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Wow! That had to be an anomaly, right?
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Only 292 made?
I guess I walked into a decent rifle at a pretty good price. I paid $900 out the door.
Blessings,
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What scope is that on yours?
Thanks.
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Leupold 3.5-10 with my reticle.
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Only 292 made?
I guess I walked into a decent rifle at a pretty good price. I paid $900 out the door.
Blessings,
Steve
Where do you guys find these deals?! Around here everybody wants $1100 and up for run of the mill #1's. Oh well, cabelas is trying for $1699.00 for a K1A 250 savage, I want one badly, but not that badly. Very nice rifle there.
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Looking forward to the range report. Well, I'm glad I had witnesses (cause my buddies wouldn't have believed it otherwise), and I'm glad no one offered me a Kimber... The fellow I bought it from have me two partial boxes of Hornady super performance shells. I shot 5 3-shot, 100yd groups. One was about 1.75", with a called flyer. Two were right around an inch. Then, these two babies, 0.34" & 0.25" ![[Linked Image]](http://i1316.photobucket.com/albums/t604/jstamper1979/Mobile%20Uploads/image_zpsirifwtrt.jpg) I think that's both awfully lucky, and about as good as I can hold with a 9x scope. I'm interested to see what hand loads seated out near the lands do, that always made a big improvement in my other No. 1's. It was very pleasant to shoot, after getting used to the .300 win mag. I think the round count must be higher than I originally supposed; I assumed the two partial boxes were it, but I took the forearm off and it turns out someone has glass bedded it. Surely they wouldn't have done that and not shot it. The previous owner said the rifle was good for about an inch with factory ammo, I think this wasn't an exaggeration for once.
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someone must like plain wood 
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Only 292 made?
I guess I walked into a decent rifle at a pretty good price. I paid $900 out the door.
Blessings,
Steve
Where do you guys find these deals?! Around here everybody wants $1100 and up for run of the mill #1's. Oh well, cabelas is trying for $1699.00 for a K1A 250 savage, I want one badly, but not that badly. Very nice rifle there. ruger, No big magic here. I was just looking for a Ruger Number One in .30-30 and all of those owned by El Number Uno had plain wood. He was great to work with, but at close to 1K I didn't want wood that was uber-plain. So, I looked locally and could not find a .30-30, but a local dealer, Bud's Guns in Gresham, OR, had a .257 Roberts in stainless. The price was something like $875, plus the state paperwork ... Oregon has no sales tax, so I was a little under $900 out the door. I'd still rather have one of the incredible Circasian walnut-stocked .30-30s, but I'm darned happy with my .257 Roberts in stainless steel. Haven't fired it yet, but at my age sometimes just looking at something and drooling over it is worth the price. Blessings, Steve
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I like Kimbers pretty well, but you can buy them all day. That .257 is very special and you'll likely never find another one, especially one that looks that good. And now you also know that it shoots.
Put those silly Kimber notions out of your head, lest you end up posting to the "Seller's Remorse" thread.
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Put those silly Kimber notions out of your head, lest you end up posting to the "Seller's Remorse" thread.
I should already be on that thread, with a tack-driving K1-B in 7mm STW. I dodged a bullet this time; the Bob is going nowhere, barring seriously hard times.
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Looking forward to the range report. Well, I'm glad I had witnesses (cause my buddies wouldn't have believed it otherwise), and I'm glad no one offered me a Kimber... The fellow I bought it from have me two partial boxes of Hornady super performance shells. I shot 5 3-shot, 100yd groups. One was about 1.75", with a called flyer. Two were right around an inch. Then, these two babies, 0.34" & 0.25" I think that's both awfully lucky, and about as good as I can hold with a 9x scope. I'm interested to see what hand loads seated out near the lands do, that always made a big improvement in my other No. 1's. It was very pleasant to shoot, after getting used to the .300 win mag. I think the round count must be higher than I originally supposed; I assumed the two partial boxes were it, but I took the forearm off and it turns out someone has glass bedded it. Surely they wouldn't have done that and not shot it. The previous owner said the rifle was good for about an inch with factory ammo, I think this wasn't an exaggeration for once. Good for you. Looks like you have real winner there.
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Only 292 made?
I guess I walked into a decent rifle at a pretty good price. I paid $900 out the door.
Blessings,
Steve
Lipseys says only 253 in the original issue made, 29 of them later in a 'clean up' run by Ruger a few years after the original issue, Keep that little critter as long as you can. Link to Lipsey's write-up on your rifle: http://www.lipseysguns.com/post/Ruger-Number-1A-Stainless-Light-Sporter-257-Roberts.aspx
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Joe,
Thank you for that addition. It's a fascinating little rifle.
Steve
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