I'm sure he removed the forend hangar and spring loaded ejector to fit that forend the way it is, the pic of what he did is at the bottom of the Ruger No. 1 page,
http://www.rjrenner.com/ruger-no.1.html. I suspect he used the lessons and techniques learned creating that St. Hubertus tribute rifle and applied them to a standard No. 1 to come up with this Ultra-Light rifle.
Roger understands and does "slender" like no one else I've ever worked with. He took a couple of oversized clubs another stockmaker had made and turned them into beautifully handling rifles. You can see the cheekpiece he pulled out of a Ruger factory stock for my .250 Savage here
http://www.rjrenner.com/options.html although that pic is of a right handed rifle and mine's left handed - the magic of the internet!
He definitely builds for a niche market. The big deals these days are tactical and long range stuff but he likes the ideal of stalking as close as possible and his rifles and the calibers chosen reflect that.
