Ruger Guide Gun Named Field & Stream ‘Best of the Best’
The Ruger® Guide Gun has been awarded a 2013 “Best of the Best” Award from Field & Stream magazine. The current Ruger Guide Gun combines features of several of Ruger’s most popular rifles in a versatile, general-purpose hunting rifle.
The Guide Gun features a stainless action and barrel, removable muzzle brake, safari-style iron sights, adjustable length-of-pull (with three 1/2″ spacers), barrel band sling swivel, and a Green Mountain laminated wood stock. The new Ruger Guide Gun is available in .30-06 Spr, .300 Win Mag, .338 Win Mag, .300 RCM, .338 RCM, and .375 Ruger. A left-handed configuration is available in .375 Ruger.
Removable Muzzle Brake/Weight
The Ruger Guide Gun includes a removable, radial-port muzzle brake that significantly reduces felt recoil. If you don’t need the brake, it may be replaced by a dynamically-matched muzzle weight, provided as part of the system. Ruger claims that: “switching between the brake and the weight will not change the bullet’s point of impact. The included thread protector may be used if neither the brake nor the weight is desired.”
Video Explains Ruger Guide Gun Features
The Ruger Guide Gun has Mauser-type controlled feeding (with claw extractor), three-position safety, and Ruger scope rings that install on the integral mounts. All Ruger Guide Guns feature windage adjustable shallow “V” notch rear sights and large white bead front sights for instant sight alignment.
Guide Gun May Be Rugged and Versatile, but Accuracy is Disappointing
The Guide Gun tested by Field & Stream had a heavy trigger and mediocre accuracy, but the Magazine’s editors still praised its hunting capabilities: “On our .375 Ruger test rifle, the trigger broke at 4 pounds, 8 ounces with a very slight creep. The mechanism is an open design that will not collect water or debris. Our groups averaged 1.40 inch at 100 yards, fine for a rifle of this type. The removable muzzle brake does a good job of suppressing recoil, but if you don’t care for the noise it can be removed and replaced with an unported dummy brake of identical weight that allows you to keep your zero.”Editor’s Comment: Field & Stream may be satisfied with a one-and-a-half MOA rifle for hunting purposes, but frankly, we expect better accuracy from a gun with an $1199.00 MSRP. Is this really “Best of the Best”? At that price, we don’t think so. The Guide Gun does have some interesting features, but you’ll pay a premium for that trick muzzle brake and the safari sights.
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Ruger was never known for its accuracy, and the price tag…well
20″ barrel, nice.
Barrel band, nice.
That’s where it stops….
Everything else is fluff and it’s to heavy for portability.
my Ruger shoots 1/4in groups out of the box
with 338rcm you want a little weight to slow the recoil
Agreed Ruger knows very little about quality or accurate firearms. Now Field and Stream on the other hand knows absolutely nothing about guns at all, they have not had a sinlge real indepentant review that ive seen in years, they normall just spout advertised points over and over. Guns like this are not what we should be producing. We need more quieter user friendly guns not inefficient guns that simple destroy a new shooters hearing.
This goes to show that Field and Stream can and will be bought. I guess that Ruger was the highest bidder. There is so much other innovation going on, and some insanely accurate rifles being made, and they choose this??
What are you expecting of the rifle? I know that this web page is dedicated to accuracy but this rifle is not for accuracy. It is for dangerous game. It must be perfectly reliable and deliver a heavy bullet at short range, quickly. The caliber used in the tests was the heaviest, 375 Ruger that approximates the 375 H&H. Also it was factory ammo used in the tests and in this caliber there is not a lot to choose from. With a hand load and some tweaking of the components of the round I am sure that it would do under an inch. It does what it was designed to do. Protect the owners hide from fang and claw.
Another fine belly flop by Ruger. Reading field and stream for gun advice is like taking love advice from a hooker.
For those that expect more accuracy out of a 375, I wonder how much dangerous game is shot at over 200 yards. Must be real dangerous if your not willing to get closer to it. Reliability and knockdown are the key with your life on the line not benchrest accuracy.
“Reading field and stream for gun advice is like taking love advice from a hooker.”
As with gunsmiths shooters always seem to decline advice from professionals.
Im a guide in Alaska and carry the guide gun in .375. with barnes 300gr tsx bullets and H4350 I have routinely shot groups under half inch at 100 yard. It is a very balanced rifle with very little kick for the caliber and for those of you who like to talk about a rifle before you try it, try it first and you wont sound like boys on the school yard kicking dirt.
I have a 375 ruger and the gun shoots great.
Ruger makes a quality gun at a great price.
Hawkeye African
my 338 win mag is a tack driver with handloaded 185 ttsx barnes
Mine 300 WM GG is just very picky when it comes to ammo. It was a 1 to 1.75 gun with almost all ammo except the Federal 180 Non Typical Whitetail and Berger 230 Grain Hybrid OTM (I only fired a handful of these because I’m afraid they’re over pressuring my chamber with very tight bolt extraction). But with those two rounds I could get 3 touching out of 5 and the flyers within .5 MOA. Anyone have a suggestion on a replacement since they don’t make the NT anymore?