Any Ruger "Red Label" fans?

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jrfoxx

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Just got ahold of my Dad's Ruger Red Label 12 and 20 gauges. I used to use them both a lot for hunting and skeet/trap when I was younger, Great guns.Very nice to look at IMHO, and they always seemed well balanced and easy to swing.Anyone else out the have one or a fan in general, just curious (also kinda looking for an excuse to show it off....hey, at least I'm honest about it :)) as I havent really ever seen any around for sale, or being used by anyone else (I see gunbroker has a few, but they arent cheap.)?
Anywho, here a pic of the 12 ga if anyones interested:
oops, upside-down kinda sucks, I'll have to retake and repost pic later, sorry, didnt realize I did that. :)
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I have a 20 with the straight english grip and 24" barrels. Have taken everything from woodcock,quail,and grouse through pheasant and even a turkey or two. I think it is balanced and swings well. Mine came with all the standard chokes and I have curly walnut on the stock. All in all,a nice gun. I don't see very many used ones for sale, so I think most are satisfied with theirs.
 
I have a 12ga Sporting Clays that I really like, it shoots where I look and has never given me a problem at all over many many thousands of rounds.
 
Great post. I am always looking to get a nice O/U, had and traded a few, but they just get more and more expensive. I am partial to Beretta, but Ruger was another consideration.

So - are they nice? Will they hold up? The looks are fine BTW!
 
shield20- I'm only 5'5" and like 150lbs, and when I was using it to hunt birds and shoot skeet and trap as a kid, I was more like 5' 110lbs or so and I found it to be very comfortable, controllable, accurate, and recoil was felt lower than many other models/types of 12 gauge I have fired. I used to routinly shoot 100-200 rounds (of ammo) in trap/skeet in a day, and my shoulder would only start to feel in toward the end.They are very well balanced and this one has fired I dont know how many hundreds ( or thousands very possibly) of rounds and is just like brand new.I would certainly never consider getting rid of it for any reason as I dont really see that I could get a much better gun (for me at least) for anything near the cost of the Ruger. I have to admit that I've heard nothing but great things about the Baretta's though, and they are also VERY nice looking/feeling guns also.

-crap, I really need to get some new camera batteries to fix that upside-down pic though.......:)
 
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I am a little bigger and probably wider than jrfoxx, I am 5'8" on a tall day and 195 pounds. My Red Label beats me up pretty good after a few rounds. 4 or 5 rounds of skeet is not bad at all, but get into 12-20 rounds of skeet in a day and a couple more pounds on the gun would be welcome. It kicks quite a bit harder than a Citori and about the same as a field grade 686 if not a little bit harder. My gun is also quite light, just a hair over 7 pounds. I must have gotten a really light set of wood on mine, most are closer to 8 pounds and don't kick as bad as mine.

The gun holds up great, no worries there.
 
The Ruger o/u in 12ga was my daughter's first "real" shotgun. When she started clays, she was 5'2" @95lbs (soaking wet). At 24 and 5'6"@115lbs she still loves to shoot that Ruger. Rabbits and teal are her favorite birds to bust.
She tells me its the swing of the gun that she loves and the easey target acquisition.
 
Here's the 20 Ga counterpart to the 12Ga I posted originally now that I,ve gotten around to cleaning and taking a pic.
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My daughter has been shooting the Red Label O/U (12ga) for several years and simply loves it. She's 5'4" and 100 pounds soaking wet. This is her sporting clays gun of choice.
 


This is mine in 12 Ga. I like it and would never sell it, but I'm partial to my Browning Citori's. The Ruger does balance very well. Bill T.
 
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