dep wrote:
>
> On Monday 17 September 2001 19:13, burns wrote:
>
> | I was under the understanding that the 30:30, 308, 3006, 303, etc.
> | were all 30 caliber bores but had differences in the design of the
> | cartridge. The history of the numerical designation varies, as an
> | example the "30 ought 6" was supposedly first designed in 1906.
>
> not exactly. your description of the .30-'06 is correct. but the
> mini-30 uses the 7.62x39mm russian cartridge. ruger made the bore
> diameter too small. as a result, it is inaccurate and in some cases
> dangerous.
I'm just back from spending Saturday as a part of the volunteer
effort in NYC so I've been lurking and enjoying this thread. It
was an incredible experience. I'm a New Yorker by birth so when
they attack your home you have to go.
As far as Ruger is concerned, I worked on a project some time
ago now involving the Ruger M77 hunting rifle. They made
approximately 1,100,000 of them. Only problem was they could go
off just leaning up against the wall. On the advice of their
lawyers they mounted a retrofit campaign with adds in all the
outdoor and hunting mags asking owners of those guns to fill out
a little coupon with the serial numbers of the guns they had and
they would be sent free a "kit" ( which consisted of a small
allen wrench and a set screw ). After about 100,000 kits had
been sent out, old man Ruger decided to pull the plug since he
felt it was bad publicity and might hurt sales. That left
approx. 1 million rifles unfixed.
We got some letters such as: "I was sitting in a duck blind and
had the gun propped up behind me. It just went off! I realized I
was ok because I heard the shot and I was still in one piece."
If any of you happen to have a Ruger M77 - beware. You might not
be so lucky. And that's not the only kind of defective gun we
dealt with. There are lots of other ones out there.
Warren
Live from New York on Saturday Night
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