Ruger American Rimfire. As good as a Precision Rimfire for the average shooter? Could be!

Just picked up this Ruger American Rimfire Model 8334 with the 18” barrel.
I have a 3-9x Simmons 8 point scope on it. Took a little to get it sighted in, but I was getting groups as small as about .60”-.75”
Honestly, I was getting groups about the same as what I get with my 10/22 Target or my Ruger Precision Rimfire. It may be that I found the limit of my ammo, as the CCI standard velocity consistently get me sub .75” groups.
Needless to say, I love these American Series rifles. Now I have the Ruger American Ranch in 7.62x39, the American Predator in .223, and this American Rimfire in .22LR.
I’m very impressed with this rifle.

[@ryanwilson5936]

I’ve watched this video a handful of times over the last 4 months. I’ve had this rifle for about 5 months. Put a Vortex Crossfire II 2x7 Rimfire scope and a cheaper Caldwell bipod on it. I finally got to shoot it for the first time yesterday. Sighted it in for 50 yards using CCI SV and if I do my job correctly i can fill a 1” square all day long. Shot 100 rounds. Couldn’t be happier with my purchase. Next time I want to see what it does at 100 yards. The shooting club I just joined does 100 yard rimfire egg shoots every month that sound really fun. Thanks for the video!

[@crankygunreviews]

No problem! Thanks for watching! I have been very pleasantly surprised with the accuracy of this little rifle!

[@FishKepr]

Yes, you can be happier with your 8334. Get a suppressor if you don’t already have one. 😉

[@roberthikade9759]

Its top notch, I got it sited in with the AR cci 40 grain 1200 fps and its a tack driver I tried lots of other ammo and it liked this one the best. I did my own mods on the trigger and got it to a 2# pull. When on my annual squirrel hunting contest in middle of February I took my first squirrel on the first shot at 80 yards to the head. I was shooting (5) shot Nickle size groups at 50 yards at the range. I sports a Vortex Crossfire scope also. Thanks for reminding me to send the update.

[@tomaskey6844]

Recently bought a 10/22 and now I have a Ruger American 30-06 that I have not fired yet and I’m shopping for a Ruger American Rimfire. This is worse than my guitar addiction! Did I mention I bought a Mossberg 500 after the 10/22? Most of slipped my mind. I bought some solid entry level guns and will now add on some higher quality guns as I learn more. This is a lot of fun and I like the aspect of exercising my rights as well as having tools that can feed, protect, and entertain me. Thanks for the videos.

[@crankygunreviews]

Solid choices, nothing wrong with those! Thanks for watching and commenting!

[@davepoidvin2364]

I also like the Ruger Amer Rf, but prefer the .22 WMR. As for your zhooting, you change shooting position even within a string, consistency is everything. All the best. Dave & The Girls

[@crankygunreviews]

I know, I need to not take my head off the gun everything. I need a lot of practice- too much time elapses between range trips. I have the .22wmr as well, and both have proven very accurate to me.

[@TheHounddog2343]

There is a significant bullet drop for all 22 LR at 100 yards even on a calm day with no wind. Haven’t shot for a long time. Just bought this rifle but different model number that doesn’t come with the picatinny rail. Not an issue. Have plenty of magazines from my Ruger 10/22 rifle.

[@bighx6099]

Mcarbo makes a trigger spring that will bring your trigger to about 2-2.5. it tightened up my groups. The spring is a 5 minute change and helps a lot. I put a vortex crossfire on mine. Don't mind the scope haters. I got mine shooting dimes at 75 yards with cci velocitors

[@crankygunreviews]

I haven’t don’t any upgrades really. I’m fine with the trigger- lots of people have been pointing out issues with my technique that are not just keyboard commandos spouting junk

[@bighx6099]

@@crankygunreviews I just needed a minute of squirrel head gun. So I built one on this platform. Works great.

[@crankygunreviews]

@@bighx6099 I could hit a squirrel head easily with mine. I’ve gotten less than 1/2 groups at 50 yards several times with this gun, just over an inch at 100

[@bighx6099]

@@crankygunreviews I know. These are tack drivers.

[@kensetches2276]

You can do this yourself by snipping a few coils (play with it) off the stock trigger pull adjustment spring. No need to spend money.

