Ruger Wrangler Review & Accuracy

When Ruger introduced the Ruger Wrangler, it provided a high quality and affordable single action handgun to the market. Just how good is the Ruger Wrangler and how accurate does it shoot? That is what we cover in detail in this video...

[@johndernberger1961]

Purchased one of these a month ago and have truly enjoyed taking it to the range. Very accurate and I love the weight and feel !

[@DisHammerhand]

I've had one for a couple years. Accuracy improved with use for me.

[@kbjerke]

Ordered one - it's on the way!! Hope to get it to the range soon!! Thanks for the video!

[@Masta-Blasta]

Although the owner's manual says dry firing won't damage the cylinder, it really does. Don't know why Ruger says that, but don't dry fire the rimfires.

[@garysh3580]

Have you damaged your gun ?

[@Masta-Blasta]

@@garysh3580 If you dry fire the wrangler you will notice firing pen indentations in the cylinder. Doesn't look good on cylinder and can't be good for the firing pen on a non robust budget .22 plinker.

[@harrymallory7963]

Yeah, go ahead and keep dry firing that thing. In a couple of months you can tell me what a good idea that was.

[@LuisGarcia-qb3zb]

Ruger will fix it ...I'm dry firing the shit out of it

[@harrymallory7963]

@@LuisGarcia-qb3zb No! Dont! NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

[@LuisGarcia-qb3zb]

@@harrymallory7963 what are the consequences????

[@harrymallory7963]

@@LuisGarcia-qb3zb Ruger will send people to your home to beat you up.

[@LuisGarcia-qb3zb]

@@harrymallory7963 lol it's in their manual

[@tucsonjack3991]

Just subscribed to your channel. By far better than most others. I think Ruger is an excellent company in the quality of their products and customer service. I own a Ruger Wrangler, Gunsite Scout in 5.56, SR 1911 Lightweight Commander in 45ACP and a 10/22 Takedown. I haven’t had an problems with any of them. Thanks for your informative videos. Peace.

[@robertlipsey6056]

Good review. I own one and the loading gate will improve with use. Oil the friction points on the loading gate. When mine was new the gate had to be forced open.

[@jimmietanner52]

A GREAT GUN , A FUN GUN , CAN"T BEAT IT FOR THE PRICE !

[@minacapella8319]

Picked one of these up to have a cheap ammo plinker, and wanted a revolver also just for cool factor. I think my favorite aspect is the sights. Its a really good sight picture and just looks very aesthetically pleasing on top of that.

[@Skfoster64]

As always, great job!

[@Me2Lancer]

Thank you for your review of the Ruger Wrangler 22 revolver. It's one of the best reviews of this firearm I've seen. You have made it clear how much accuracy is impacted by ammo. Most handguns produce flyers and taking them out your results were pretty good.

[@jamiemartin1793]

Mine shoots great. No complaints

[@brhoffer7]

Bought 2 a week ago. 371.00 out the door. Got a black n a silver one. Painted the front blade for better sight picture. Could have bought a 3 for the price of a single six. Shot 350 rds thru both . Seems to like 40 or 45 grain bullets. 36 grain is all over the place shooting off rest bags. One shot a little high and to the left an inch. The other was the same but to the right. All at 10 yds. Loves aguilla 40 grain

[@daeoutdoors4658]

Just purchased one. Currently own the heritage. Great review.

[@wiki1979able]

Great video very informative I would also like to add that Ruger will repair the gun pretty much a lifetime warranty whereas the heritage Roughrider only has a one year warranty.I’ve been working on guns for many years and the Ruger is a much better quality firearm compared to the heritage something that will last a very long time if not a lifetime heritage you’re definitely gonna have to fix that eventually

[@kalibthomas2384]

I was always told that a 22 will shoot better with a dirty barrel vs a clean barrel and I believe it keep shooting the groups will tighten up never do an accuracy test with a clean barrel

[@DaDaDo661]

My cz 455 is way more accurate with a dirty barrel. It's true

[@twolak1972]

That's with any gun. No gun shoots the 1st shot ON from a clean barrel.

