Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Single Shots When did the junk barrels start for Ruger No. 1s?

what year was yours made?

'79 or'80

I'll probably try mine with shorter bullets that are good in a 10" twist. If it won't shoot those then I'll talk to Ruger about rebarreling it.

today I took out, with a load of 140 Ballistic Silvertips, and the best group was a hair under 1", after I refined my technique. So the barrel is decent. I need to experiment with other loads, and I may at some point fire lap it, but It appears to be a usable barrel. I notice Berger is selling a 168 VLD hunting that only needs a 1 in 10 twist, so I may give it a whirl in the Ruger.

I bought a new 1B in .22-250 in 1972. It was at best a 1. 1/2 to 2 inch rifle....and that was on a good day. No amount of load tweeking and fiddling with the bedding had much effect. It went down the road after a few years. Had nice wood though.

A silly thread.

Does the OP own any inaccurate No. 1s ? No of course not.

Another urban legend.

I own/owned 30+ made from day one to 2016.

ALL respond to a real cleaning, good loading and/or bedding tweeks.

If anyone has one that they can't get to shoot, I'll give you 500 bucks for it. (prefer early red pads)

Ruger did use several barrel makers (Douglas, Wilson, in House) all will produce hunting accuracy appropriate to their chambering.

Clean the bore to bare metal, bore scope it and see what's what. 99.9% of those repeating the Ruger barrel myth have never done that, just reparrot what the last guy said.

Absent a gross manufacturing defect or abuse, any barrel will shoot if you invest the time.

No, I don't own any inaccurate ones since my sample of one ('06 RSI) shoots bug holes. However, enough people who should know what they're talking about have had trouble with the long throated wilson barrels. Not everyone has the time or inclination to "invest the time" getting one to shoot.

"enough people" ? Who, when, where ?

"long throats" are a + in a single shot. Note the number of folks putting a 257 Bob in a long action bolt gun with a long throat to shoot heavy bullets to gain nothing over a bone stock 25-06.

If you have neither the time or inclination to get a rifle to shoot, buy a Savage bolt gun, they all shoot great out of the box.

My $500 offer stands.

Glad they shoot well for you. I have had four, three were heavy barrel varminters. None of the four shot accurately, even after several fore end accurazing tweaks, after market triggers ( Kepplinger) and other expensive attempts at accuracy enhancement.
Great looking rifles but I'll never own another.

"If anyone has one that they can't get to shoot, I'll give you 500 bucks for it. (prefer early red pads)"

I have a few. Case in point, a #1B in 25-06, looks bad and was bought to use as a donor. Sub MOA with everything I've run through it. Found another 25-06 with spectacular wood. It thinks it's a open bore shotgun. Still working on that one. Out of the 20 #1's I have, still working with three. Only one was bad enough to need sending back toe Ruger. Rifles in 7x57 do not need 2.5"+ throats. Ruger installed a new barrel. I have them from .22 Hornet to .416 Rigby. All are red pads BTW.
Paul B.

Pops bought a used one 1B in .22-250.
Orig owner had to send it back to Ruger for new bbl not long after he got it.
Was an older redpad. Earlier than mine.....and mine from the mid 70's (1B .243 win which shot great).
Current #1 is also a .243 win, 1985 model.........RSI.
One factory load cloverleafs at 80 yards.

PJ,

PM me some pics of them.

PM me where to send the money.

I'll send you a grand and an FFL.

Thanks !