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Started shooting a friend's #1's when I was 16. They flung a cravin' on me. Bought my first one, a 1-A in .243 when I was 27. I'm 54 now. Have owned a bunch since then, but due to a divorce seven years ago, am down to only four now:
#1-AH in .25-06 with Circassian walnut
#1-H in .375 H&H
#1-H in .416 Rigby
#1-S in .45-70 with Circassian walnut

Age 74. Bought my first in early '90's in 7mm Rem Mag. Don't have that No.1 anymore.

Second was used (in excellent condition)in .45-70, December '93. My second son now owns it. Third is a .45-70 that I purchased new and had long-throated 8 yrs ago. My favorite rifle. Has been used in testing loads for a reloading manual. Also killed a bear with it several years ago firing a 500 Hornady at 2200 fps! My hunting load today is a 350 TSX at 2470 fps into MOA. Another excellent load is the 350gr Speer at 2500 fps into sub MOA.

It carries a vintage silver Burris Safari fixed 4X that weighs 8oz. It also has beautiful wood.

Bob

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bought my first and only No. 1 at 34, a 7STW

bought my first at 17 1-b 25/06 with a 24x lepold and canjar single set trigger 53 now still got it been many more passing thru

Bought my first one in 1977, when I was 27. It is a 1A in 7x57. I've bought an average of one a year since then. Sold a few, but still have about a dozen.

I've loved the Ruger #1 ever since I first saw one - in the late 60's.

I finally bought my first Ruger #1 only about a year or two ago - when I was in my early 60's.

(Ruger #1 RSI, .243 Win)

I am almost 63, I have owned 1 #1(S)? 25-06 and 1#3 45-70.
I could not get the accuracy I wanted out of the 25-06, and local thieves stole a bunch of guns in a burglary.
SF gave me $200 for it...raped by thieves, coming and going!

I bought my first of about 30 #1s at 51 YOA. I had just returned to shooting/hunting after decades of focus on fishing. I'm 67+ now. It was a serious infatuation.

1B

I'm 62 next week and should be recieving my first in 303 british a week later. I have been away from firearms over the past 10 years. This was my choice, for the prospects of reloading and targeting over the next no. of years. Always loved the single shots.

34 yrs old and have 1. 25/06

218 bee 1A when I was 28.
257 roberts 1A last Saturday I'm now 44.

I had a stainless laminate 7mm-08 but got rid of it. 1B

I bought my first No.1 on the first year of production, whenever that was and have owned them off and on ever since and Im 75 now and just sold my .416 Rigby no. 1 and I'm without a SS...Thinking of building a 25-35 in a Ruger No.1...

Finally got my first one this spring at 36 yrs old. One of Lipsey's 1A's in .35 Whelen. Man, I love her! Always liked the No.1's but was too into bolts and not enough money. Am now saving money for my next rifle--No.1 Tropical in .375 H&H. It's become a 'must-have'! FWIW, my Whelen's best group is 5 shots .430" CTC @ 100yds with Hornday 250's. I can't shoot that thing enough. May never buy another bolt again.



"It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument" --William MacAdoo

I bought my first one at 48 years old. My 22 year old son traded for his first one at 22 years old, both 45/70 Govt's.

Mike

Bought my first in 1976, it was a heavy barrel 7 mag. and the most accurate rifle I have ever owned. I was 35 years old then. Now I am 68 and have one in 270. Have always been addicted to single shots.

I'm 34 and have the 338 RCM. It's my first #1

blackmouth,How do you like the 338RCM?

I bought my first, a 270 1A, in 1977 at age 14, readying to depart the east for the rockies when I turned 18 (which I did). Bought #2, a 300 WM 1B, now with a bead blasted matte finish, synth stock, and 24" bbl (after a soaking rusty 10 days floating the Kobuk), about 10 yrs ago at age 37.

I would imagine most 14 yr olds would now be looking at ARs, but last year, traveling from W PA to norflok, VA, stopped in a gunshop off 95, and there was a 14 yr old, with dad, picking up his stainless/laminate #1- in #% WHELEN- had to stop and talkk, interesting to hear him discuss his reasons for getting a whelen- I guess there will always be a few nutty youngsters 1977 or 2010, that like things like #1s.

The 338RCM is great. The barrel feels very heavy for the gun and gives it a good overall Heft for such a little gun. Recoil was much less than I expected. I topped the rifle with a VX-III 2.5-8x and it gets right at an 1" 100 yards.

I'm 46. I bought my first No1 (a no 1A in .243) at the age of 18. it was one of my first centerfire rifles...

Since then I have owned several other No 1s about a half dozen all togettherand helped tune /tweek several more for freinds.

As to the new generation of kids not appreciating them, well anyone who is intellegent enough to understand the why and how of an AR-15 is also smart enough to figure out the need for a No 1 in our modern world.

And there are more tradtionally minded young folk out there than one would think.

As a matter of fact, I beleive there is probably at LEAST one 20 something Ruger No. 1 fan for every old retirement aged fart out their who lusts after a stainless steel bolt gun with a "Mc Swirly" stock..

It's funny how the universe maintains it's balance that way.