[@phil4986]

GREAT video. This is the best review I have ever seen on the Ruger Wrangler 22 long rifle revolver. Especially when you started pulling out the paper targets shot with a single cylinder of various types of 22 lr rounds. I don't need to see you shooting. I need to see the results. And you showed us the results. Thanks. I will your results to buy ammo when I get my Ruger Wrangler all black just like yours that I bought today for $206 from Buds Gun Shop.

[@azdean6897]

Best review of this Ruger 22 I have seen! Very informative.

[@mikemason4792]

Subbed. Please make a video of you shooting. Please show a close up photo of your painted front sight. I just shot my new Wrangler yesterday. Very accurate but my 71 year old eyes have difficulty picking up the front sight. Very good video and well presented. Thank you.

[@1947ramrod]

A little touch of Whiteout on the front sight will do wonders for those ageing eyes.

[@gooondie]

Buds Gun Shop just confirmed mine has been shipped 😆

[@SlickSixguns]

Never shot this revolver good review thanks for sharing

[@nacholibre1962]

Good review. The only thing negative I'd say is that unless you're goingt to shoot multiple groups (minimum three groups) with each ammo type and then average them , you really don't have a reliable result. One group with each ammo type is not accurate data.

[@avsafetytek]

Good information Mine shoots great if you practice you will improve your accuracy

[@richwilcox9564]

Really good review! Well done sir.

[@randallbyrd1973]

Awesome review thanks for sharing

[@swplatemaker]

Buying a gun that doesn't shoot straight is like going to a restaurant and getting a bad meal....you will never go back because of that one bad experience...!

[@1977Yakko]

Glad I wasn't the only one who was a little shocked at its initial poor accuracy. I just got one and at a range trip today as I type this, I was pretty disheartened. I was shooting at about 10 yds at a target with 25 circles on it (roughly the diameter of a pop can) and at first I was all over the place. It looked like a fired off a shotgun instead of .22 but by the time I got to the last 10 circles, it did get a little better. I mean, I'm no Wyatt Earp or Billy the Kid but I've been shooting for 20 + years so I'm not exactly terrible or anything but I was shocked at how poor I did. I'm not sure if I was doing something wrong, if it was the light weight ammo I was using or if it's just a break in thing but hopefully it gets better on future trips.

[@tzackaria7]

had mine for 2 years now and shoot it often. accuracy does not get better

[@1977Yakko]

@tzackaria7 thanks for the reply. My struggles with it continued and I ended up trading it for a Ruger MkIV 22/45 and that pistol performs MUCH better.

[@Carlos-nx8xr]

Same issues here. Probably accurate up to 5 yards

[@1977Yakko]

@@Carlos-nx8xr I can count the number of times I traded in a firearm with one hand and have fingers to spare. I was glad to be rid of the Wrangler. One of the few others I traded years ago was a Ruger SP101. I had to tighten a few screws on the thing every time I shot it. I didn't want to Loctite any of them either in case of a need for maintenance so I just swapped it for something else. Not sure why but I just haven't had much luck with Ruger revolvers. I have 4 other Ruger firearms (American Hunter 308, American rimfire, 10/22 and MkIV) that work great but their revolvers.... meh.

[@RU2AIM]

It's been said, 1/2 the fun of friendly .22 plinking competition is the variable the pistol itself introduces. Try removing the grip and see if you can't lift off 1/2 the trigger spring and ease up the trigger pull. Also, my Ruger Single-10 took about 2000 - 3000 rounds before it felt like it was broken in and dialed, but I shoot mine open sights, sandbag wrist-rested and at 4.25" clay pigeons at 200 yards. ...and every now and then I actually *hit one!*

[@justinpennington7682]

Yeah right

[@scotttilson8876]

The Ruger wranglers cost more than that. Lotta gun stores sell them for around $220 to 250.