[@vspiotti]

Thanks for the review. Live up here in the White Mountains. I am going to pick one up based on your review. Thanks..... Vinnie

[@crankygunreviews]

Highly recommend it! You won’t be sorry! Get a decent scope, at least a Simmons Protarget 3-9x and you’ll be shooting great groups!

[@roberthikade9759]

Just bought one I'll let you now what I think, great video!

[@kevinaweseom2866]

What do you think

[@ToddTheGunGuy]

Sweet gun brother. 22 is the way of the future due to price of ammo. Is nice to come back too it🤙🇺🇸

[@crankygunreviews]

I never moved away from it. I think I like shooting .22 as much as any other caliber.

[@ToddTheGunGuy]

@@crankygunreviews Just bought a resetting target for .22 and we added a few steel plates. All ww now is temps to get above zero🥶

[@crankygunreviews]

@@ToddTheGunGuy I was lucky it was a balmy 36 today... snow tomorrow.

[@ToddTheGunGuy]

@@crankygunreviews That is shorts weather😆

[@crankygunreviews]

@@ToddTheGunGuy it’s close :)

[@darrelnasogaluak7010]

The soft lead bullets may be deformed during the feeding problems you are having. It will likely affect accuracy

[@82dirtdart]

I’ve read a bunch of complaints online of people having issues with the feeding on these. I sent mine back like I said in another post. I’m extremely disappointed because I feel like the design could have been better with how it loads. Ruger needs to improve on this faulty design.

[@crankygunreviews]

I’m not gonna send mine back, I’ll figure it out.

[@crankygunreviews]

My issue was one bad mag, I sold it with a 10/22 and I haven’t had any jamming issues since.

[@pawcrawlowens8730]

I have a 22 mag and lr in it they both are very accurate

[@crankygunreviews]

I have both as well, and I’m very happy with them both.

[@joostprins3381]

Got the Ruger American Rimfire LRT, love it.

[@crankygunreviews]

great rifle!

[@joostprins3381]

@@crankygunreviews yeah, really long range is difficult in the Netherlands, we got 3 sides where you can shoot like 300 m. Our club is getting this year a 200 m range, but that’s about it. So buying a larger caliber rifle doesn’t really make sense, 200 m is perfectly doable with the .22 LR.

[@crankygunreviews]

@@joostprins3381 I have access to a 400 yard range, but it’s not close to me- I usually shoot 100 yards.

[@joostprins3381]

@@crankygunreviews Me too, 100 m that is (110 yards), I like that distance, still nice groups, but I’m curious to the 200 m range later this year ( we are going to extend the 100 m range to 200 m)

[@crankygunreviews]

@@joostprins3381 I’ve shot 200 yards with 22 before, but the bullet drop is insane.

[@chriscurtis7723]

if you want a budget scope get a Bushnell and dump the Simmons in the trash

[@crankygunreviews]

Simmons work fine dude

[@Rumpleskin]

I own one.then I bought the wife one. Both set up the same (scope bipod etc).great guns.we have contests,makes 22 more fun.

[@crankygunreviews]

I’m very happy with it! Surprised how accurate it is actually :) pleasantly surprised.

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[@frankmarkus8098]

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[@Brandenuzis]

Really good rifles, you can put ar mags in them and everything I got the ranch in 300 black out and I got a 15 round mag on it and it’s a fun shooter

[@crankygunreviews]

I wish I waited longer and got the ranch in 5.56, but this one is great and the AR mags acceptance was the main reason I wanted it

[@47vulcanride]

After watching further, I think it's just the nature of the video/sound recording that's responsible for the "quietness" of the shots. Not that it's suppressed. All righty then.

[@crankygunreviews]

It doesn’t have a muzzle brake either- they make a louder report when firing

[@joemorganeatmyshortschannel]

very cool cranky i had epic range day with taurus 856 and my dpms ar15 a2 carbine sorry to hear you sold the raven it was cool but that ruger nice too

[@crankygunreviews]

The Ruger is way nicer. I don’t regret selling the Raven, I shouldn’t have bought it in the first place. The range was pretty good today. No one there cause there’s a lot of snow on the range, so at least I got good shooting and lots of excercise lol

[@joemorganeatmyshortschannel]

@@crankygunreviews very cool i had people circling for my brass only to figure out it was steel cased i think in my area ammo is getting better but is still sparatic

[@crankygunreviews]

@@joemorganeatmyshortschannel here it’s still scarce... the shop I got this from had more ammo than I’ve seen in a while. Not cheap, but they had .38 special, 5.56, .223, 9mm, 6mm creedmore, and many others... guy bought $4200 of .38 special while I was there... at $60 for 50 rounds. Guy was paranoid the government was gonna come look for him if he bought it lol... the shortage and panic buying is still very real.

