The Ruger American Rifle is a high quality, accurate and affordable bolt-action rifle. Since introducing the rifle a couple of years ago Ruger has expanded the lineup to include the American Rimfire Rifles in .22 long rifle and .22 Magnum as well as a host of centerfire calibers. Most recently, Ruger has teamed up with Redfield to offer American Rifles that come from the factory with a Redfield Revolution 3-9 X 40mm scope mounted in Leupold rings. As you may know, Leupold owns Redfield, so all of the Redfield riflescopes are made in America in Beaverton, Oregon. Although the Redfield scopes are Leupold’s value line, they are high quality optics with fully coated lenses covered by the same lifetime guarantee you’ll find on Leupold scopes. Retailing for a suggested $679.00 this package hits the mark by combining a really good rifle with a really good scope at a reasonable price. The American rifle with Redfield scope weighs in at exactly 7 pounds with a 22” hammer forged, free floated barrel. The rifle features an adjustable Ruger Marksman trigger, two position tang safety a soft recoil pad and the rifles are 100% American made.
I recently had the opportunity to teach a rifle class for a group of gun writers (talk about a tough audience) using this rifle package from Ruger in .308 Winchester caliber. We shot the rifles from up close to 400 
yards, both on the range and through live fire simulators, and I think everyone agreed that these rifles and scopes are accurate and about as trouble free as they can get. Since the American Rifle uses a 4 round detachable magazine we fired 4 round groups instead of the usual 3 or 5 shots when we zeroed the rifles at 100 yards and several of the writers fired groups smaller than 1 inch while shooting prone with bipods. It takes a good rifle and scope (okay, and a good shooter) to do this and it didn’t hurt that we were shooting Hornady’s excellent 155 grain A-Max Match ammunition.
About the Author:
Ed Head is a regular on Shooting Gallery, Gun Stories and Down Range TV. He has worked for almost 30 years in law enforcement, first in the United States Air Force and then with the United States Border Patrol, retiring as a Field Operations Supervisor. During his Border Patrol career, Ed worked in a variety of patrol, investigative and training capacities. Ed has an extensive background as a firearms instructor, having trained thousands, ranging from beginners to police, military and special operations personnel. Having taught at Gunsite for 20 years, Ed first trained there under the world famous shooting school’s founder, Jeff Cooper, then later ran the school as the operations manager for more than five years. Ed lives in Chino Valley, Arizona, where he continues to teach and write.