[@matortiz2322]

I just recently bought a Ruger Wrangler to use outdoors for hunting and fishing purposes I guess I wasted my money it's bad when you can hit more accurately with a s&w air weight 38 special revolver

[@toshashoots5114]

Did you fire the gun from a rest? If not, then you can forget any kind of claim for accuracy, As a NRA Certified Pistol Instructor, I have heard many stories of accuracy or non-accuracy from folks who shot their gun freehand and used that to established whether the gun was accurate or not. Without using a rest, you cannot eliminate most of any human error and it is scientifically a very poor way of judging accuracy. Freehand establishes how accurate the shooter is, not how accurate the gun is. Good video, keep it up!

[@AZTrigger]

Good question and you are correct. I did bench rest the pistol when testing for accuracy.

[@LuisGarcia-qb3zb]

Note; you can definitely get the clicking sound if you cok it back half way

[@LuisGarcia-qb3zb]

Holding it... Which is useless I know

[@davidkurttila1466]

I have a Ruger Wrangler and find the accuracy isn't all that great. I've had worse guns. But has anyone asked Ruger why the accuracy isn't all that great? I trimmed down the front sight to move the impacted is zero is at 25 yards but it still shoots to the left by an inch or two. It would be interesting. What Ruger says.

[@scotttilson8876]

I have a Ruger wrangler. Super accurate. Most the time is usually the shooter. Or bad ammo that’s not loaded with a consistent powder charge.

[@davidkurttila1466]

@@scotttilson8876 funny thing. I recently bought another wrangler birds head and found the accuracy much better than the wrangler with the 4.5" barrel. I was shooting them side by side the 4.5 would shoot low left and the birds head would shoot nice groups dead center. Go figure.

[@8475143117]

I bought it for a cowboy fun gun and I'm sure I won't be disappointed...

[@harrymallory7963]

Co C, 2nd Bn, 4th INF, Badenerhof Kas, Heilbronn, 84-86!

[@8475143117]

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[@harrymallory7963]

@@8475143117 There should be a whole facebook group full of your kind. In fact, I think Ive seem it!

[@8475143117]

@@harrymallory7963 I figured there would be but I deleted my facebook account YEARS ago and deleted my Twitter account a few months ago

[@harrymallory7963]

@@8475143117 You're probably better off.

[@RevGunn-jq3cq]

It would be nice if Ruger would make them in double action

[@RU2AIM]

I agree and I'd have one. - but then again, Single Action is a category of fun all by it's own unique self.

[@twolak1972]

Then it would,nt be called a SINGLE SIX.

[@tzackaria7]

be nice if Ruger put a little quality into this gun

[@justinpennington7682]

​@@twolak1972it's not called single six , but I see what you mean

[@jefferynordgulen4436]

Funny; he said the heritage had better accuracy but the video I watch before this showed the wrangler was more acurate

[@garysh3580]

The accuracy depends upon what you use it for ,close up shots accuracy dosen't matter much ,like putting a deer out of its misery when shot in the spine or killing something in a trap and so on, it's not a target gun

[@tzackaria7]

it's not much of a gun period

[@JamesJones-cx5pk]

Put white out on the left side of your front sight.😅

[@nacholibre1962]

11:28 That is really flawed thinking. Out of the group wired with the Wrangler, you've got one winger. That says absolutelu nothing about the gun's accuray as it could have been shooter error. If you take that wingr out of the equation, you have just as tight a group as wiht the Mk 4. Hence you need to shoot more groups to get reliable data.

[@rosscajayon8177]

Are you sure about it capable of handling 22 magnum ammo?

[@Jeanie363034]

NO MAGNUMS in this gun

[@twolak1972]

Not in the wrangler. They don,t make a magnum cylinder for it.

[@antoniosanchezmiller4479]

leave the loading gate open for a week and honestly its soooo much better!

[@AZTrigger]

Antonio SanchezMiller Great suggestion. I’ll give it a try and see how it works...

