ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRG!

So my local guy has a nice, used Ruger #1a on the shelf. It's tight and has the black recoil pad. I'm not sure on the age (will likely pull the serial number and post it on Ruger's site to find out how old it is...)

I'm pretty much in love with the idea of a No. 1 in 7x57. This one comes with a BSA Scope (oooh, high quality there...).

Asking price is $800 which seems just a tad high to me. Any thoughts? Should I pull the trigger?

(Err, this isn't really a NEED question... . More like a BIG want!)

Be very very careful buying a Ruger single shot particularly in calibre 7x57
You will find yourself wanting to buy another one to go with it or worse, find yourself inexplicably going to the Blaser web page and drooling over the K95.
Great rifle, great calibre, BUY IT.

It's a hard one to find ..... better buy it.

send me the phone number!
This is hard to find and I will buy it if you don't.
lol

I have a #1 RSI (Mannlicher style, short barrel, maybe 18.5"). I dearly love this rifle, and use it for whitetails in the bottom lands of SW MT. It points like a shotgun, and is so short you can carry it by the wrist and the muzzle doesn't reach the ground. Very handy when hands-and-kneeing it through the brush. It wears a Leupie 1 x 4.

In short, buy the #1A, unless you can find a RSI.

Like Brice I too have a Ruger #1 Mannlicher in 7x57. What a pleasure to shoot and carry. It's a whitetail slayer and perfect gun for my son or wife if they decide to come along. Last year i carried it as I was along to watch. I got the opportunity to take an eight pointer and it did the job well. My wife and son both love it's weight and feel.
Don't think about it buy it.

Yep,another #1 Mannlicher here too. Very accurate and great to carry in the woods in WI. If the gun is used, I think $800 is a tad on the high side as Gunbroker has new ones for around that price.

Well the Number One "A" is not the one with the Mannlicher Stock. The one with the Mannlicher stock is called the RSI.
Any #1 in 7x57 is a hard one to find. The gun and cartridge go together like sex with a hot woman.
In my neck of the woods, a clean #1A would go for just about what they're asking for where you found yours. I saw one a while back without scope and the price was $750. best I could get him down to was $725. I'm still kicking myself for passing on that one. You said a black recoik pad, so that one is I believe new enough to have a barrel made by Ruger rather than one with a contract barrel. The trigger will be non-adjustable but the ones I've looked were not too bad. Considering that the one you're looking at also has a scope mounted, I think I'd be all over that one like stink on poop. But then again, Ruger #1s are my favortie rifles.
Paul B.

Oh Hell, it's only money, right? I'll be putting my layaway deposit down tommorow.

I'm sure glad I have a forgiving wife!

BTW, to confirm, yes, the one I'm talking about is the No. 1A. Not the RSI...I've handled those and they are just plain tiny! In a good way, of course!

quote:

Originally posted by Grenadier:
rnovi,

Be sure to order a lot of lead free bullets for your new gun. We don't want to hear that you added to condor lead poisoning.

Awww Man! I was gonna do a Full "bird in flight" mount on one of them!

(PS: For those who don't know, Cali has passed a bill that bans the use of bullets with any lead in them anywhere in the Condor range. Having said that, it ONLY applies to rifles and rifle hunting and not to shotguns or bird hunting...How lovely.

PPS: Yes, the Condor is an protected species. It's illegal to hit one with your car even if the bird flew into YOU.)

Wonderful rifle....buy it before I get shot but the wife for doing exactly that!

I have a standard No 1 in 7x57. It shot so-so until I purchased a hicks accurizer from EAB. Went from a 1.5" group to a 0.62" group with 175 grain Hornady round nose bullets with a hair over 50 grains of RL-22. It's a machine. Love that rifle. Fixed Leupold 6x with a German #4 reticle. I stick witht the heavy bullets in this round just because. 3" difference between 100 and 200 yard zero, I can live with it. Plows deer.

So I went back and took a good, hard look at the #1a and you know what? It just wasn't the rifle I thought it was. There were several stock scratches I hadn't noticed before and it was just slightly shabby looking.

I turned over the price tag - $900??? Wha??? It was $900 now.

Now I don't mind paying a fair rate for a rifle, but that's just plain robbery. Even if it was brand new I don't think I'd be wanting to pay $900 for it!

No, quite frankly this was a shop that was trying to take advantage of it's patronage. I probably could have negotiated a better rate, but I just couldn't be bothered. At that point, IMO, they can keep it.

I guess I'll keep looking!