A pair of 10/22 models, a 9mm PC carbine, and a .338 ARC American bolt action.
Surprised there is no .300 BO.
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I’d never have considered a Factory SBR in the past, but the efile process and lack of tax make it a possibility. Those factory Colt SBRs were always so cool, but the old NFA crap made it too annoying.
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Following a company(that i can’t think of their name right now) on Facebook that has made some 9×19 suppressed bolt actions that would be neat except for being somewhat pricey due to not exactly being mass produced.
A Ruger American(or other companies bolt gun) SBR with action length for 9mm or .45 ACP might be a good seller. Guessing it could actually use a scaled up rimfire action also.
And/or start offering an American in .44mag/spl instead of the 77 based version. That could be a hit the straight wall deer hunting market as well as the .44spl suppressed market, probably hog hunters too.
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I’m certainly happy to see these offerings from Ruger. Mainstreaming and “normalizing” SBRs is a critical step forward to my mind. I wish them success. That said, I unfortunately don’t see myself purchasing any of those options.
That American SBR in 5.56 is something that could follow me home, or maybe in .300BLK, but I don’t have a need for .338ARC.
A 10/22 SBR in a conventional configuration and threaded barrel would be something I would pick up in a heartbeat. Not interested in the tacticool model personally.
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338 ARC…
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I just assumed all of the ARC cartridges were attempts at getting long(er) range with short cases and high B.C. bullets, had no idea the .338 comes in supersonic and subsonic versions. Sounds interesting and may take off, but seems like a mistake to not start out with 300 BLK as option.
Looks like the 10/22 SBR has removed the Challenger with 1913 ready to pistol brace rear from the line up.
Neither here nor there on the 10/22 sbr stock, but both of them are heavier than the carbon fiber 16”(which is a blast and surprises me they aren’t pushing more) and I think the 10” barrels won’t be subsonic with high velocity ammo.
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Got to thinking, they should do these.
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The ARC cartridge lineup’s “thing” is that they use Grendel-based cases. They use high-BC projectiles at modest velocity, mimicking larger cartridges (edit: exterior ballistics) in a 5.56 mag length. Their other “thing” is that even though Grendel has more case capacity than 5.56, it operates at lower pressure due to the bolt. For 6mm ARC, Hornady publishes bolt gun data that uses more pressure in order to get the velocity you’d otherwise expect from the case capacity. Kinda like the handloads for Grendel or SPC you read about on the internet that are “totally safe*” but exceed anything from the Basspro shelf.
.338 ARC’s idea is to have subs and supers that operate at a smaller difference in pressure and gas volume between subs and supers, in comparison to .300 BLK. In other words, full time suppressed with no messing with gas blocks or buffers between subs and supers; just change mags. While I know people do that with BLK, there’s a pretty big gas drive difference between subs and supers there, and it is probably at its finest using supers unsuppressed and subs suppressed. Why Ruger is taking this path with a bolt gun, though, I have no idea.
I’ll probably set up a semi- .338 ARC SBR someday like an optimized PSD gun or LVAW to play with that idea.
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