Now THAT is what the limited run Lipsey's SHOULD be like, in 6.5x55, and I'd want one at the price offered!

6.5BR: I'd buy two if i could get it at that price, Thanks!
Gcf: will due, thanks!

i have had 2. a short barrelled 30-06 and a varmiter 22-250. both were accurate, but the 30-06 killed my shoulder, and i just traded the 22-250 for a browning 78 in 45/70.

I have one #1- a 1-H in 416 rigby.

I use it for deer on up....

I just fired a couple of groups to verify zero wiht my 1.75-4 Bushnell scope- just under an inch at 100, sighted about 1 inch high, then backed off to 200, group was just under 2 inchs, dead even....

I shoot High Power competitively with an M1 in 30-06, so I use my Rigby as a flinch control tool-if I can hold it close and squeeze off a 350 grn 416 Rigby at just under 2600F/S, the 12 lb NMM1 with 168s at 2650 is a toy... .

A few of my hunting buddies question my choice of caliber, but I have yet to fail stopping a charging whitetail.... Just hammers them.

I may pick up a #1 sporter in 30-06-that wouls be a good light game gun-you know, for squirrels and the like...

God Bless

They are like wives, everybody should have at least one.

I currently have a No. 1S in .338 Win. Mag.

My past ones have been a No. 1H in .375 H&H, a No. 1B in .25-06, No. 1As in .357 Magnum, .243 Winchester, and 7x57, and a No. 3 in .30-40 Krag.

I wish they would make a No. 1A with 24-inch barrel in .280 Remington.

Dave

When I had my 26" 1b, it was heavy, and interestingly I saw a guy leaving the range one day with a 1B chopped to 22", it handled NICE!

Just an idea if the 280 comes that way.

Lots of #1's out there !! Mine are 338-06 AI, 243 and a 308. The 243 is my favorite, 22 in. fluted barrel and a 2x7 leopold scope. Its pretty light for a #1 and is accurate. They are like contenders, you have one and you have to have more !!! You will like yours once you understand what makes them tick.

Hello to all you No 1 owners!! I just bought my first #1 it's a #1-B 220 swift.Now I want MORE,I'm thinking about a 204-or 243 as my next one,any suggestions?

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Originally posted by Wyo Elk:
Hello to all you No 1 owners!! I just bought my first #1 it's a #1-B 220 swift.Now I want MORE,I'm thinking about a 204-or 243 as my next one,any suggestions?

My vote would go to the 204.

I thought that you might say that!! is your's for SALE??

LOL Wyo. Did you order those rings yet?

Yep, I already got them installed,Still waiting on my scope

Thanks to a fellow forum member after 30 years I am once again a member of the #1 Fraternity! I just received a very limited edition K1A in 35 Whelen. After handling this rifle I am wondering what took me so long! I had forgotten what I was missing! I have a TC Encore addiction and now this Ruger will have me fighting a duel addiction!!!

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Originally posted by Tim50:
Thanks to a fellow forum member after 30 years I am once again a member of the #1 Fraternity! I just received a very limited edition K1A in 35 Whelen. After handling this rifle I am wondering what took me so long! I had forgotten what I was missing! I have a TC Encore addiction and now this Ruger will have me fighting a duel addiction!!!

Welcome back Tim50. Once you have a “No. 1 fever†you really never recover from it.

Now you have to check out the number one group for Ruger # 1's at:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RUGER-1

S/S

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Originally posted by fla3006:
You can spend alot more for a fine single shot (Hagn, Dakota, Searcy, etc.) but still not get a better looking or stronger rifle. For a bolt gun, make mine a custom Mauser or derivative. For a single shot, I'll take the everyday Ruger.

I see from that comment that you have never actually seen and handled a Martini & Hagn, Gunmakers firearm !!
http://www.martiniandhagngunmakers.com/ourhistory.htm

I have seen several at the Calgary gunshow at various times -lost for words.....

Glenn

Just stumbled on this string, I have 4 25-06 (reworked by Paul Jeager), 7mm STW and 9.3X74R and 450/400. The latter two were listed above as owned by DrLou . I love these guys - the 25-06 has been semi retired as I had Clouse Willing in Germany do some great engraving on it (Speed Goat) and just don't want it banged up. The 9.3 is batting 1000 this fall taking a old whitetail man that is a sweet shooting rifle - thanks Dr Lou. I hope the 450/400 will be the same when she faces ole Jumbo.

mine is a # 1 Tropical chambered in .416 Rigby

I sent two Ruger #1's off for rebarreling. They are .243 Win and .30-06 Sprg. I can't wait to get them back. Other rifles are OK, but there is something special about the #1's.

Ruger # 1-B in:

.223
.257 Roberts
.243, as of just this week.

Not looking for any more (yet??)

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Originally posted by BoCash3:
Ruger # 1-B in:

.223
.257 Roberts
.243, as of just this week.

Not looking for any more (yet??)

Nice start but you need to add a 7mm or a 30 caliber to be well rounded according to this forum.

I'm looking to pick up one at a gunshow for a re-barrel job to .260 Remington and another to re-barrel to a 25 WSM wildcat.

Currently a 1 H Tropical 375 H&H for me and allways looking. Great rifles. R.

A hello to everyone, I am new to this site and after reading both pages and unless I missed it somewhere I would like to add a Ruger # 1 in .300 Weatherby to the list. Bought it some 15 years ago and due to some shoulder problems didn't fire it untill fall of last year. I must say I enjoyed it immensely, took it on a moose hunt (just something different about carrying a single shot) and hope to repeat the trip with the same gun again next year. --- John

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Originally posted by smoke_eater:
i have had 2. a short barrelled 30-06 and a varmiter 22-250. both were accurate, but the 30-06 killed my shoulder, and i just traded the 22-250 for a browning 78 in 45/70.

