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| Above, the Ruger American Predator. Photo by Sturm, Ruger & Co. |
There are those who hunt for sport or even necessity. They will go out hunting with their rifle in all kinds of weather conditions.
But there are some rifles that have a tendency to fail when conditions get rough. That is the topic of an article in The Avid Outdoorsman with a list of rifles that do fail in rough conditions.
They begin it with:
Bad weather has a way of exposing rifles fast. A gun that looks great from a bench can start feeling a lot less impressive once it gets dragged through rain, dust, cold mornings, truck beds, muddy rests, wet packs, and rushed field positions.
Some rifles are not total junk. A few shoot fine when they are clean, dry, and handled carefully. The trouble starts when the conditions get rough and little problems show up all at once: sticky magazines, wandering zeroes, weak extraction, rough bolts, swelling stocks, gritty triggers, and actions that don’t like dirt nearly as much as the ads suggest.
To read more, go here.
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