 Hey there friends, thanks for checking in. Today we're looking at Ruger's newest release. It's a Ruger American competition model made for competition full-size handgun with a 5 inch barrel long grip there with magazines that carry 17 rounds. I think the engineers at Ruger are working overtime. They certainly are pumping out some guns and the timing could not be better. I know a lot of people are still competing. They love full-size guns. I love full-size guns. If you're ever lacking in range confidence, grab a gun like this and it will restore that because they are so accurate. But this embodies everything that the American series has with a couple additional features that I think you're going to like. And also they kept the MSRP at 579. So it's a very attractive price considering many competition full-size guns of this nature are priced $800 to $1,200 and that the competition people know that is the market for many full-size competition guns. But here we go. It does have a gritty texture on the grip and on the back strap, the front strap, very very gritty. You get a great feel on the gun. You know the grip feels really nice and it does come with additional palm swells, grip modules to custom fit the hand size. The one in the case that it came with fits my hand pretty pretty perfectly. I've got average size hands. Some people say they're large but I think they're average. But 17 round mags right does come with two and then the five inch barrel. Now you can see that it does have some lightning cuts in the front of the slide. I think that looks super cool but it also cuts down on some of the weight. It's an ambidextrous gun with the slide stop and magazine release on both sides. Okay so it is left-handed friendly. It's got a pick rail there for accessories and it's also optic ready which is the direction, the competition, many CCW people are going in. Now this is cut to fit a vortex, a burris, a sight mark, a doctor and a couple others. So a wide variety of red dots will work with this gun. The rear sight is adjustable. All right fully adjustable, serrated black rear sight and a fiber optic front sight. Okay very nice sight picture when aligned. It does have a sight hole indicator right there and some serrations on top to cut down on some of the glare. Get a load of that. I love competition guns or at least full-size guns like this but the five inch barrels are so accurate. Now the trigger I'm measuring right at five and a half pounds. It does have a trigger bar safety there but we'll go ahead and pull right at five and a half pounds sometimes a little bit more but that's your reset right there. All right so it's got a nice trigger pull, nice overall look to it and now we're going to get it on the scale. 17 round mags. I was able to load those mags fairly easily too. It wasn't a big deal. Didn't break my thumbs. I didn't feel the need for a speed loader. The unloaded weight with the mag inserted two pounds, two ounces. We moved that to just ounces. We're looking at 34 ounces and that's what the website says but if we add 17 rounds we'll go ahead and throw that in there and that is weighing in at 41 and 3 8 ounces. So a little heavier all right and that's what's to be expected with a full-sized gun like this. It disassembles the same way as the other American guns do in the series now. It started out with just you know the full-size American. Now there's a full series and Ruger just keeps cranking them out and I've said since day one that I think the American series is their best models to date. I know a lot of people like the SR series and some of the other ones but I like the American series. I said that from the onset the minute that I first shot the original and that was a full-size gun Ruger American but you lock the slide back push that lever down no need to pull the trigger and off comes the slide and here's a glass filled nylon frame all right polymer but Ruger calls it a glass filled nylon they may add something a little different in there maybe glass I don't know and then here we have a single recoil spring and guide rod and here is see get that out there the five inch barrel nice setup and there's your slide all right and that's what we're looking at with the frame I'm telling you Ruger is kicking these things out one after another they're pumping out the guns and I think the gun market is welcoming them with open arms they love the variety that they are offering and you know I recently reviewed the PC charger now the American competition gun and I'm so excited and I plan to get this to the range shortly I really want to do that because I already mentioned like six times that I love the competition guns this is certainly a nice one I think Ruger did a nice job and they kept it priced well at 579 MSRP I have to believe maybe initially it's gonna cost right around that maybe 550 or so but the history has shown that over time they decrease in price and I don't think this one will be any different but there it is Ruger's newest release this is a first look review and I'll be doing a range review very shortly if you like videos like this please subscribe and share I always appreciate thumbs up button thanks for watching and you guys be safe