hunter, think shotguns, (no, not some stupid useless sawed off thing) and secondarily a big game hunter, most of what I shoot are bolt action and over under or pump long guns. They have semi pistol grips, long forend and cheek combs and pretty good trigger pulls. So something that fits and acts like a hunting gun is welcome and can actually be gotten used to. Frankly this sort of thing seems like an awful lot of fun just to target shoot at (If ever ammo is free flowing and not being hoarded again) and as well, not a bad thing to have around should the lemming southpaw crowd decide to re-distribute some of my wealth (Im not wealthy, noting really to re-distribute).
I can recommend it and in all honesty there’s soo many people talking about its flawless reliability that I am pretty sure the only mis feed I had was probably a bullet not being loaded all the way back in the magazine. I think we’ll keep this one.
