William B. Ruger
American designer and entrepreneurWikipedia
7
MENTIONS
5
EPISODES
4
PODCASTS
Search complete. 7 mentions across 5 episodes found for "William B. Ruger".
Sep 22, 2026
Jeremy PozderacHOST
There's enough market share.
Jeremy PozderacHOST
This isn't, like, something that's going to, fucking Bill Ruger's rolling in his grave.
Sean HeronHOST
Oh, I'm sure.
Sean HeronHOST
Yeah.
Adam WeatherbyGUEST
And, you know, we were 45, you know, in the 40s, there was, you know, still owned would be like Hornady, Nosler, Hodgdon, you know, a few of those ones, primarily all ammo and, you know, powder and stuff like that.
Adam WeatherbyGUEST
But Bill Ruger started three years after my grandfather, you know, they're currently public.
Adam WeatherbyGUEST
You know, you have Remington and stuff they've gone through, obviously, you know, but they're 200 years old plus, but had stuff.
Adam WeatherbyGUEST
So to have it be still, you know, family owned.
Tom GreshamHOST
I mean, Colt had them, but not really making a lot of them.
Tom GreshamHOST
And then this crazy guy named Bill Ruger said, "You know, I think I'll make a new style modern single-action revolver." And people said, "You've gotta be kidding me.
Tom GreshamHOST
Nobody wants those."
Dave WorkmanGUEST
That's something that I, I really learned to appreciate when I got to know Bill Ruger.
Dave WorkmanGUEST
When I did the interview with him, the first interview, it struck me that I was talking to a genius.
Dave WorkmanGUEST
He knew what the American public wanted, and he delivered.
Tom GreshamHOST
A, a single-shot falling block rifle, for heaven's sakes.
Dave WorkmanGUEST
But yeah, Bill, he was a brilliant guy.
Jason ClousnerGUEST
He kinda made a hybrid, and that was kind of, like, the top of the line custom revolver for a long time.
Jason ClousnerGUEST
Well, fast-forward to the 1980s, Bill Ruger, who was friends with Elmer Keith, he came up with his own Bisley grip frame that was kind of a, an, a progression from the Elmer Keith thing.
Jason ClousnerGUEST
It wasn't as an extreme grip angle as the original Colt Bisley, but it was a little bit more of a modified one.
Jason ClousnerGUEST
And it, what they found was that that grip frame, being a little bit longer and a little bit more of a straight-down grip, really handled recoil well.
John McAdamsHOST
Those were both big developments, but the best was yet to come.
John McAdamsHOST
In a massive move that surprised some, Bill Ruger opted to chamber the new Ruger M77 Mark II rifle, AKA the Ruger Safari Magnum, in .416 Rigby.
John McAdamsHOST
Federal also picked up the cartridge in the late 1980s and in the early 1990s.
John McAdamsHOST
Now, as far as I know, the Ruger Safari Magnum was the first mass-produced rifle available in .416 Rigby.