I think that they are both very very close is reliability and quality.Except the rugers all have spring loading and remington you can have clips which are much more convenient.Also the remington seem to have a better out of the box accuracy, and the ruger rifles are know to have much more recoil.But that is just if recoil bothers a person or not.put it this way cthough if u like sort of old style go for ruger or if u like a little bit more modern technology go with the remington it is all up to a person point of view and everyones point of veiw is different.