I like the way a 1-S handles....it's more rifle-like than he 1-A. To me, the 1-A tends to feel butt heavy. I really would like to pick one up, but after examining two in two different gun shops, I came away thinking that no one at Ruger much cares anymore.
The wood was awful. I have seen better grain on a cardboard box. Most troubling though were the safeties. On the first one I looked at, the safety was so so stiff that I think it would take the skin off your thumb. On the second one, the safety was so loose that it snapped off at the slightest touch.... not at all a safe condition.
I am seriously considering re-barreling an early red pad 45-70 to either 30-06 or possibly 280...just to get the longer barrel and have the nice wood.
