303lithgow

We don't seem to have much interest in the Charger anymore. Was it just a flash in the pan?

North country gal

If it is, I'm glad I got mine in time. Seriously, it is more of a specialty pistol and specialty pistols are not hot selling commodities in this day and age of CCW and self-defense guns. The Charger has found a home with me, though, shooting off the bench, right alongside my Contenders. It's loads of fun to shoot.

303lithgow

Good to hear you like and still shoot yours. I have one and want to make a Mare's Leg out of it.

Golfbuddy45

I lost total interest in ever getting a Charger when I went to the range and a man had a laser on one - Charger on the the bi-pod sitting on the shooting stand as he stood behind it at waist high watching the laser on the target and then proceeded to fire 25 rounds into the spot where he was holding the laser. He then turned to those behind him and said - "THAT IS SOO MUCH FUN".

I think it would be more fun to have a radio control robot with a laser guided rifle filling a target full of holes . . . . . .

So I have no use for one now . . . .

GB45

BlkHawk73

I think just a lack of marketing coupled with that market area being what it is... Right idea at the wrong time.

TMD

I don't think the Charger ever had much of a big following. I've had mine for about 4 years now and its still one of my favorite guns to shoot.

Hairtrigger

I wanted one at first. Then I got to thinking it is another gun I would shoot once and then to the safe not to shoot it again.
I already have plenty of those!

303lithgow

I've had mine a little more than six months and in its stock configuration its fun but nothing special. I want to make a Mare's Leg out of mine.

fungun

Never wanted one and doubt that will change, just not for me. Different folks different strokes

BenjiEDF

I shoot at a bullseye range and one of our rangemasters got one with the bipod and a cheap red dot, he and I were shooting 2 inch groups at 25 yards EASILY. It's a sweet little gun, and I say don't knock it till you try one lol.

303lithgow

You have to like sitting in a chair and shootin' to like one. I think one made into a Mare's Let would completely change the pistols useage.

BuckJM53

I seriously thought about buying one when they came out in 2008. After renting one at my range and putting about 200 rounds through it, I just wasn't persuaded that it was right for me. In looking at the numbers, while Ruger manufactured/shipped about 38,000 units (total) during the first 3 production years, it has dropped off to only 3,000 total units during the last two years. If that trend continues, I would suspect that the Charger is not long for this world.

terry_p

I thought a Mares leg was a lever gun. Steve McQueen wouldn't like that.

BlkHawk73

re: the laser thing... never cared for laser sighting myself, especially for range shooting. Kinda takes a lot of the fun out of it to me. Kinda a lazy-man way of shooting I guess. Maybe for close range stuff or in some defensive scenarios I can see but otherwise... I certainly wouldn't let some other person's use of one change my desire for any particular firearm though.

Have had my Charger for a couple years now and have never put a round though it. Brother ordered it just for something different and it was on sale from his distributor. Bought it at his cost and just haven't gotten around to doing anything with it yet. Eventually a new barrel will be had, the trigger will get redone and optics atop it. No hurry.

I do see the Charger going away also. The resources used for those slow sellers can be much better put to use on something else.

303lithgow

Don't you mean Josh Randall? The origional M'sL was a cutdown Winchester 92 so you are right. I think putting a cutdown stock on a Charger with a slightly longer 12 inch barrel and making it so the overall size is 24 inches would make it a nice truck/ranch gun.