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It surely is, my dear friend.

Steve

On one of my Ruger #1s, I milled out an AR15 riser on the bottom to fit the top of a Ruger #1, and then glass bedded them together.

This way I can use Weaver rings, like the other 99% of my guns.

Clark I'm interested in what you did there. Care to explain the process?

It looks as though it mounts in the same position up the barrel as the stock mount, but because of the picatiny/weaver mount can you set the scope further back to the shooter to fix the eye relief problem?

Thanks.

Clark,

An elegant fix!

Another thought is that your design also allows for moving the rail back a bit further yet over the receiver ring. That would allow the use of just about any scope on Ruger #1s.

Too bad Ruger never thought of adding a rail with screws. But then they reserved all their innovative design thinking for the Ruger American.

1B

In 2001 when Tapco went from Gen I to Gen II AR15 riser mounts, I called them up and negotiated a quantity price on Gen I for $9 each.

I knew Gen I were just a big block of anodized Aluminium in the shape of a Weaver rail on top, and I could mill into shapes on the bottom, like for Mosin Nagants.

With the Ruger #1, I had kind of a hard time getting the Ruger Rib off. The screws are in tight. Very well made. It is like a short shoulder bolt.

I knew I only had to mate accurately around near the screw holes, and clearance every where else. Then put epoxy between the mount and receiver.

Since then I have noticed that the very cheap ATI scope mount for Mosin Nagants has contact ribs that act like V block force multipliers.


Who would have expected great design, quality, and usefulness from ATI?

So if I make another Ruger #1 scope mount, I would go for those out rigger contact points.

Senor Timm,

That is an awfully handsome rifle. Congrats.

I just acquired a Ruger 1A --yeah, with the hated AH forearm -- that has a rail mounted neatly to the factory quarter rib. The key point is that the rail extends back over the receiver ring to about 3/8 of an inch past the edge of the falling block!

This device gives an ungodly amount of spacing options for moving the cular end of scopes way back past the safety towards the rise in the cheek piece area. With Warne QR rings, you can detatch the scope and still use the irons -- if you can see them with your old eyes that is.

The guy I got the rifle from on another site, designed this mount, and has a metal working buddy make them.

I can email a pict to someone who volunteers to post it here.

1B

Burris medium height rings. Zeiss 3-9 scope. Works well without any other mods.