ozarkhillbilly
Member
Quick question: My buddy just purchased an Ruger American in 5.56 from Bass Pro today. Took it home to shoot it and it would not chamber either 223 or 5.56 the case would go in 80% and get stuck and when he removed the round you could see where the brass had deep scrapes from the chamber. Since he had just purchased it from Brass Pro hours before he ran it back to the store to see what they could do. A guy at the counter told him they could not exchange it but that they had a buy back program where they would buy it back at full purchase price and let him buy another Ruger American, but the manager would have to do that. Well after a couple of hours and talking to 5 different people Bass Pro said they were not going to do that but he could leave it with them and let their gunsmith look at it sometime in the next week to see what he could do with it and if nothing then they would send it back to Ruger but that might take months.
My advice was I would not leave it with Bass Pro as I would not want their gunsmith working on a new gun, I would just take it and call Ruger myself. I have no doubt that Ruger will not fix it, probably replacing the barrel.
What would you do?
My advice was I would not leave it with Bass Pro as I would not want their gunsmith working on a new gun, I would just take it and call Ruger myself. I have no doubt that Ruger will not fix it, probably replacing the barrel.
What would you do?