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Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2010
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| Ruger XGI
I for one would be very interested in this gun if Ruger could produce an acceptably accurate, reliable version for around $800-900. Would anyone else here like to see Ruger revive this concept and get it right this time?
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Moderator Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: "Close, but no donut!"
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| Re: Ruger XGI
I'd much rather see them do a straight-up M14 clone in stainless and undercut Springfield Armory's price by 20-25%.
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Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 2,157
| Re: Ruger XGI
NOT going to happen; there's just too many m14 clones out there, they had problems with the copyright thing with springfield, and they couldn't get it to feed properly-besides, they're "happy" with the mini and have no appitite to produce a "decent caliber" semi-automatic rifle; a lot of the lessons learned went into the mini, and now there's a lot of better 308 semis out there for the hunter- you have to remember that the m14 is based on the garand which is a wonderful battle rifle, but too "heavy" for hunting- although some people have toted and taken game for years with one
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Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: St. Augustine, FL
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| Re: Ruger XGI
Ruger has this: http://www.ruger.com/products/mini14Ran ... odels.html which comes in 6.8 what need is there for a 7.62 x 51? Geoff Who notes full bore battle rifles are not light. |
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Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: USA
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Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Morgan County, Alabama "In Dixie Land I'll take my stand."
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| Re: Ruger XGI
A question borne of curiosity and ignorance: what is the Ruger XGI and is there a link to a photo of one?
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Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2004
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| Re: Ruger XGI
type in "ruger xgi in your search engine- it's basically a mini's bigger brother- the front end is slightly different
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Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2010
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| Re: Ruger XGI
The XGI was basically an upsized Mini-14 in .308 caliber that Ruger tried to develop in 1984. They actually announced the gun before Bill Ruger pulled the plug on it because they couldn't get it to meet accuracy standards. There are pics of one here: http://www.perfectunion.com/vb/mini-14- ... r-xgi.html |
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Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Morgan County, Alabama "In Dixie Land I'll take my stand."
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Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Birmingham AL
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| Re: Ruger XGI
So after down-sizing the M14, Ruger wanted to upsize right back up and compete with the parent design? I'm glad I stuck with the "original", though the offshoot-of-an-offshoot might be somewhat desirable from a curiosity/oddball point of view.
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Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2010
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| Re: Ruger XGI
On their website, Ruger has a link where you can email the CEO about what new products you'd like to see them develop. I suggested they take another try at the XGI. http://www.ruger.com As to the idea that there are too many M14 clones on the market to introduce one more, the fact that there are currently 4,230,903.1416 1911 clones on the market didn't keep Ruger from introducing one of those ![]() |
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