The venerable Ruger Red Lable returns. Ruger hasn’t made the Red Label for about three years, but now it’s back, rested and ready. Externally, it’s hard to see what’s changed, but in their press release (after the jump) Ruger claims a “refined” mechanism a more centered center of gravity and reduced recoil. It also comes with a set of five Briley chokes, so there’s that, too . . .
Southport, CT – Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. (NYSE: RGR) announces the launch of the newly redesigned Red Label over-and-under shotgun.
Known for years as a top choice of American hunters and clay shooters for its world-renowned rugged construction and handsome American styling – the Red Label returns.
The shotgun now features refined inner workings, a new center of gravity and reduced recoil. These new improvements deliver improved comfort and an enhanced shooting performance.
Shooters that have frequented the woods, fields and clay courses know the Ruger Red Label shotgun has been a reliable performer that swings easily. The new 12 gauge Red Label has a redistributed center of gravity for even greater instinctual swing and pointing. Two-inch extended forcing cones, maximum back-bored barrels and a soft Pachmayr buttpad enhance the shooting experience with reduced recoil. The Red Label’s familiar, low profile receiver reduces muzzle climb because the centerline of the bore is closer to the gun’s center mass. The new Red Label makes for an extremely comfortable shooting shotgun in the field or on the range.
“After 32 years of production, we put the Red Label on hiatus in 2011,” commented Ruger President and CEO, Mike Fifer. “We knew we could employ newer technology, improve the design and deliver a better performing Red Label. We have done that and restored the Red Label as the best American-made, over-and-under shotgun on the market.”
The Red Label features an American Walnut stock with a 1.5” drop at comb and a 2.5” drop at heel. Red Label shotguns are available with 26”, 28”or 30” barrels and each model features a 14.5” length of pull. The new models retain the Red Label’s classic lines and good looks, which are further enhanced by the new stainless steel top lever. The suggested retail price for all three models is $1,399.
Each shotgun includes a custom molded, semi-soft case, five Briley chokes (two skeet chokes and one full, one modified and one improved cylinder choke), a premium-quality Briley choke tube wrench and a safety lock.
For more information on the 100% American-made Ruger Red Label shotguns, or to learn about the extensive line of award-winning Ruger firearms, visit Ruger.com or Facebook.com/Ruger. To find accessories for Ruger® Red Label shotguns, visit shopRuger.co
Features:
- Automatic, two-position tang safety/barrel selector provides instant visibility and a ccessibility.
- Finely polished, stainless steel receiver is corrosion-resistant and has no exposed pins or screws.
- Reliable, single mechanical trigger that allows for firing the second barrel without recocking and features rebounding hammers for easy opening.
- Sleek, compact locking system is considered to be among the strongest ever built for over-and-under shotguns.
- Precision matched, blued alloy steel, cold hammer-forged barrels made of high-strength chrome-molybdenum steel feature 2″ forcing cones and maximum back boring for superior recoil reduction and more uniform patterns.
- 1/4″ dovetailed, free-floating, ventilated rib with brass bead front sight is stress relieved, contour-grounded, precisely fitted and silver-brazed (not soft-soldered) to the finished monoblock.
- Beautifully crafted, cut-checkered American Walnut stock features a traditional pistol grip, tapered, slim forend and a stainless steel latch release.
- A soft Pachmayr® buttpad is mounted on the 14.5″ length of pull stock, which features a 1.5″ drop at the comb and a 2.5″ drop at the heel.
- Five steel-shot compatible, screw-in Briley® chokes and wrench included, featuring two skeet chokes and one full, one modified and one improved cylinder choke, plus a premium-quality Briley® choke tube wrench.
- Also includes: custom molded, semi-soft case; safety lock
- Suggested Retail: $1399.00
Well lately I’ve found a new appreciation for used, classic guns. So now I hop on Armslist and browse or go to my LGS and check the back racks I used to ignore. Just picked up a Savage model 99 that I found at by chance. Paid cash. Not something that can do anything better than anything else I already have, but I like the Americana associated with it.
Lots of online research. Forum reviews are pretty unbiased. You can usually differentiate between “new” gun guy reviews, “experienced” gun guy reviews, honest reviews and biased reviews.
Youtube reviews. Same thing as for forum reviews.
The only publication that I like for gun reviews is Gun-Tests magazine. Unbiased reviews. I combine these and that’ll help me decide whether or not I should get what I was interested in…………the reason I DON’T own a Marlin 1894 (FG quality) or an EAA Witness Hunter (customer service)!
I make my decision based on price, reliability, and cost and availability of ammo. Resale value and availability of model specific accessories like holsters and magazines. Recently my biggest problem has been finding the guns I want. My local shops either cant get them in or they sell out as soon as they do.
