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Did Ruger stop making the Redhawk
- Thread starter Noreaster
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Ruger HAS answered this question recently. They have said the Redhawk is temporarily unavailable. There is a problem with one of the suppliers, and they also are getting Redhawk, and Super Redhawk production moved to North Carolina. Ruger has NOT dropped production of the Redhawk, in favor of the Super Redhawk, and never did.
QuarterHorse
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Supply and demand. I'm certain that the poly pistols are selling hand over fist better than the Redhawks right now. I had just watched a thing on Ruger and they had said the Redhawk will live for a long time but the poly stuff is the "in demand" ticket right now.
Dragline45
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That sucks to say the least. I have been in the market for a Redhawk in .45 Colt for the past 3 years, only problem is I never found one because they never made enough. Gee, I wonder why they weren't selling very many... I'll take a classic Redhawk over the ugly as sin Super Redhawk any day.
Given these two recent threads, it seems like Ruger's only genuine error here is that some guy -runs- to update the website according to the posted production calendar.
Certainly, we could argue that it's "great", "terrific" and "up-front" (and toss any other happy praises you can conjure) that Ruger wants to reflect specifically what is happening in their facility by means of their website... but it sure seems like it doesn't accomplish much.
I would hazard a guess that every gunmaker, especially the ones with a large & varied catalog take SOME models out of production for months at a time just as a normal course of daily business. I doubt -anyone- has the tooling or even floor space to produce EVERY item in their catalog EVERY single week or even month.
What would happen if Winchester or Federal took .25 & .32 Auto off their website today? There's a darn good chance they aren't planning production of a single round of that stuff for MONTHS (either that or it's been MONTHS since they made a single round of it) because they tool up for it once in a while and make a pile of it. It's always been that way.
Certainly, we could argue that it's "great", "terrific" and "up-front" (and toss any other happy praises you can conjure) that Ruger wants to reflect specifically what is happening in their facility by means of their website... but it sure seems like it doesn't accomplish much.
I would hazard a guess that every gunmaker, especially the ones with a large & varied catalog take SOME models out of production for months at a time just as a normal course of daily business. I doubt -anyone- has the tooling or even floor space to produce EVERY item in their catalog EVERY single week or even month.
What would happen if Winchester or Federal took .25 & .32 Auto off their website today? There's a darn good chance they aren't planning production of a single round of that stuff for MONTHS (either that or it's been MONTHS since they made a single round of it) because they tool up for it once in a while and make a pile of it. It's always been that way.