Ruger Wrangler(s) Experience

[JumboJVT]

It's good to have a working usable beater. Especially so in a 22lr. It's great for teaching new shooters. A few scuffs or dings, who cares. Good working gun. Good camping gun. Multiple uses for an accurate 22 single action with good customer support and great affordable wood grips/leather holsters on ruger.com

I feel for the folks with issues, but you'll see that on any model regardless of initial cost. If you buy a 200 dollar wrangler, the odds are in your favor that you'll get a good one. I would prefer dealing with ruger over taurus (heritage) if an issue did arise. Worth an extra couple bucks to me.

I guess I can sorta get that. But aren't your better guns to be used? My wife tells me I just don't understand the collector mentality. Once again she is correct.

 

[defjon]

They are, absolutely. The 63 no dash is a j frame trainer for me. Saves ammo and recoil , same trigger etc.

As my daughter grows older she can use the 63 more. The wrangler is great for that knock about gun. It would be okay to get dings and scratches and use my 63, but a couple of 22s and one that is okay to not baby as much is a welcome addition to stable! The 63 isn't a collector per say, and I've carried it woods bumming.

I'm the "gun guy" in our family and I've trained at this point maybe a half dozen or more nieces and nephews in addition to my immediate family and even extended family and grandparents, cousins, etc.

For non gun folks a single action 22 revolver is really easy to pick up and not intimidating at all. It slows you done and that helps mistakes to not happen.

Wear and tear camping, or being set on table at the range with a raised screw head etc, well, I'd rather the wrangler take that on. Which it does with aplomb.

Once they are safe and comfortable with the wrangler, they can graduate to the 63 which is nice because it's double action mechanics. These skills will transfer to centerfire revolvers as well.

So, I've got leather for the wrangler and the smith. I'll pick up another sr22 or a tx22 or something so that folks can learn the semi auto.

They're all users, but should something fall onto the gravel or get soda spilled on it or who knows ...I'd cry less on the wrangler. Plus is that I love it, it shoots one hole, it handles any 22 load, it rides nice in a slim Jim leather holster and pretties up with some rosewood ruger grips. I have the silver model.

I've had a few single six convertibles but to me too heavy and expensive for the role of a single action 22- teaching new shooter, plinking, fundamentals, pest control, etc.

 

[Biblethumpncop]

I have a Colt Diamondback that I've owned since I was about 11 that I saved lawn mowing money and money from birthdays and Christmas. I enjoy shooting it and so does my adult daughter. She said she wants it someday. I have carried it hunting and have shot it tens of thousands of times.

I have a Browning Buckmark that I enjoy shooting and it almost gets boring because it is so easy to shoot and is accurate.

I just got an old model Single Six. I haven't shot it yet but had a 6.5" barrel installed on it.

All three of these 22's are heavier and stable.

I also have a 3.75" Wrangler that I have customized and it weighs 24oz now. It is handy and a great plinker. I like how it is handy and it was a fun, cheap project. I find this gun fits a niche that my more expensive guns don't. I actually like this Wrangler better than the old model Single Six at this point. Maybe my mind will change after shooting it for a while, but for now, I really like all my 22's, especially the Wrangler.

 

[Sacramento Johnson]

Had been looking for a short barrel SS convertible in stainless for a little while. Came upon one at a LGS that was made in 2002 (is a Lipsey distributed edition); didn't look to be shot outside of the factory, for $499. Yes, I could have bought 2 Wranglers for that price, but decided I wanted quality and durability over quantity.
I was watching a recent new episode of "Swamp People" and the new female deck hand carried a Ruger Wrangler on her belt. For a firearm that was going to get wet, beat up and possibly lost overboard, I think that was a very good choice she made.
I guess it just comes down to how much does one want to spend, how willing is one to accept a lesser quality piece and what plans does one have for such a piece.

 

[defjon]

Concur, excellent for blasting crocs where the bone plates meet and getting covered in swamp gunk.

 

[Tenncvol]

More on my tale of two Wranglers. On the first one, the nice cutomer service person advised that I could elect to receive a new replacement or they would return mine if I desired. She then gave me a warning that the returned gun was potentially dangerous and should not be shot at all. I suspect she was reading this advice or knew it by heart. Then the next one did the same thing.

The shame was the Wrangler would produce resonably good groups and then would be 6 inches or more off at five yards. It was fun when it ran ok.

 

[SwampWolf]

I traded into a wrangler recently and it shoots very low . Like 6 inches low at 12 yards.

At least it's shooting low instead of high. When a fixed sight pistol is shooting low with all types of ammunition, it's an easy fix by taking your time and judicially removing metal from the top of the front sight. A much easier solution than having to add material to the front sight to make a fixed sighted gun which is shooting high to shoot lower (which is the dilemma I am facing with my fix-sighted Colt Cobra revolver that shoots about a foot high @ 25 yards and that has not responded sufficiently in terms of changing the poa vs the poi when shooting bullets having different weights).

 

[silicosys4]

I purchased two Wranglers, a FDE and a black one. Shot the FDE one, wasn't impressed, put it away, didn't bother to shoot the FDE one. Forgot about them. Was recently reminded, and decided to actually evaluate them both for groups. The FDE shot poorly, averaging 2-4"" groups 5" low. Looked closer.

Cerakote in the bore.

Got a prepaid shipping label and return order from Ruger.
Then I remembered I have a second one that I haven't shot.
Shot even worse. Couldn't keep 12 shots on a paper plate at 10 yards rested and seated. Keyholing all over the plate.

Both are going back to Ruger.