IX-3
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Both are really cool, I lean towards the Henry. As much as I like the Ruger, I’d rather have 762x39 in something semiauto. Unless you really like bolt guns of course. Only negatives I’ve heard about the Ruger is of course the proprietary mags. I could be wrong but I don’t believe they’ll take anything other than Ruger mags.
The 7.62x39 will only take the Mini Thirty mags, which is nice if you already own a Mini Thirty and want a bolt action to go with it. Not so nice of you only have the bolt action and then have to drop $40 on a 10 round magazine. Though I do believe it at least comes with a 5 round magazine compared to most of the other models that have 3 or 4 round magazines.
Most of the other Predator and Ranch models take either AI style magazines or AR magazines which is nice but a few do only accept the flush fit magazines from Ruger based on what I saw. The standard models I believe only take the flush fit magazines from Ruger.
That being said Ruger did give me a 20% off coupon for their shop when I registered both my Predator and my 10/22 so you can at least save a little on the magazines.