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Posted: 12/25/2025 1:27:54 AM EDT
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https://www.ruger.com/products/redLabel/models.html Looks like they are being made my Connecticut Shotgun Manufacturing Company. I like their stuff and wanted a red label last time. 3k seems steep, but I guess if Connecticut is doing the work, maybe they are worth that? |
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Hotlinked: https://www.ruger.com/products/redLabel/models.html Yeah, seems steep, and it's 20 ga. only, but I'm glad they're available in some form once again. I like my old 12 ga. Red Label. |
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| Other than the 28ga, it’s a hard pass. Trying to make a field gun do target gun things ends up up with an unbalanced block. Just buy a browning 725 or a beretta 686. |
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| Are more gauges coming? I guess I'm glad they are branching out but I think most people will have a hard time looking past Beretta and Browning for them. |
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| I had a 12 gauge and 20 gauge both with 28" barrels back in the day. The 20 gauge was a decent field gun for pheasant hunting. I tried using the 12 gauge for trap and sporting clays and found I just could not shoot it well. It also had the annoying tendency of engaging the safety after the first round. I gladly parted with both of them and switched to the Browning 425 o/u. I would not consider paying $3k for a new one. |
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I had a stainless receiver one. Dam with that walnut it was heavy and swung slow on skeet and sporting clays. I think that one got traded on a Browning Special Sporting Clays model. I didn’t shoot that one much either, I went with the 30” barrel fad and didn’t care for it. The 425 has suited me better. |
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| I had one of the original RL's (30" comp model) and I don't miss it at all. It wasn't junk but it wasn't all that great either. It was loose as a goose after just a few rounds of skeet. Stick with Browning or Beretta for a reasonably priced quality O/U IMO |
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Originally Posted By airgunner: I had one of the original RL's (30" comp model) and I don't miss it at all. It wasn't junk but it wasn't all that great either. It was loose as a goose after just a few rounds of skeet. Stick with Browning or Beretta for a reasonably priced quality O/U IMO They did that easy action open design change thing. My Red Label was never fully broken in enough to drop the barrels. I still was using a fair amount of force to open mine when I sold it. Probably put a couple thousand through it shooting clay birds. Edit…..and I bought it used. 
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As a younger man I thought I wanted a Ruger Red Label really bad and was disappointed to learn that Ruger never got them quite right so I went with Beretta and have been happy with all of those I've had. I hope this Ruger III version has the bugs worked out of it and they do well with it. |
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Originally Posted By GunCat: As a younger man I thought I wanted a Ruger Red Label really bad and was disappointed to learn that Ruger never got them quite right so I went with Beretta and have been happy with all of those I've had. I hope this Ruger III version has the bugs worked out of it and they do well with it. I think most of us who grew up as Ruger fans felt the same way. When I was broke and lucky to have a couple of 870’s, 12 & 20, I lusted for one. Especially a 28 which with the price of ammo was definitely out of the question for me. I also wanted a Browning GTI in the worst way. But $800 dollars for a gun was out of the question. My guess is this is going to be a rebranded CSM. The have a spotty reputation. I have no experience with them. But people who I have met either love em or hate them. Nothing in between. Of all the stuff Ruger could have brought back I think this is an answer looking for a question. But who am I ?? Just a guy. Still fighting off the 77/44 they brought back. Definitely don’t need one of those. And the limited run of 30 cal Blackhawks that would force me to buy a 30 carbine. But if they brought back the 44 auto carbine I would have no choice. And if it had a full length stock I would just loose my mind. |
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Originally Posted By mike103: No real love for Ruger shotguns here or over on shotgunworld.com . . . . You could have linked to the active thread about the new Rugers: https://www.shotgunworld.com/threads/ruger-over-under-coming-back.587207/#replies |
