{"id":255,"date":"2009-05-17T19:32:05","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T00:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/?p=255"},"modified":"2013-12-10T14:15:37","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T20:15:37","slug":"the-surprise-from-ruger-the-sr-556","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/the-surprise-from-ruger-the-sr-556\/255\/","title":{"rendered":"The surprise from Ruger &#8211; the SR-556"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It wasn&#8217;t exactly a Ruger 1911 as many guessed prior to the NRA show, but another option for the fan of the AR Platform. We had the first look at the SR-556 some months ago and we have been waiting for the official launch. We guessed it would come out at SHOT Show in January &#8211; it didn&#8217;t. Ruger decided to wait until May and now it is here. DRTV together with 3-Gun shooter Tom Hines (Tactical Solutions) had the chance to run a couple of 100 rounds through it at Ben Avery Shooting Range on Thursday and a video report will be available later in the upcoming week.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the video from the launch at the NRA Annual Meetings &amp; Exhibits in Phoenix:<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><center><embed src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/ps\/player\/pds\/E2arxiOMXt&amp;Affiliate=Down+Range+TV&#038;pid=os9_iBOw9en_9uij542n2Gyv47P_I3XU\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It wasn&#8217;t exactly a Ruger 1911 as many guessed prior to the NRA show, but another option for the fan of the AR Platform. We had the first look at the SR-556 some months ago and we have been waiting for the official launch. We guessed it would come out at SHOT Show in January [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,58],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-news-from-the-industry","tag-ruger-sr-556"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}