Ruger American Ranch Gen 2 in 22 ARC, what can it do? A long term shoot, upgrade, and review.

[River Reaper]

I got these from Scheels on sale. They were factory 2nds @ $1.00/round when I bought the first case of 200. They had them for a couple months and they tried to blow them out and I caught them @ $0.75/round with the same lot number. They were only offered in store. I got mine in Billings.

I use Ammoseek to find the best price online. Last year Cabelas/Bass Pro was doing great sales with free shipping for card members every couple of weeks. Once was 20% off so I bought a number of cases. I have a membership to Target Sports USA and get member pricing and free shipping on all orders. Even 1 box of ammo is shipped free so it is a great way to try different options for factory ammo.

Jay

Cool thanks for the advice. I missed the Scheels sale then, as I’m in Billings. Wish they advertised that stuff a little better but it would likely sell out fast. I’ll keep an eye out at those other places.

 

[The Guide]

Cool thanks for the advice. I missed the Scheels sale then, as I’m in Billings. Wish they advertised that stuff a little better but it would likely sell out fast. I’ll keep an eye out at those other places.

They had 204, 22 ARC, 22-250, 6.5 PRC, and 7mm PRC. It was all in store and not advertised. They had pallets of it. Was in January and February if I remember right. Each Scheels does it's own ordering. That's why certain things are never available at your local store but you can some times get them shipped from another store.

Jay

 

[Castle Rock]

They had 204, 22 ARC, 22-250, 6.5 PRC, and 7mm PRC. It was all in store and not advertised. They had pallets of it. Was in January and February if I remember right. Each Scheels does it's own ordering. That's why certain things are never available at your local store but you can some times get them shipped from another store.

Jay

They are pretty revolting to shoot in 22ARC, I can’t even imagine what a 7 PRC would be like

 

[sneaky]

I’m running the AR mag since I haven’t spent time researching upgrades. I very much dislike it and am all ears if you have a recommendation.

I play it on the safe side with what I deem to be the distance to the lands since I seated my 6cm too far one time and, in the field, I had a bullet lodge in the lands and pull out of the case when ejecting a live round (it was my first load recipe and i got lucky and ended up emptying the powder, loading the empty case, and ejecting it fast and it held the bullet).

I have been using the sharpie method and coloring the bullet, then seating it and checking for marks from the lands. If I see any, then i color and seat a new bullet on a fresh load (to avoid using the same bullet and introducing an unexpected factor from a micro adjustment).

Prominent marks from the lands disappear around .01-.025” prior to me considering it the lands as i’ll keep going until the faintest of marks in the sharpie are gone.

It may be unnecessary but I figure if I’m getting good groups and can avoid another issue then I’m good to go. For the RAG2 22ARC, I probably used 8-10 bullets. Once the lands marks disappeared, I used another two bullets to validate the cutoff again.

A few other roksliders listed finding the lands at 2.233 and 2.238 with 77tmk’s. Sierra lists coal at 2.200 on their load data chart.

Lands on my RAR was 2.22 for the 77 TMKs, and 2.35 for the 88 TMKs.

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