moondog911

Greetings,

Have you priced the Browning, Winchester, or any other quality single shot lately???

moondog911

Metlhed57

I have 11 of them and they all shoot MOD(minute of deer) or better. A couple that I roll my own for shoot much better, 5 shots you can cover with a nickel@100yds. Don't think they have accuracy problems. Some I know just don't outright like what they are fed but fed properly settle out. I have a .17HMR that's the same way. 5 shots in a beer cap @125yds when fed right.

Ruger 1 Guy

And unlike the Browning and Winchester I bet all 11 of them were made in the good old U. S. of A.
Ruger # 1 Guy

Metlhed57

That would be correct, made by working Americans

Ruger 1 Guy

It'a always best to buy American when you can, someday the job you save may be your own. I do realize that for some it's price thing but when it comes to my SS rifles, well for me it's like waving a flag on the 4th. of July that was made in china, I am not going to do that.
Ruger # ! Guy

Larry from MT

#1s are awfully pretty but I'll never own another one. I had a 1B in .223 that exhibited all of the common #1 problems.

At the time (early 90s) there were actually gunsmith ads in shooting magazines that specifically mentioned fixing the #1's accuracy/bedding/stability problems.

I sent mine to one of the better known smiths who could reportedly do wonders, but it was still unacceptable to me after his voodoo.

I've known many shooters who swore by their #1s --- funny how most of them don't own them anymore.

Ruger 1 Guy

Hi Larry from MT,
As a shooter just how much accuracy did you expect out of a rifle like the # 1 ?.
Ruger # 1 Guy

James6591

I have always been under the impression that accuracy (along with their looks) was great with #1's.
I've just picked one up for that reason.

PowPow

I have late model 1-V and !-RSI, and they fit my idea of accurate.
Best groups were .157" (twice) on the 22-250 v and .40" on a 30-06 rsi.

u250680

As I'm not an owner and have no experience with them, for the price of a no. 1 I would hope accuracy to be .5" @100 yds from benchrest, using optics by an average shooter. Can an out of the box No. 1 obtain this without any additional mods, e.g. washers, screws, bedding, taking off barrel bands etc.?

Gunluvr

Because they are awesome to shoot and very accurate, out of the box. Today I stalked and shot a deer for the freezer with one in 45-70, it was a good feeling as I'm normally up in a treestand looking down. I find that as I get older I appreciate the old school simplicity of stalking deer and getting off one shot to put him down. The hard part comes after he's down.

Larry from MT

It never was better than about an inch (5 shot group @ 100 yards) but that wasn't the worst of it. It was so unstable that groups might be 3" apart on different days. Or if you didn't rest the forearm EXACTLY on the same spot every time groups might OPEN to 2-3".

As I said, I had all the forearm work done --- at high expense. It still wasn't dependable.

In those days #1s were very popular. I'd often meet someone at our range who had a "very accurate" #1. However, somehow the shot-up targets never reflected that. There was an exception. A gunsmith buddy (in desperation) put a non-taper barrel on a .223 that must have been 2" in diameter and glassed the forearm solid to it. It weighed about 13 lbs. That one seemed pretty stable.

When someone brags on their #1 ---- Ask to see three, five shot 100 yard groups.

Ruger 1 Guy

Well Larry from MT,
It seems that those days are gone, the Ruger # 1 is what it is, it's not a Bolt Action and wont shoot like one. But it will out shoot most any of the other Traditional Single Shot rifles that have a two piece stock, bar none.

The experience that PowPow has with his 1-V and RSI is about the same that other shooters have had. Notice I said "shooters", from what I've seen at the ranges I shoot at, I believe that the average hunter will never shoot a 1/2 inch 5 shot group, and they really dont have to for hunting.

In fact most average shooters may not shoot that good consistently.

But if your really into shooting Traditional Single Shot rifles that have a two piece stocks such as the Winchester Hi-Walls, Browning Hi-Walls, Stevens Falling Block, Dakota M-10 etc., you can pay more for any of theses but it would be very hard to improve upon the # 1. I know a lot of shooters that can and do with repeatability shoot under 1/2 inch 5 shot groups in actual matches with there # 1's and some are factory guns with nothing more that some trigger and hammer work.
Ruger # 1 Guy

PowPow

Not a BR guy. I would expect those guys to do all the time what I did a few times.
Accuracy, for my purposes, should be defined as one shot on a Saturday morning going in the about the same place as the shot from last Saturday. That would be two successful hunts. I've gone to the range, shot one shot, and put it up satisfied.
I may take the idea of "single shot" a bit to the extreme.

PowPow

Not a BR guy. I would expect those guys to do all the time what I did a few times.
Accuracy, for my purposes, should be defined as one shot on a Saturday morning going in the about the same place as the shot from last Saturday. That would be two successful hunts. I've gone to the range, shot one shot, and put it up satisfied.
I may take the idea of single shot a bit to the extreme.