Either way.. this rifle does not interest me one bit, it was made by cutting corners to compete with the 770 and Axis/Edge. I buy guns I like.. not the ones with the cheapest price tag.
I am not going to argue with the concept of buying the rifle with the cheapest price tag. It is a common occurence.
But... I want to know what corners were cut, to build this rifle.
From my point of view, I'm seeing a new design. If you introduce something new, what corners are being cut?
It's like the Marlin X7 rifles. From the very beginning, they designed the rifle to be a great value at a low price point. To do so, they had to figure out how to include the features they wanted, while keeping labor and machine time to a minimum. They didn't take an existing design, and start cutting corner to get the cost down (*cough* Savage *cough*
). They created a new design, where they could provide a decent rifle at a low price point (by engineering it that way to start with; not modifying an existing design).
It's an ugly bugger, and I don't plan to buy one. But, I anticipate the Ruger American being an
affordable rifle, built better than most of its competition; rather than a
cheap rifle that had corners cut to get the cost down (*cough* Remington *cough*).
