The first rifle I have any independent recollection of having any desire to own was the Ruger No.1 Single Shot. As a little boy, I used to drool over advertisements for them in my father's American Rifleman magazines. I wanted the No.1-B and I wanted it in .30-'06.
I had to wait until I was 22 to fully realize the dream, but it was a "good 'un" from the get-go, shooting down to .770" or so from new and it'll still do it, 28 years later.
