8.5 pounds dry, naked rifle weight, you must add to that weight if she gets dressed with a scope and rings.
28" barrel that is 0.615" diameter at the muzzle.
It is no longer than a bolt action with a 24" barrel.
Ought to do about 2800 fps with 140-grainers soft and sexy on the shoulder.

Scope is the 2007 Leupold "Century Limited Edition" 3-9x40mm with B&C-type ranging reticle.

If this rifle is accurate it will be more than just interesting, i.e., truly arousing ... and the barrel will last a long time, unless it gets rechambered to 26 Ripmoor.

























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You should have added the disclaimer: "Not suitable for viewing at work, XXX rated."

Ha ha made you look.

Very nice rifle! One of those is on my "if I win the lottery" list.

Would love to see an accuracy report!

nice, outstanding work

quote:

Originally posted by ColoradoMatt:
Would love to see an accuracy report!

Yep, I am anxious to get that done too, but have lately had too many extraneous life distractions from the important professional small boy endeavors.

Fingers crossed, though I have had good luck with Ruger No. 1 rifles in the past,
like tiny groups with a .510/460Wby that could hit paper in the cow pasture at 942 yards.





Oops! This is the small bore forum ... as you were ...

When I go to the range I will be fire-forming 26 Ripmoor and checking a 6.5 Creedmoor Ruger No. 1 for accuracy during barrel cooling breaks.
Will post results here.


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Some "redeeming social value":











First three shots at 100 yards, when wind was calm, and compensating errors accumulated luckily:



Cardboard backing of the paper target:





Mounted trophy target:



Hornady ammo:



The wind picked up, a gusting tail wind quartering slightly from right to left on target, by the time I got to the 20th round, see flags scattered about here:





300-yard steel, six shots, six hits, five in the white, one in the red, the match bullets just splash the paint off of the half-inch-thick mild steel:



When zeroed at 100 yards, the bullets drop about a foot and drifted left about 3 inches, roughly judging.

Jewell:








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quote:

Originally posted by ColoradoMatt:
Would love to see an accuracy report!

Me too. I had four bad experiences with number on accuracy.
Great looking rifle.

My condolences. I have had only good results with Ruger No. 1 accuracy.
This is no statistically significant "accuracy report" just another anecdote:





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Need lens covers with a gold ring so folks know it's a Leupold.

Great idea! I'll see about getting a gold ring painted on the Butler Creek plastic,
or maybe see if I can find one of those screw-on disc covers, that leaves the gold ring showing, for at least the objective.

The Creedmoor Girl from: http://www.65creedmoor.com/


I put a yellow rubber band around the Butler Creek until I can get some of these:









Screw-on, magnetic fastening, and spring loaded flip-up.

https://www.leupold.com/huntin...-lens-cover-32-33mm/

Alumina Flip-Back Lens Cover

Designed for Leupold scopes built after 2003, Alumina® Flip-Back™ lens covers feature powerful neodymium magnets to hold them securely closed and the triple O-ring seals provide maximum protection from the elements. Constructed out of durable 6061-T6 aircraft grade aluminum, they are precisely machined to allow for quick and easy operation, and a low-profile position, when open, make these Flip-Back lens covers stand above the rest. The round objective and ocular models can be rotated so they can open in any direction. Scopes built prior to 2003 can be threaded to accept Alumina accessories at a 50% discount, with proof of purchase, through the Leupold Custom Shop by calling 800-538-7653.

Love those Alumina's. Every Leupold scope I have sports them. Well worth it. A little spendy but how often does one replace a worn out scope or what goes on them anyway. Regarding price - you only cry once.

Another vote for the Alumina covers. Pricey, but well worth the money. Nothing to lay down or lose. They are always there. Love 'em!

RIP always loved your raw enthusiasm for the game and choice of rifles...... but geez man whats with that Dinky Toy pickup ?

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Originally posted by ALF:
RIP always loved your raw enthusiasm for the game and choice of rifles...... but geez man whats with that Dinky Toy pickup ?

ALF, my friend, That is a "Kentucky Technical." It is my Ford Ranger Edge Package. Though I am not afflicted with "truck envy," EVERY MAN NEEDS AN EDGE.




It is a collector item now, but still capable of hauling one frozen bull bison in coolers from Nebraska to Kentucky in a 23-hour run.
It also hauls all sorts of other things here and there.
Lessee, you can stand 22 five gallon buckets in the bed in one layer, full of red lava rock weighing 800 pounds, unnoticeable on the road.



Everybody needs a Kentucky Technical.

I sure hope Ford brings back The Ranger, in case I need another one. Maybe with an aluminum frame and better gas mileage next time around?
P235/75R15 tires ain't bad either.

Pictures remind me to clean the wheels and paint the flag holder mounting block.

quote:

Originally posted by Cougarz:
Love those Alumina's. Every Leupold scope I have sports them. Well worth it. A little spendy but how often does one replace a worn out scope or what goes on them anyway. Regarding price - you only cry once.

I have a set of them on a 2.5-8x36mm, but can't afford them on ALL my Leupolds.
I could almost buy another toy truck with that much money.



