I recently purchased a beautiful 1-v in 22-250 1979 manufacture. I saved for some time for this rifle . The bad news is it doesnt shoot worth a damn. I have been searching the forums and the net for solutions. the washer mod is mentioned several times and I was wondering if someone had a picture of this they could e-mail me. k20350@msn.com. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Sorry fellas i just took the forend off for the first time and it appears this rifle has a hicks accurizer on it. Alas it shoots all over the board. the set screw is turned pretty far in also. Kind of disheartening after lusting for so long. I shot three different factory loads in it. I have not put any of my handloads through it yet, any pet loads? Any tricks?

My 1V 22PPC has had the forend relieved so it doesn't contact the action and the forewood glass bedded to the hanger so the barrel is completly free floating from the receiver forward.

Has shot a small of 0.210"

I have an article from RIFLE #191 magazine I am emailing to you.
Not sure if it will fit into MSN's emailbox

Very nice article hair trigger. I guess I will take to my gunsmith and have it bedded. If the accurizer isnt helping maybe that will. I just love this rifle. I usually am disapointedd in a rifle if it doesnt shoot less than MOA but this one I'll take MOA if I can get it

K20350,
For Tricks with the Hicks try the Ruger # 1 Group at www.groups.yahoo.com/group/RUGER-1 there's about 450 members that are in that group that are dedicated Ruger # 1 users. I'm sure someone there will have some tips for you. In fact they have a Ruger # 1 Bench Rest Match coming up this spring so these guys are shooters and tend to know how to make a # 1 shoot.
S/S

Try backing off the Hicks set screw until there is no contact. Can you still slide a thin piece of paper between the wood and barrel? If so then place paper shims (.012" NRA target paper works well) between the forend tip and the barrel until their is some upward pressure on the barrel. Play with the Hicks and paper shims until you get the barrel to settle down. When you find the correct shim thickness (good accuracy) replace the shim with a dab of clear silicone. Be sure to use some kind of mold release on the barrel. This has worked well on all my #1's and 3's.
For some reason complete "free floating" has never worked for me with Ruger single shots. A little forend tip pressure is necessary (with or without the Hicks) and has never caused vertical stringing...at least for me. Also, I always rest for forearm on the sand bags...not the barrel.
Don't give up. You've got a nice rifle and unless the problem is something besides
bedding you should be able to get it to shoot.
Good luck...

Jon

FWIW, I also own a #1V in 25-06, and it also shot patterns 1st time out with factory loads. But when I switched to handloads, groups got nice and tight.... I think I still have some of these factory loads somewhere.
These rifles have a rather long throat, and most factory stuff has deeply-seated bullets, meaning long bullet jump and lousy accuracy (JMO). I found I really needed to handload in order to get good performance from my rifle, seating the bullet out to touch the lands (way over OAL spec, BTW)

I appreciate all the help everyone. I drive truck so time at home is precious. I will have to work on it this weekend at home. It was frustrating getting in the truck monday and leaving this challenge behind. I guess I will be spending saturday morning at the reloading bench. ("Darn") I will definantly try the barrel pressure trick

I would hear the results when you get it done

The good news is that a No 1 can shoot right with the best of them....I've built three that a good shooter can get .2 or better. The bad news is that the 1979 factory barrel probably looks much better than it will shoot. Many of these are a POS! All of those hanger/fore end tricks work, and I use my version of them all, but you still can't polish a turd.There are plenty out there that will shoot, but I've never owned a 1 B with a factory cm barrel that would. An early No 1 is often so beautiful that it is worth the effort/cost of a custom barrel.
Don't get discouraged, your efforts will eventually be rewarded.
David