[@joemorganeatmyshortschannel]

@@crankygunreviews good god man ive seen it too id rather just not shoot at the price i was given 29 rounds of it and used a round from the defensive to test it so i have 24 rounds of xtp 110 gr just in case but ill just wait i dont have that kind of money

[@82dirtdart]

Same issue with feeding. Sent it back to ruger hopefully it will run reliably after.

[@crankygunreviews]

It only does this with one magazine.

[@williespoonemore3392]

Had my wmr compact for 8 months , been out 4 or 5 times at range . Never had feed problems huh ?

[@crankygunreviews]

@williespoonemore3392 no I don’t have feeding issues

[@keoweegunguy8928]

Get yourself a sightmark universal bore sight. Makes switching out scopes a lot easier

[@crankygunreviews]

I don’t switch my scopes. I set one up, and leave it

[@FishKepr]

I kept watching the rest creep forward, waiting for it to fall off the table. My compact RAR always seems to get at least one flyer in every 10-shot group. However I have a DA mask in jail so I may order an 8334 to go with it.

[@crankygunreviews]

Yeah my rest is less than ideal but works :)

[@shockwave6416]

I love the glim glam profile pic! 👌

[@FishKepr]

@@shockwave6416 Thank you. I have an 8334 now BTW.

[@shockwave6416]

@@FishKepr do you like it. I'm thinking of getting one. Do you still like mlp?

[@FishKepr]

@@shockwave6416 It’s too early to tell as I’ve only had it a few weeks so accuracy has not settled in yet. It averages 1.25” groups at 50y with inexpensive ammo, but plenty of variables to tinker with so I’m sure it will get better. We won’t know how it behaves with a suppressor until the stamp arrives. Low mounting a Leupold made the high comb a bit uncomfortable so I will probably order a low module as the 8334 does not include it. I went though the same with my Compact model so I should have expected that. Yes, we are waiting for G5 to restart and still go to conventions. A few weeks ago we briefly met with Vincent Tong, Kelly Sheridan and Nicole Oliver (again). They are really fun people to be around. Some of the new G5 VAs were there too, but we have not met them yet.

[@barryclayton4573]

So many things you did wrong. Clean the gun 1st before you ever shoot for the 1st time. Break in the barrel. And torque your scope rings to proper inch pounds. Just a few heads up

[@crankygunreviews]

I’ve done all those things with other rifles, I never noticed a difference in accuracy in my hands.

[@corbintravis7512]

You need to torque those scope rings. Watching you mount that scope was painful.

[@crankygunreviews]

They’re torqued, about half a wrist turn past not loose at all. It’s a 22 they’ll be fine

[@47vulcanride]

OK maybe I'm just ignorant or un-informed but how is this rifle so quiet? I don't see a suppressor or silencer on the barrel. Please explain. Thanks

[@crankygunreviews]

It’s only a .22 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@kensetches2276]

Nobody who uses $35 scopes is to be taken seriously concerning firearms. LOL

[@crankygunreviews]

I will have you know, it's an $80 scope, and if someone can shoot a gun well with cheap optics, your irrelevance is irrelevant. :)

[@shannonfritsch6647]

I use a cvlife 6-24×50 @ get cloverleaf at 50yrds, $50.00 scope.

[@kensetches2276]

@@crankygunreviews Nobody who uses $80 scopes is to be taken seriously either. :):)

[@crankygunreviews]

Ok. @@kensetches2276

[@pawcrawlowens8730]

It's the mag

[@crankygunreviews]

Yeah most likely

[@rudolphferdinand3634]

One bad habit that a lot of bolt shooters do is, raise head from the rifle stock, degrades the accuracy. I am trying to break myself of the habit. Pursue of Accuracy KZbin video.

[@crankygunreviews]

Yeah I notice that as well, I have a lot to learn.

