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Cheers...
Con

Con,

Some Aussie covetousness appear to be going on here. You know what you have to do.

Now get on with it. Buy that #-1 300 H&H. You will have a lifetime to enjoy it, and a lifetime of regret if you do not.

Hope this helps!!

Steve

Steve,
Working on it! But if Ruger turns around and does an uncatalogued run of 450 x 3 1/4" then I'll be seriously torn! Also considering perhaps grabbing a 416Ruger 1H and rechambering to 500/416 because my passion are the big bores. I'd also like to find a donor action to add a 28" barrel chambered to 378Wby. Either way ... I'm selling rifles to fund Ruger No1s because the bug has bit.
Cheers...
Con

Well after getting my permit to Aquire sorted out with Firearms Registry then being away with work for a couple of weeks I FINALLY went in yesterday and picked up and took home my 1S in .300H&H Magnum.
Not that I can use it yet as I am still waiting for brass to arrive from the US. What are you blokes doing over there, stockpiling the world supply of .300 brass? Please just let 50cases go please!
Oh well its to cold out in my shipping container/gun room to be doing any loading at the moment.

David

I got mine a couple of weeks ago. I mounted a VariX-III on it but haven't got to shoot it yet. I have a few hundred rounds of brass to get loaded and find a load it likes. I sure hope it likes the same recipe as my other one.

My #1 300H&H was brought to Montana for a bear hunt. Never even saw a bear until that last hour of the last day. At that was at a lasered 900 yds, and the bears were two sows, each with two cubs.

But my rifle shot really well, about one and a half inches and 3 shot groups at 200 yds with a 180grAB.

Love the rifle. It deserved better than I produced for it.

Glad to hear you guys have gotten yours. It did not occur to me that the brass would be so hard for you to obtain. Hope you get it soon.

Steve

I'm still waiting !!! supposed to be this month!!
You lucky guys!!

I purchased a No. 1 in 300 H & H, and just picked it up Sunday. It is one of the "Kudu" 300's. It will be a little while before I get a chance to fire it. I hope it shoots as well as the results which have been posted in this topic. In the Remington 700, I load IMR 4350 and a 190 grain bullet. It is the best load I have found up to this point. If anyone would like to share some pet loads I would appreciate the information. Thank You Robert

I haven't played with the No 1 yet but in my old 721 Remington the Federal Premium 180 grain Partition will just make 1 ragged hole at 100 yards. We will see how they do in the new No 1. It ALMOST makes me feel bad that I have 300-400 rounds of brass and a few of you guys can't find any.

I don't feel to bad. I think I have about 600 pieces of brass. What powder and number of grains are you loading with the 180's?. I would love to get to where I could get, and hold some .75 groups.

The load that worked for me was 67.0 of Ramshot Hunter with a 180 AccuBond and a 215M primer in Norma brass.

Got 1.5 inch +/- three shot groups at 200 yds on a pretty regular basis.

The rifle shoots!

Steve

For the sake of full disclosure,I got the above load courtesy of Mule Deer.

Steve

I ordered some Hornady 220 gr. RN for my elk hunting trip to Oregon.Shot's will be under a 100 yards.

I finally got a chance to put a few rounds through mine over the weekend and I have to admit that I was SHOCKED at the recoil. Far more than my 721 and worse than the 375 by far. On the up side it did shoot one big ragged hole though. How is the recoil on other peoples?

I didn't think the recoil was that bad.They make pre fit recoil pads.

160user,

One of the problems with the Ruger No. 1 is that the stock is actually designed for iron-sight rather than scope use. There's enough drop to the buttstock so that the rifle tends to come up in recoil more than with most modern bolt-actions, which tend to have straighter buttstocks.

I used to hunt quite a bit with a No. 1 .375 H&H, using either a scope or an NECG peep sight. Despite the rifle weighing almost a pound less with the peep sight (aboyt 8-1/4 pounds) felt recoil was noticeably less, even with 300-grain handloads at 2600 fps. This was because the rifle didn't rare up as much and bite me in the face.

MD

I could be wrong -- God knows there is ample precedent-- but Ruger #1 buttstocks always struck me as a compromise between pure iron-sighted and scoped designs.

They came into being well after the dawning of the scoped use era and have never been re-engineered to accomodate that 'new' gadget, so I tend to think the compromise more or less worked.

The #1 butt stocks are fairly straight-combed unlike the European 'hogback' and early US military stocks in iron sighted railfes which had butts slanted upward toward level with receivers. (I found these latter designs in the 03 Springield and CZs to be most punishing on my cheek and face and on my shoulder which got an unevenly heavy shot at the top of butt stock.)

By contrast, the high cheek piece desings, which even slanted downward towards the receiver in some estreme cases, were definitely meant for scope-only use. They gave a much higher sight plane than Ruger #1s and were not much good with irons.

But the Ruger #1s, in my short-necked use, work fine with low to medium mounted scopes, and the straight back recoil pattern does not punish me overmuch. (I rarely use the irons on my #1s and have even removed many of them to accomodate scopes.)

My .375 Ruger #1 is relatively light and this IMO accounts for the harsh 'felt recoil' at reference here. I tamed mine with a Decelerator pad and now have no problem shooting a box of ammo through it at the range. (That is about all the fun I want with it though.) I have had no field use with it but then the small deer around here never seemed likely candidates for it. And the Kodiac bear trip is farther off and slipping away faster than when I bought it.

Regards,
1B

160user,

The recoil in my Ruger #1 in 300 H&H is fairly moderate, and I'm pretty recoil sensitive.(See the load I used in my post above) I did add a Pachmayr recoil pad to increase the LOP, so that may have made the difference.

In addition, it has been my experience that the better a rifle shoots, the less the recoil bothers me.

YMMV

Steve

Being 6'2" I knew you would have to add a newer pad to the buttstock.

Doc

Doc,
In general, I like a longer LOP. At my tallest, I was 6'1". Now, after the weight of 70 years, I'm 6' even.

Stay tuned to the next Grill and Chill, which will be sometime this summer. Hope you can make it.

Steve