i just wish i knew who made this piece. obvious that he knew what he was doing. the last picture of the trapodoor butplate you notice the 2nd hole is put into a plug that covers the thrubolt for attaching the stock. right at the moment it has a ruger 243 barrel on it which is going to be changed to a octagonal one in 300 H&H. that is if i can convince kobe to use some tape on his pipewrenches anybody got an idea of where the doubleset triggers w/side safety came from??

Nice piece!!!!!Me,I would leave it a 243.

Beautiful rifle! You can send Kobe all the work you want as long as it doesn't jump in front of mine.
Butch

I've had a semi-custom #1 built and am planning another full custom. I can tell you for certain that the side safety and double triggers are full custom. I have not seen them done by any of the american #1 specialist that I have researched. VERY nice rifle.

That's very nice, where did you find it?

Very nice. Does it have any non Ruger markings on it? It reminds me of the Heym Rugers I've seen.

cheers,
- stu

hi butchloc,

now that is the kind of no1 i like , please can you tell me who`s is the trigger unit.

regards
chris

to answer some questions - it followed me home & I'm sticking to that story for the wifemate. unofficially i was flipping around on gunbroker & saw it on the last hour of the auction, the thing had no bids so it followed me home. it is a done over ruger not heym & I have no idea of the triggers. all i can tell you is that i have to adjust the set. it trips at less than 1 oz. the action has been thoroughly gone over honed and smoother. workmanship is 1st class, the action appears to have been case hardened because you can see some color changes in the sunlight, but very few. the checkering is 28lpi, makes my eye pop out looking at it leave along doing it.only thing i can't figure out is the stock ruger barrel. just cries to have an octagonal or half octagonal screwed on. really is the nicest #1 i've ever run into and it followed me home - honest

Wow, all that work and still left with a stock barrel. Half octogon, half round, with a little engraving on the new 300 barrel would get my vote!
Nice Rifle!!!

Enjoy

Nice score on Gunbroker. I wish I would have seen it! Looks pretty Germanic, maybe there is some sort of maker's marking under the forearm.

butch

"AP" on the buttplate? Is there a signature in the engraving somewhere?

Was Wilber Hauck around to do any Rugers over. Really looks like his triggers.


Rich

Did a search:

Hauck

i haven't found a signature yet, perhaps when it comes apart, sure hope so, the triggers do look much the same as the hauck. i haven't seen anything else like it before. thanks for the research

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Originally posted by richj:
butch

"AP" on the buttplate?

Rich

For Butch's sake, I hope so!! That would be a real treasure. I thought I'd seen that style before, and you're right, it does look a lot like old Gus (August) Pachmayr's work...and he hand-made a lot of double-set triggers and trap-buttplates too, from what I recall. His triggers were considered some of the best ever made. He also had a large supply of wood around and was no slouch of a gun-maker/engraver either. Still, the gun looks hot blued from the pics, and I'm not sure Gus would have approved of or ever done that.

Only thing is...was he even still alive when the Ruger No. 1 came out? I can't recall for the life of me. I was to his son's shop several times in the early-'50s (on Grand Ave. in downtown LA) but then got a number of years of paid "tours" much further west courtesy the U.S. Army, so lost track....


Edited to add:

Can't find August's obituary,but am pretty sure he was already gone well before the Ruger No. 1 came out. His son, Frank A. Pachmayr, was the one who started the Pachmayr's on Grand Avenue in L.A.; the one which made the pachmayr grips famous, and which at one time had 50-75,000 fagulous pieces of walnut in stock.

He could also well have made the rifle, as I know he was alive until at least 1973, from this article in Rifle Magazine
http://www.riflemagazine.com/m.../PDF/ri66partial.pdf

Frank was trained by his dad, and later became pretty much reknowned as the premier U.S. gunsmith for about 50 years. I don't think he ever signed his work A.P., but stranger things could have happened....he also could have re-used a part made by dad.

This is a real mystery, but I'd almost swear that is classical Pachmayr engraving as my befuddled old mind recalls it....will continue searching tomorrow.

Wayne Schwartz in Michigan converted several #1's to DST's using IIRC T/C triggers for Schuetzen rifles a number of years ago.

Rich

What a nice looking rifle. I wouldn't change it until or unless I knew it's full history. Supposed you did change it to a bigger caliber, are you going to bore the holes behind the butt plate to a larger diameter too?

I say leave it alone and thank your lucky stars that it followed you home.