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Sir,
Is this a factory offering from Ruger?
I have several #1s but have not bought any recently..this might change my mind...

Thanks,
Bill

Very interesting project RIP, thanks for all of the information.
I find your "reports" way more interesting, objective and educational than most of the gun-rag writers, of today, can muster.

You should have been a writer !

Your imagination, when it comes to mounting scopes is also inspirational !!! (.510/460)

Keep up the great work and the great reports

quote:

Originally posted by RIP:

quote:

Originally posted by ALF:
RIP always loved your raw enthusiasm for the game and choice of rifles...... but geez man whats with that Dinky Toy pickup ?

ALF, my friend, That is a "Kentucky Technical." It is my Ford Ranger Edge Package. Though I am not afflicted with "truck envy," EVERY MAN NEEDS AN EDGE.




It is a collector item now, but still capable of hauling one frozen bull bison in coolers from Nebraska to Kentucky in a 23-hour run.
It also hauls all sorts of other things here and there.
Lessee, you can stand 22 five gallon buckets in the bed in one layer, full of red lava rock weighing 800 pounds, unnoticeable on the road.



Everybody needs a Kentucky Technical.

I sure hope Ford brings back The Ranger, in case I need another one. Maybe with an aluminum frame and better gas mileage next time around?
P235/75R15 tires ain't bad either.

Pictures remind me to clean the wheels and paint the flag holder mounting block.

I am envious of the truck.

Mike

that's not a REAL truck. It's waaaaay too clean, and doesn't have any dents in it...

quote:

Everybody needs a Kentucky Technical.

Now it just needs a heavy machine gun mounted in the bed to make a true technical.

quote:

Originally posted by Bo-regard:
Sir,
Is this a factory offering from Ruger?
I have several #1s but have not bought any recently..this might change my mind...

Thanks,
Bill

Straight factory, new in box from the local emporium: www.whittakerguns.com

quote:

Originally posted by Paul Truccolo:
Very interesting project RIP, thanks for all of the information.
I find your "reports" way more interesting, objective and educational than most of the gun-rag writers, of today, can muster.

You should have been a writer !

Your imagination, when it comes to mounting scopes is also inspirational !!! (.510/460)

Keep up the great work and the great reports

Paul,
You are too kind. But hey, on the internet everyone can be a "gunwriter."

quote:

Originally posted by Idaho Sharpshooter:
that's not a REAL truck. It's waaaaay too clean, and doesn't have any dents in it...

Rich,
Look closer, there is a dent showing on the left of the bed top side, just forward of the "Edge" logo on the left rear corner of the truck.
That is from lumberjack duty. I got careless (pooped out) while heaving a chainsawed log into the bed.
This is a working truck, not a toy!

Beretta682E and Cougarz,

You are truly truck connoisseurs whose comments are much appreciated. Some more truck cheesecake would be fun for me too.



Some here might question my "trucker credentials."
Well, while I was a college student I had a job driving a flatbed truck that delivered 40-foot-long steel I-beams to construction sites in Eastern Kentucky.

I am talking I-75 from Lexington to the hills of "Bloody Harlan" and Hazard here.
That was where the locals sat on park benches outside the grocery stores while their wives shopped.
The husbands whittled, chewed, and spit and showed off their pocket knives and "pocket pistols" to each other.
Doing the "man duty" while waiting for the women to bring the groceries, to be driven home in non-toy trucks.

I drove a school bus briefly. It was not "the short bus" and it was hell! That's all I have to say about that.

When I returned to Alaska as a civilian, after my AirForce days,
I drove a packed 26-foot-box U-Haul truck from Tallahassee, Florida to Eagle River, Alaska (about 5,400 miles, IIRC) in 1992,
and I drove one back to Kentucky too, after the weather up there got to be too much for my southern belle better half.
I have known the thrills of fish-tailing a top-heavy, overloaded 26-foot box truck along the Alcan highway, recovering from a drop-off shoulder -- jerking the steering wheel for a good 30-degree lean on the truck with all starboard tires airborne and all port tires digging the gravel at 60 MPH, before settling down.

In 1984 I bought a brand new Regular Cab Chevy PU Truck, with tan paint to resemble Clint "Right turn Clyde" Eastwood's old GMC PU truck.



Compilation youtube "Right turn, Clyde" with audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i98QrSSHxo4

Then I traded it in the next year for an SUV that ALF might approve of, fit for getting around in Alaska and BC, different country than the soft southern USA.

I did THREE complete roundtrips from "The South" to Alaska and back in this one, my pet from 1985 to 1996. I wish I still had it.