[@RU2AIM]

I'm going to try that with my Single-10, ThanQ

[@GUARDIAN.13]

Accuracy is non standard unless it's in a non moving scenario like a vise. The Accuracy of the gun is if it is held in the same exact place how tight of a group does it have. Practical accuracy is then the humans ability to use that accuracy. Theoretically the wrangler would have more going for it in the accuracy department than your lite mk4 as it has a very heavy cold hammer forged barrel, the problem lies in the practical accuracy... If you milled the gun to take the iron sights that are on your mk4 I would bet that the groups would shrink. Long story short the sights on old single actions suck and hamper the shooter but doesn't affect actual accuracy.

[@theobserver6579]

Locked mine in a vice and it was only capable of producing 7 inch groups at 15 feet 😑 Complete piece of junk.

[@douglasmaccullagh1267]

Great point about practical accuracy. I am not a great marksman with a handgun, but I do much better with a revolver than an automatic. I am thrilled with the accuracy of my Wrangler. I get better groups with the Wrangler than any other handgun I've tried. That may say more about my shooting than the gun, but it is great for me, and practice with it is helping with other pistols. Not a target gun? It has fixed sights, so no, not a target gun. But a fun fun and a good shooter that is teaching me to hit a paper plate when previously I did well to hit a barn door? My Wrangler is great!!

[@garysh3580]

@@theobserver6579 haha

[@theobserver6579]

@@garysh3580 Sent it back to Ruger and turns out the whole firearm was defective. Bad cylinder, bad barrel, and the hammer improperly milled.

[@davidmartin8953]

DO NOT DRY-FIRE! Had to hone out the cylinders with a fine Dimond round file from a gunsmith set to fit multiple 22lr. rounds! Dryfire will score the loading face! easy fix! All rounds drop right in! Tight shot groups with all 22lr 50 to 100 yds!...They are FOS!

[@tzackaria7]

100 yds? just who ya trying to BS?

[@swplatemaker]

LOOKS GOOD...FEELS GOOD...DOESN'T SHOOT WORTH A DAMN...NOT EVEN A GOOD PLINKER.....MIGHT MAKE A GOOD PAPER WEIGHT BUT IT'S NOT A SHOOTER...!

[@tzackaria7]

absolutely correct Sir.

[@pickin4you]

You need to understand how each fin is made and how they are different before you go showing how a semi auto outahoots the revolvers. They always will. A semi auto has ONE chamber and each round is fired from the same chamber which it reamed into the barrel. ALL revolver have many different chambers which are disconnected from the barrel. Also, testing ammo. You cannot just swap from one or another and see what that ammo does. It takes at least one round per inch of barrel length to lube the bore with that ammos lube. Each brand has a different lube. Some most of your results will be false. They might be better or they might be worse if done correctly. But again, revolvers will never be as accurate as a semi auto unless you have a custom cylinder hand made and hand fitted to exact tolerances.

[@ronalddavis]

accuracy is subjective but to me that was horrible

[@larryguevara3350]

That's pretty bad accuracy at 10 yards. I've shot a few of the wranglers . Not impress at all. Won't buy one .they do look nice .that's it.

[@garysh3580]

Use a rifle

[@twolak1972]

It's probably you. Most people blame the gun for poor shooting technique.

[@tzackaria7]

@@twolak1972 I hit what I aim at, except with this piece of junk

[@twolak1972]

@@tzackaria7 You must be shooting a heritage. HAHAHA Who puts a safety on a REVOLVER. Just shows how stupid they think people are.

[@reptileguy8458]

Loading gate is not that stiff. Open and close the loading gate 100 times add a VERY SMALL amount of gun oil....and doing those two things loosens it up nicely. As this gun ages with putting rounds through it it becomes more accurate and the hammer and loading gate ease up. Before you go purchase a Wrangler check out the SUPER Wrangler.

[@reptileguy8458]

Safe/Okay to dry fire?

[@JamesJones-cx5pk]

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