People often say “I wouldn’t touch that with a 10 foot pole!” Well, this is clearly the type of incident calling for a few ten foot poles if the taser doesn’t do the job. Guns just aren’t supposed to be the preferred method to take a delusional person without a distance weapon into custody. Time to put “10-foot pole racks” on some of the squad cars, apparently. Oh, and what happened to the Big Nets?
This reminds me of the White House Uniformed SS with no shotgun loaded for vehicle stoppage. Where are the tools? Why is the repertoire so limited. Is this just about guys wanting to look minimalist? I really don’t get it. Is Dallas so overrun with killers that two guys can’t take an hour to reel in a delusional fellow?
“And if you need another reason, just think how much you’ll piss off Diane Feinstein by buying one.”
I bought a Beretta 92 Compact today (13+1), and one of the reasons why I bought it was because I knew deep down in my soul, that every time someone buys a real gun without a magazine limit or bullet button, DiFi dies a little on the inside. Its a great marketing line, for me anyways.
As I commented in an e-mail to RF the other day, I think there is a recognition by the antis that they are losing the gun ban battle. Attempting to reverse their fortunes, there has been a subtle shift in language which, I submit, is intended to lay the ground work to ban or limit pistols. Let me explain. The original battle was to ban “semiautomatic rifles with large capacity magazines that have high rates of fire and are rapidly reloaded….” There has been some success in vilifying the EBR as a “weapon of war” that “doesn’t belong in the hands of civilians.” Quite recently I have noticed that there are fewer references to “handguns” but instead to “semiautomatic pistols.” Why the change? Because semiautomatic handguns, just like rifles, have “large capacity magazines with high rates of fire and are rapidly reloaded…” Pistols are being conflated with EBRs, and thus the battle will be joined to limit magazine capacity and to push bans of the “unnecessary” firepower of pistols, guns “that only belong in the hands of the police and military….” The SAFE Act was one attack, California’s microstamping law (which has banned the introduction of any new pistols starting this past spring) will be joined by similar efforts in the northeast. This is the dawning of the age of the EBP.
It would be a nice to have a national video library to have videos like these available to show a jury if we ourselves are being judged for a DGU and have an over zealous prosecutor.
Not to say if we did the same thing we should not be charged but only that if a guy is sitting astride our chest banging our head on the ground (or concrete), that we should at least be as safe from prosecution as the cops in this LEO shooting.
This post should have been titled: “From the Greatest Depths of Uselessness.”
Eleven hundred dollars for a three and a half pound 9mm? Oh boy!
Those ghillie suits get better all the time.
There are times when I’m ashamed of the country I call my home. This is one of those times.
There are times I think that the US Constitution is the single greatest document ever written. This is also one of those times.
God, these people are such buzzkills.
I would carry concealed if I felt inclined to patronize these businesses.
If done properly, they would never know anyway. The joke is still on them, and it always will be. 😉
I carry at 4oclock and my wallet is in my front pocket. I got used to that after traveling a lot in third world countries. Its hard to pick my pocket when my hand has a good chance if being in that pocket with my wallet. So it is easy to show that I am pulling my wallet out instead of another object. EDC knife is in left front pocket.
The badge is a bad idea. For that 60-80 bucks I buy what I need to make the gun more concealable.
Less well-known than the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925 were the Monkey Scope Trials of 1994.
New York/NJ Port Authority’s been pulling this crap long before the SAFE act became law.George Revell got locked up for his flight making an emergency landing in Newark-where his handgun, legal to own in his original destination of PA,was illegal to posess.
What did the appellate court say?
“Turn your guns in to the airline or the PD”
Don’t fly to, around, or even within diverting distance of NJ/NY.If you do fly to the East Coast with a weapon, bring a beat up police trade in you wouldnt mind parting with.
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Color me a pessimist, but I don’t see this succeeding. Even pro-gun people in Cali often seem blind to what’s happening to them.
Another member of the Putin family showing off her guns in public.
Hey guys, gun in the far bottom left – it looks like it’s got a lock affixed to it (a safety feature that the Spectre offered), rather than a loop/wire lock (look hard). I’m pretty sure that’s an Alchemy Arms Spectre .45. The gold emblem looks right, too.
I owned one. They’re incredibly hard to find – strange, all-metal, stryker-fired Glock/1911 hybrid. You don’t normally find them outside of Washington state (that’s where I bought mine), as the company that created the Spectre (Alchemy Arms) was based in WA.
Weird.
Where do I get my weaponized PCP?
I stopped my print subscibtions several years ago…simply for the fact that you stated so eloquently. I happened to this website by accident. From the first article I read, I was hooked with TTAG. I realized that there are no other publications, print or electronic, that does a real good service to their subscribers other than TTAG. For that, I make sure that I visit the site daily…even hourly at work.
I know this article is a little old, but thanks DG for your informative post. I found it very interesting.
I second the small frame 16 gauge. It would be wonderful to see an American made small frame 16 o/u at an affordable price.