[@rudolphferdinand3634]

Learn something new each day if possible.

[@anthonytech]

What do I need exactly to mount this scope to my Ruger American 22

[@crankygunreviews]

A set of scope rings. I buy cheap “snipers brand rings off eBay for another it $13 for a pair.

[@upland365]

What is the magazine that you use besides the issued box magazine? Thanks

[@crankygunreviews]

I have used the Ruger 15 rd mags, two factory 10 round mags coupled together with a mag connector, and I think I have used the tandemkross doublekross which is a housing that takes two internals from standard 10rd Ruger rotary mags. The black ones that stick out the bottom are just two factory rotary mags coupled together. www.ebay.com/itm/373307369247?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=XAd_i0H8TDC&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=bGP-reUBS-y&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

[@upland365]

@@crankygunreviews perfect! I’ll be picking up the gear to couple mine together. Thanks for the suggestion, keep up the good reviews.

[@crankygunreviews]

@@upland365 thanks for watching!

[@jonnymac8113]

Ive been thinking of getting Ruger American in 22LR. But im not liking the problem your having with the mags.

[@crankygunreviews]

It was only one magazine. Not all of them. I have some very old 10/22 mags, and some new ones. I’ve also taken many of these apart so some of them the springs may not be wound up enough. I would not hesitate to buy this gun with these mags. The one mag that was having an issue was also on a mag coupler, which makes it hang down lower, I think that’s why I was having the issue

[@jonnymac8113]

@@crankygunreviews Funny I was just thinking that. I have one really finicky Mag for my 10-22. Thanks for the response!

[@crankygunreviews]

@@jonnymac8113 glad to help

[@82dirtdart]

I would pass and get the CZ 457.

[@crankygunreviews]

@@82dirtdart this is a lot cheaper than the CZ

[@vonmuller6577]

Sounds and looks windy?

[@crankygunreviews]

Always seems to have wind kick up when I get to the range lol

[@duckwacker8720]

Definitely put a Leupold on your rifles.

[@crankygunreviews]

You want to contribute to the gun fund? Cause if not, I’m sticking with cheap scopes. I’ve had good luck with them so far, and they’re cheap.

[@FishKepr]

I had a Simmons on my RAR for a month before replacing it with a Leupold VX-Freedom. The light transmission, clarity, and color of the Leupold leaves the Simmons in the dust.

[@Mr-117]

How do you adjust comb?

[@crankygunreviews]

It doesn’t adjust on the American

[@Mr-117]

@crankygunreviews thats what I thought, shoot. Also you find any replacement chassis/stock for this rifle?

[@crankygunreviews]

@@Mr-117 I haven’t been looking for a replacement chassis

[@Mr-117]

@@crankygunreviews damn ok, it's just that some of the magpul and mdt chassis look good

[@crankygunreviews]

@@Mr-117 they may have some for it. I kinda like this stock- light and looks cool. Some think they’re cheesy, but it’s not an expensive gun. I’m sure someone makes a stock for it, it I’m ok with the factory one for now

[@zerpblerd5966]

you use ear prot. for .22 normally or just because youtube fascism ?

[@zerpblerd5966]

omg I paused it and posted this and then unpaused and you took your glasses off hahaha

[@crankygunreviews]

I always wear ear pro. Because I want to have hearing when I’m 70. I took my glasses off cause they fog up when it’s cold out, and you’re not likely to get stuff in your eyes shallow shooting a bolt action.

[@zerpblerd5966]

@@crankygunreviews aye, totally understand about the eyes, and I wasn't trying to criticize at all either way, was just curious your regular habit vs. what you might be showing on YT good on you for wearing for .22 !

[@crankygunreviews]

@@zerpblerd5966 what you see on YT is unfiltered. :)

[@zerpblerd5966]

@@crankygunreviews I grew up in the BOONIES and saw guys shooting everything without anything ( : 12gauges into the sky at night /OMFG RUNNNNNNN FOR COVER

[@gunfreak9mm]

As soon as I heard "Simmons" I stopped and moved on.

[@crankygunreviews]

Well thanks for judging me based on my scope choice. Budget scopes allow me to buy more guns.

[@russr5128]

You sound like a bunghole

[@deniseandmarkfirestine7443]

Really

[@crankygunreviews]

Really