Other factors favoring black pad #1s are that, in my experience anyway, the out the door quality in terms of reliable, repeatable, accuracy and not great but acceptable triggers instead of grossly heavy weight trigger pulls vastly favors the black pad rifles. Slip shod work done at Ruger works from the late 70s to the new era was far more common than it is now. Most of my older #1s needed lots of tweaking to match the newer #1s. The wood in general is nowhere near as nice as early models but, even then, you can still find some prizes.
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