Well I finished my Ruger No.1 Project and am super excited about it. Here is some history about it. The gun was in a fire about 15 years ago and in 2007 my grandfather gave it to my dad and my dad gave it to me for Christmas as a father/son project to fix and rebuild. We sent it off to have it inspected and cleaned up a bit. (Wish I had a picture of it before it was refinished and all =()
Once we verified that it was good to go as far as safety and all we started our rebuilding. In 2008 we had it refinished by a company called Black T coatings and am impressed beyond words for there product! Once we got it back from them, we found a used factory wood stock from ebay and threw it on there temporarily. Fast forward 2 years and I moved to TX and had graduated College and my dad gave me the gun to finish. I started reloading for it and ran into the regular No. 1 problems with accuracy. Could really get it to shoot below about 1.5" groups because of horizontal stringing. I decided to put in an oder for a Bell & Carlson stock and after about 8 weeks of waiting, it arrived. I put it on and had to do some fitting to the for-end because it contacting the firing pin spring and wouldn't allow it to fire. After cleaning it up and bedded a 1" block at the tip of the for-end because the No.1's were designed to shoot with about 7lbs of for-end pressure but I needed it to be consistant and repeatable. After about another 9 months of saving an waiting, I put a Zeiss conquest 6.5-20x50mm on her and got rid of the Burris Fulfield II (Which was great but not up to par with the amount of work I put into this thing). I finished my testing and reloading and got it down to .466" group and am loving the set up with 90gr Nosler Bt's and 42.0gr of IMR 4350. Here are some pictures of it completed. This is definitely one that I will never be getting rid of! Lots of sweat and anger put into this one! Thanks for reading!
Once we verified that it was good to go as far as safety and all we started our rebuilding. In 2008 we had it refinished by a company called Black T coatings and am impressed beyond words for there product! Once we got it back from them, we found a used factory wood stock from ebay and threw it on there temporarily. Fast forward 2 years and I moved to TX and had graduated College and my dad gave me the gun to finish. I started reloading for it and ran into the regular No. 1 problems with accuracy. Could really get it to shoot below about 1.5" groups because of horizontal stringing. I decided to put in an oder for a Bell & Carlson stock and after about 8 weeks of waiting, it arrived. I put it on and had to do some fitting to the for-end because it contacting the firing pin spring and wouldn't allow it to fire. After cleaning it up and bedded a 1" block at the tip of the for-end because the No.1's were designed to shoot with about 7lbs of for-end pressure but I needed it to be consistant and repeatable. After about another 9 months of saving an waiting, I put a Zeiss conquest 6.5-20x50mm on her and got rid of the Burris Fulfield II (Which was great but not up to par with the amount of work I put into this thing). I finished my testing and reloading and got it down to .466" group and am loving the set up with 90gr Nosler Bt's and 42.0gr of IMR 4350. Here are some pictures of it completed. This is definitely one that I will never be getting rid of! Lots of sweat and anger put into this one! Thanks for reading!
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