This is not meant as an endorsement or a bashing of the old Ruger Red Label(s). . . . but I've got a good friend who is a duck guide for 60 days every year in AR. He has killed more ducks with his RRL than most of us have ever seen, much less killed. It failed him many years ago wherein it wouldn't fire the top barrel sometimes, and the ejectors weren't very good, either. I would put the number of ducks it has killed way into the thousands. But then, he is the kind of guy that could kill limits of ducks with a Spanish El Faisan, if that's all he had.
We were hunting together once, many years ago, and he handed it to me, and told me to shoot a duck with it. i did and handed it back to him. It was hugely unremarkable . . . . but it would kill a duck. Much like an inexpensive hammer will drive a nail.
