What happend with all the chamberings for the #1 rifles?
This year, you get for every model, only one chambering.
http://www.ruger.com/products/no1/index.html

Martin

This is better than dropping the entire line of No 1s which others have reported.

It is rather odd, but then so is Ruger.

Love the pictures ..... you'll never see wood like that on any in a store (if any are even made)
Wonder if they'll screw up the twist in the 222 like they did in the Hornet ?
What you're gonna see is all the good rifles becoming "distributor specials" which will make about as much sense as all these silly new cartridges they "invented" with Hornady.
I got my red pads & No 3 30-40, frankly Scarlett......
Just shuda kept my Lyman No 1.

Before you buy a new one, look at an 1885 Browning.

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Before you buy a new one, look at an 1885 Browning.

Great idea. But I bought a used .38-55 Browning High Wall, incidentally my third High Wall, befor a few weeks, for 211.- "bucks". With 80 rounds of Winchester factory ammo. Blueing is 95% OK, the stock have a few hits, but the bore is nearly new.
At the moment, I´m testing some lead bullets with N110. But the barrel is a .375" and so I will test next a few jacketed bullets.

The Ruger #1 is not perfect. I know. But it´s a classic looking breech-block rifle, like the old Farquarsons or other British single shots. And the price isn´t so high. A new Hagn or Heeren costs a few more.
I bought befor three years, I mean, a #1 chambered for the .480Ruger. (The German proof houses don´t know the .475Linebaugh , so the rifle is only "proofed" for the .480Ruger)
It´s not a BR-Rifle, but it holds the "10" at 100m. I like it. And if I have the money, and particularly the room for storage, I would buy a #1 Varmint made for the 6,5 Creedmore.
In Germany prices are down, gun business is down, will be down. But used Ruger rifles, in gun magazins or gun auctions, will bring 50-75% from new prices. The same is with "older" Marlin M1895 rifles. This rifle are all rare here. With used M98 hunting rifle, I can pave my driveway.
At the moment I will not buy a new gun, other things are more important right now, but it would be a shame, if the # 1 no longer would be produced.

Martin, also owning three .45-70 rifles.

As I have never been privileged to sit in on any of Ruger's marketing meetings, I have never understood their sales philosophies.

Back when there used to be a fairly large domestic U.S. market in AC556 fully-auto Ruger carbines, they sold to everyone in the world except Americans and the com-bloc. They wouldn't even sell any of the springs, let alone any other part for that rifle, to us U.S. citizens who legally owned the AC-556s. I could understand not selling to the com-bloc...;that was illegal under U.S. federal law. But for Ruger to treat us Americans the same way was always beyond my ken.

Anyway, I AM glad they are continuing the No. 1 rifle, and I sort of like the chamberings they HAVE elected to turn out in 2013; the .222 Remington, 6.5x284, 7x57, .45-70, and .375 H&H. Those actions and the different extractors in them can be used as donors for a great many different cartridges, whether classic, current, or wildcat.

My guess, and it is only a guess, is that they are trying to jack up enough interest in the rifles to cause people to pay the well over $1,000 retail price Ruger is now asking folks to pay for them.

So decreasing the chamberings available, and not vocally denying the convenient rumour they re going to quiit making them at all may accomnplish that.

I don't think it will, but it may.

In the meantime I am going to hang on to all the ones I have, and when I see a true bargain in any chambering of a used No. 1, I will buy it as a potential donor for future conversion fun.

Bill Ruger was a man of principle, and a man who attempted to make as fine a product given the parameters of their manufacuring processes as he could.

The new management focuses only on profit.

The Ruger #1 would still excell at much higher asking prices if:

1) The wood was exceptional instead of un-noticeable.

2) Case color hardening was added to the action and accentuating parts.

3) The safety and triggers were updated to make them premium rifle quality.

4) Classic calibers were rotated each year and twists were selected to offer as wide a variety of bullets as possible, focusing on the heavier side of bullet weight.

5) And these rifles were promoted as classics.

Ruger management has fallen so low, I'm not sure they can make a comeback in a market that will demand quality and function at a fair price.

The 1885 Browning has been made in weird chamberings which I never understood.
I'll keep my 45-70 and have added a Lone Star Rifle Rem RB reproduction in 45-70 .Now they've both taken deer .

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Wonder if they'll screw up the twist in the 222 like they did in the Hornet ?

Ruger says the twist for the 222 is 1 in 9". Seems pretty fast, but I doubt it will hurt anything. Some might say it's too fast, but the over stabilization concept is hogwash to me.

Probably just me but I don't understand some of those caliber choices at all......

From what I've been reading about Ruger production in the last while, it may be that they are concentrating on filling orders for other products, to try to get caught up. They completely stopped taking orders for a little while, a few months back as I understand it.

I have a feeling that it is a clerical error on the website, or they are unsure of what they are doing in 2013.

Their website states that these chamberings will be made for 2013 only, and that each configuration will have a new chambering for 2014.