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Steve, Please let me know when you get your 300 H&H. This Sunday, I'll be going to the range and help my buddy Dave put a 4x Leupold on his 300 H&H[the one I told you about] and sight that bad boy in! Untill I get squared away, this will have to do. I will give a range report. Tom

Tom,


Will do.

I'll be putting a Leupold FX-3 6X42 with LR Duplex on mine. The rifle should arrive around the end of the week and then I have to load for it.

I think I would enjoy mine a lot more if you got one too. Hope it works out for you soon.

A range report from you would be much appreciated.

Steve

My hats off to you fellows who had the persistence, patience,
luck or whatever to get one... Back around Christmas, I had the
dough saved up and a major burning desire for a 300 H&H No.1,
but could not find one to save my life. Don't think I have ever
lusted after a particular rifle so badly in my life, and that is
pretty bad. I'm talking, wake up in the middle of the night
thinking about it. Ended up getting kinda soured by the whole
experience and buying a 9,3 x74R. After calming down,
I still greatly admire the 300, but perhaps this was providence -
I'm pretty sure I would have NEVER ventured off into a 9,3
if not "provoked" ha ha - and it has become a instant favorite
of mine. Maybe another day.

Jeff,

If it weren't for the some guys here at the Fire, I never would have found the rifle I'm getting.(See my prior posts). I go to the SHOT pretty regularly, and have gotten to know a fair number of dealers and suppliers. I did the rounds of them, and none of them could come up with the rifle I want. But the Fire guys did.

Hope you enjoy your new rifle, and the #1 could still be in your future.

Steve

Chuck Boggs came through for me in 1997 when I was looking for a .257 Roberts. I'd recommend him in a heartbeat, too.

Steve - yes, it looks like this is the place to be for a
guy with a No.1 addiction, especially in classic calibers Hope you get lots of enjoyment out of yours
also. Never can tell, if it's meant to be I might luck into
one of the 300's someday - or a 6mm Rem 1V, or a ????
I like them ALL

Jeff,
I'm a fan of #1s. Already have a #1-AB in 7x57, 1V 6mm, 1B in 257 Bob , a 38-55 and one in 22Hornet. I'm left handed, so they work well for me.

Welcome to the Fire. Lot of good info and people here.

Steve

Thank you. Sure wish I'd have known about this spot earlier!
Sounds like you appreciate the "little different"
calibers too. So far I've only got a 1A in 270 and the 1S - but
my bolt actions are definitely feeling lonely.
When (and if) I come into any more mad money, I'm gonna try to
be patient and wait for the right moment to pick up another
unique one.

Oh - thought I'd share this too. My "want" for "the" 300 in
a Ruger has been simmering since back somewhere in the early
nineties when I was in a local gun shop to pick up a box of
300 Win mag and saw two boxes of 300 H&H sitting up on the
shelf. If I remember correctly, they were the black-box Winchester
"Supremes" with nickle-plated cases.
I asked to look at them, and they were just SO SEXY...
I asked if they were special order for someone, and the fellow
looked kind of sheepish and said "I ordered the wrong thing"
I forget the whole story, but it was either impossible or not
worthwhile monetarily to send them back - I haven't been down
there in years, but wonder if they're still sitting there? Anyway, as I was sitting there mesmerized by
them, and realizing they wouldn't fit in any of my standard
length actioned rifles, it occured to me what a perfect fit
they would be in a No.1

Steve, even tho at present I can't get my 300H&H, this thread has grown about that damn rifle like I couldn't even imagine. Really says something about the rifle/cartridge,ya know. Can't wait for Dave to pull the trigger! Stay tuned! Tom

Jeff,

With your encounter with the 300 H&H ammo, it is clear that you are destined to own a 300H&H rifle. Just a matter of time.


tom,

Good rifle, good cartridge, and great posters have us into three pages.

Good times!

Steve

Just picked up my new #1-S in 300 H&H. Here are some observations.

Weight is 8lb on the button.

Wood is fairly decent and I'm pleased with it.

Trigger is very good, and I may not have to improve it.

The scope rings that came with it are too high, and place the scope too far above the receiver. Just called Ruger and they are sending lower rings.

Will post pics when I get the scope mounted, and I can get Pugs to do the electronic and computer stuff.

And I would surely buy another rifle from Chuck Boggs again. See phone # in prior post.

Steve

Steve,

Are the test loads loaded yet?

Dco

Doc,

Not yet. Will probably start that tomorrow if the weather is crummy, which it is forecast to be.

Lotta fun(if it shoots).

Steve

Steve,

You may regret the lower rings... I've found it hard to load the rifle with low rings. I put high rings on all my #1's and just learned to shoot them like the Europeans with my head erect.

It's a trade-off that I'm willing to give up for the ease of reloading. YMMV

Edw

I guess mileages do vary a lot because I find, with my stumpy neck, that, to get any kind of decently consistent cheek weld on my #1s, the scope has to be as low as possible and still clear the quarter rib. (The cheap-o factory issue rear sights on the As and Ss are no problem as I remove them. They are unuseable for me anyway as they are hard to adjust and disappear altogether in dim light.)

High rings get me stretching off the stock and this unsettles my sight picture through the scope and impedes repeatable POIs.

The only problem I have in reloading is with heavy gloves and that would be true with high mounts too. Hell, just getting to a single round with serious cold weather gloves is a chore.

1B

Edw,

The #-1s that I have all have low scopes, and they seem to work well for me. And I need that cheek- to- stock weld to shoot anywhere near decently.

I've never had to load one quickly. I guess my approach has been to make sure the first shot is done right, and I won't have to hurry a second shot. If it shoots, I'll be using the new #-1 for black bear this spring. And since I carry cold, I'll be practicing to improve my loading skills. This will be my first time hunting bear with a #-1. My previous bear kills were with bolt action 35Whelens and 338-06's.

I have found that when loading a #-1, if I point the muzzle toward the ground, I can drop the cartridge in pretty easily.

Anyway, that's my plan, and thanks for your advice. It is appreciated.

Steve

1b,

Hadn't remembered your stumpy neck until you just mentioned it.(grins)

Hope all is well.

Steve

Hey Steve,

Congrats on your new rifle!

I posted elsewhere on the board that the oldest son picked up a nice 1-S weekend before last. Took it home and fired 5 rounds of factory out of it. Shot great! The wrist then developed a little split about 1/2 way up the tang on the right side. Needless to say it went straight back to Ruger. Looked to me like a bad place in the grain.

BN

BN,

Thanks, and that sure does suck that your son's #-1 had a stock split. I hope that Ruger makes up for it by replacing it with terrific wood.

Steve

I bet they do! The've been good in the past. Kinda off subject, but I wanted to share this story with all.

Years ago before I went back to work for the state, I worked at the same gunshop I work at parttime now. I was still in the USMCR then and in those days retired USMC General Vernon Magee who lived here (an old "China" Marine who was the asst commandant in like 1956)came in on a regular basis. He was real good friends with Bill Ruger. Ruger used to send him really cool guns thru our shop. I remember the coolest rifle he sent to him about 1981 or so. It was like a cross btwn the #1-A, but heavier like a #1-B and with open sights. Caliber was .32 S&W Long!

BN