It was a 1985 GMC full-sized Jimmy, before it was renamed the Yukon, 4WD, V8, with running boards, spare-tire hanger on the stern, cowcatcher&bug deflector on the bow, and CB radio: 10-4

Left MO and detoured to KY to visit my parents before heading to AK:



Arrived at Badlands, South Dakota at sunup on 9-20-1985,
pulling a second set of wheels on a tow dolly, packed with stuff left over after Mayflower took the household goods from MO, headed to AK:



Mount Rushmore was not so highly developed back then as it is now:



Wall Drug has grown some too since then, always was an amazing oasis:



The tow dolly was swapped for a little U-Haul trailer in Seattle, and the old car was shipped from there to Anchorage.
Next stop Hope British Columbia:



Hope, BC is the town where the first Rambo movie was done. Here is the bridge that Rambo walked across, over the Coquihalla River.
I am standing here with my pocket knife between my teeth, since I did not have my Rambo knife handy:



Onward across BC, foreground tree is a blur, background landscape not so blurry, snapshot on the go:



Love a road trip:



The Yukon-Alaska border is near, that is not a hand puppet sticking out of the Jimmy window, that is my son checking out the scenery, I think it grew on him:



September 29, 1985 we arrived in Alaska for the first time, the kids never drove it again, they always flew commercial after this.
The wife did one more round-trip road trip with me, and I got a third round-trip road trip by myself, one leg of which was in dead of winter,
in the Jimmy:





My son, above, was four months old, when he moved from Warrensburg, Missouri to Anchorage, Alaska, 31 years ago.
He moved to near Denver, Colorado two years ago, and now has a deposit paid on the first Honda Ridgeline the dealer is awaiting there, near Denver.
Yep, Honda discontinued the Ridgeline, but they are bringing it back, new for 2017 model year. Expected to arrive at dealers in NA before the end of September 2016.



Yep, I am proud of my boy. He loves the mountains and he is finally getting a "truck." Not a toy.

Hopefully Ford will bring back the Ranger.

http://2017fordranger.com/



Suspiciously similar to the Ridgeline in appearance ...

Hopefully Ford doesn't do the aluminum thing to the Ranger like they did to the F-150's. It would definitely take it out of the work truck catagory. My brother would be happy if they brought back the Ranger, he still is driving his old one.

Love those old Jimmy's/Blazer's. Too bad they still don't make them. I'm more a GM guy.

My Son has a new toy. When he picked up his new Honda Ridgeline in Denver, hell, I was there!

Amazing toy truck! It is the "Black Edition" or some such with all the bells and whistles.
Darn thing talks too! Sort of like Kit on "Night Rider."
Sound system has stereo speakers in the bed of the truck. Cooler in compartment under bed at rear, it is going to be a tailgaiting machine.
Roof rails are owed by dealer and will be installed when the parts arrive. That will make more options for hauling the skis for the ski team. And the AWD will be good for getting in and out of the ski resort parking lots at over 2-mile elevations. To each his own craziness. At least when "Rambo" is skiing, he is not rock climbing.
The toy truck nearly drives itself, with some kind of radar to keep it in lane on cruise control, and some kind of automatic braking, collision avoidance system.
Unibody construction gives it great payload, but not so great towing capacity.
I got dibbs on it if I am still alive when he wants to sell it.

I do not need a $43K Ridgeline for my chores. My toy truck will do:





One pallet loaded by forklift, with 40 cap blocks (4"x8"x16" solid concrete) fits long ways in the bed between the rear wheel wells.
Payload: 1490 pounds
Springs were bottomed out but still had some bounce in the shocks.
My wife once drove my Ranger across town, over railroad track crossings, etc.,
with 2700 pounds of black lava rock shoveled into the topper-covered bed of the truck.
She accomplished this without my input,
until I had to shovel it out onto her flower beds.

I would not refuse a Christmas ham should Ruger decide to send it. I have been shilling for them since 1978. I am now a spokesperson for Ford too.

RIP; you are truly a discerning rifleman. ! My 6.5 Creedmoor. Stainless Hawkeye is one of my all time favorite rifles. . Have you played with different powder and bullet combos in it?
H 4350 being the top powder over the long haul so far. However , Rl 17 has been working great for me with 130 gr bullets. And Varget with light bullets. 110 gr Barnes.

Cold Trigger Finger,
Thanks for the reply. I am sticking with 140-grainers and H4350 to keep it simple.
I like the idea of RL-17 for 130-grainers and Varget with lighter weights. Will take your word for it. I might need some varmint loads some day.

If you want to play at long range ,without paying thru the nose. I strongly recommend the SWFA SS, Classic line of fixed and variable scopes. The fixed power Classic line of scopes can be got for $269.00 on SWFA's Sample List. Amazing value. . I shoot the 144 gr Lapua fmjbt pushed by H4350 For fur hunting. It flus thru the air with the greatest of ease. Or at least very well. It just pokes a hole thru them.

In the morning I'll be caribou hunting with mine. Shooting 130 gr TSX or 130 gr Sirocco' s.

Add another caribou to the tally for my 6.5 Creedmoor. 130 gr TSX HBN tumbled. 43.5 gr Rl 17. 372 layered yards. 1-4 SWFA SS Classic scope set on 4power . Standing with a willow stick for a rest.

If Barnes made a 140 gr TSX that would be the bullet I shoot out of my 6.5 Creedmoor. But, alas.

They aren't binging back the Ranger ,just using the name !
Size will be about the same as a F-150 of the 2004 era once called the Heritage.

My 6.5x55 uses a 140 @ 2750 with 4350 !Great combo in my M98 custom.

I haven't seen a new truck that I'd consider trading the '86 F-350 for, at least as this one is equipped with air lockers and a removable winch.