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I have a 12 gauge with a 26 inch barrell and a english stocked 20 gauge. I bought the 12 gauge years ago, new. If I remeber it was about $900. I had the stock cut to fit me, an ivory bead put on and a mid bead added. If I had to shoot for money, that would be the gun. The english stocked 20 gauge came from a buddy just in the last year. It was his wifes, and she passed. He wanted it gone. He wouldn't take any more than he paid, which was $700. I still feel guilty but late gave hime a smoking deal on a different gun trade. I will likely buy one of the new ones, I am certain the quiality willl be A1 |
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Originally Posted By Bladeswitcher: You could have linked to the active thread about the new Rugers: https://www.shotgunworld.com/threads/ruger-over-under-coming-back.587207/#replies And take away your job?? Never. Union shop and all. Lol |
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Originally Posted By GunCat: As a younger man I thought I wanted a Ruger Red Label really bad and was disappointed to learn that Ruger never got them quite right so I went with Beretta and have been happy with all of those I've had. I hope this Ruger III version has the bugs worked out of it and they do well with it. I owned a Red Label, late 90's. Terrible gun. After a box of ammo the shells would stick in the chamber, and you had to use a rod to push them out, blackpoweder style. I had a gunsmith look at it - he said the chambers were out of round, and when it heated up they were too out of size to extract using the gun's extractor. He polished the chambers up, same issue, back, same issue. Last time I shot it, I was fortunate there wasn't a lake at the range as I would actually have thrown it in it. Ended up selling it at a show for at a loss, but better than nothing. I probably should have contacted Ruger about it, but I'd bought it used, and had a million other things going on right then. |
| Hopefully they don't shoot themselves loose after a couple cases. Years ago I knew a father and son that both had one and after two years the guns were falling apart and they were hoping to get another year out of them. Knew another guy that had the problem with the safety always coming on after the first shot. |
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Originally Posted By gunner76: Hopefully they don't shoot themselves loose after a couple cases. Years ago I knew a father and son that both had one and after two years the guns were falling apart and they were hoping to get another year out of them. Knew another guy that had the problem with the safety always coming on after the first shot. Despite the hoopla when they first came out, they ended up being pretty crappy. I know a few guys who bought them back in the day, and all had problems with them. |
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I own one in 12ga, Shot Sporting Clays for a couple years with it. I never had any problems with it other than it was heavy. I haven’t shot it in years. Last year, I purchased a Beretta Silver Pigeon, Field Grade in 28ga as a retirement present to myself. Swings like a feather. I really like it, other than the LOP is too long for me. Gonna cut it down and refit the recoil pad when I get around to it. |
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| Handled a New 20ga Red Label today. This sample had plain but nice looking wood and the bluing was nicely done also. Action wasn't sloppy like the old ones were out of the box but nowhere near as tight as a Browning/Beretta. One thing I noticed was the LOP was really long for an American Made gun, spec sheet says it's 14.5". For the $3000 price tag it had I would buy a Browning or Beretta. |
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Originally Posted By gunner76: Handled a New 20ga Red Label today. This sample had plain but nice looking wood and the bluing was nicely done also. Action wasn't sloppy like the old ones were out of the box but nowhere near as tight as a Browning/Beretta. One thing I noticed was the LOP was really long for an American Made gun, spec sheet says it's 14.5". For the $3000 price tag it had I would buy a Browning or Beretta. Better the LOP to be too long out of the box, no way for a manufacturer to make a true “one size fits all” stock so now its just a band saw and grind-to-fit pad away from being what the individual needs. Did the newest version share any resemblance to the previous Red Label guns, or was it a complete redesign? |
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Originally Posted By GunCat: Better the LOP to be too long out of the box, no way for a manufacturer to make a true “one size fits all” stock so now its just a band saw and grind-to-fit pad away from being what the individual needs. Did the newest version share any resemblance to the previous Red Label guns, or was it a complete redesign? If memory serves me it's pretty close. The takedown lever for the forend is a button sticking out the front instead of the flush fitting lever that was set into the bottom like on the old ones. Also the new one has a blued receiver instead of the stainless on the original. |
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