IF you ever load that .45/70 round to its' potential in that M78, you will really know what a dead shoulder feels like (if you thought that '06 was bad, just wait!)

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Originally posted by Andrew cempa:
I have one #1- a 1-H in 416 rigby.

I use it for deer on up....

I just fired a couple of groups to verify zero wiht my 1.75-4 Bushnell scope- just under an inch at 100, sighted about 1 inch high, then backed off to 200, group was just under 2 inchs, dead even....

I shoot High Power competitively with an M1 in 30-06, so I use my Rigby as a flinch control tool-if I can hold it close and squeeze off a 350 grn 416 Rigby at just under 2600F/S, the 12 lb NMM1 with 168s at 2650 is a toy... .

A few of my hunting buddies question my choice of caliber, but I have yet to fail stopping a charging whitetail.... Just hammers them.

I may pick up a #1 sporter in 30-06-that wouls be a good light game gun-you know, for squirrels and the like...

God Bless

I use a 350-grain cast flatnose gascheck bullet in my .416 Rigby with 112 grains of AA8700. MV is 2100 FPS, and it is quite accurate too. I think that would be a good whitetail load.

I ended up with a couple of .458 tropical rfles - the last one was offered t ome by a dealer at $350 so I just couldn't turn it down. I'm thinking about doing a re-bore or re-barrel to a .500 NE just cause I want one and a friend gave a bunch of brass. I also have bullet mold or two.

Anybody got any ideas making a .500 NE on a No. 1. I saw someone had a .577 NE but the .500 NE is it for now.

There's something about #1s that just capture my imagination like few other guns. The only one curretly in the safe is a 450/400. So far, only about 8 rds have been fired, but the accuracy was better than expected, and the fun factor was high. It wears a NECG peep site, which works well.

I love #1s but only have 1, a 1V in .243 win.

I'd like to add an International in 7x57 and something over .40(not 45-70)

Ohiosam,
get a 450/400 they are a hoot.

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Originally posted by Cliff Lyle:
I'm looking to pick up one at a gunshow for a re-barrel job to .260 Remington and another to re-barrel to a 25 WSM wildcat.

Why?

If you rebarreled to 257 Weatherby you could have more velocity and could shoot factory ammo?

There is no reason to shoot a short magnum in a single shot rifle.

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Originally posted by Stonewall:

quote:

Originally posted by fla3006:
You can spend alot more for a fine single shot (Hagn, Dakota, Searcy, etc.) but still not get a better looking or stronger rifle. For a bolt gun, make mine a custom Mauser or derivative. For a single shot, I'll take the everyday Ruger.

I see from that comment that you have never actually seen and handled a Martini & Hagn, Gunmakers firearm !!
http://www.martiniandhagngunmakers.com/ourhistory.htm

I have seen several at the Calgary gunshow at various times -lost for words.....

Glenn

The two qualifiers he used were better looking and stronger. Not better made, nicer, with cleaner lines, a sense of quality, or finer. He's not implying that a Ruger #1 is a nicer rifle than a Hagn. He is saying that he likes them more, kind of like how I like Redheads, and brunettes more than blondes.

The Number One is just as strong as any custom single shot. If not stronger!

Better looking is in the eye of the beholder. I think that Martini and Hagn are exceptional craftsmen, but I don't like their stock designs. If money were no object I would source a Hagn action and have Steve D Hughes do the stock work. I think the Dakota M10 is a fantastic looking action, but I don't think it works as well as the Hagn does, and it damn sure doesn't work as well as a Ruger does.

I really like the Miller action it is probably the most reliable of all the falling block single shots. However, it's not as pretty as a M10 or a Hagn.

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Originally posted by Die Ou Jagter:
Ohiosam,
get a 450/400 they are a hoot.

Alas! So many guns, so little money

But a 450-400 would be very high on my list.

I have had 3 #1s. A 22-250 that shot extremely tight. 2) A #1 Tropical in .458 that was a pleasure to shoot-I could shoot it all day long. Last but not least another #1-a sporter in 45-70, which with my stupid reloads was not at all fun to shoot. I wish Ruger would offer the Tropical heavy barrel in 45-70. That would help dampen the recoil of 350 grRN @2400fps. I stopped with the "hot" loads when I got the .458.
It was still lots of fun though. May be it is time for me to buy another #1-Tropical-gotta be something big though.

Andy

Now without No 1s Previously had a blast with Tropical in 458. shot no full house loads, but had a blast shooting at woodchucks with 405 gr Rems at about 1800fps. Longest kill was only 186 paces, but that is a darn good shot for gun like this with iron sights.

I'm and off an on fan of the Ruger no.1, I get the bug from time to time..They are certainly and nice trim pretty rifle..I think I would like to have N. 1-S in a 450-400-3" or a .416 Remingon caliber if I could find one at a reasonable price, any takers?......

I am working on a deal on a red pad #1 in .22-250

I had posted above my list of #1 but fell to sinful desires once more and am awaiting the delievery of a reworked 458 into 470 NE.

Now if we could only get Ruger to put a decent express rib with integral mounts and a decent standing/1 or 2 folding rear sight on the 1H series; then it would be about a perfect big game single. The current "rib" and folding rear sight thingy suck.

Still think my #1 416R would do just fine in a DG hunt as well (that's what the PH is for-insurance, right?)

God Bless

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Originally posted by Die Ou Jagter:
I had posted above my list of #1 but fell to sinful desires once more and am awaiting the delievery of a reworked 458 into 470 NE.

A local Ruger collector/seller has a 470 #1 based on a 1-H heavy barrel-it is sweet, with a recessed safety, everything else begn stock. He was asking $2250 if I recall correctly. Nice gun, but my 416 is a better all-around rifle I think.