I'm #1!

[Turok]

WoooHooo! I'm number 1! Nothing reloading related, but I'm sure glad to see the forums back up and running. I was about to delete the link because I wasn't aware of what was going on.

Turok

[Jay Edward (deceased)]

Maybe this thread should be reloading for the #1 Ruger?  It is one of the few firearms that can handle hot loads.

I would think that heavy barrel versions using super high velocity loads would be the ticket.

Long range cartridges like klallen uses come to mind...

.30s, .32s, .35s and .375s with large cases for shooting up to 500 yards.

[klallen]

Continuing with JAY's Ruger #1 theme, I think another group of cartridges well suite for this rifle are the various big bore rounds.  Something .375ish and larger in a #1 screams of class to me.  #1's are light rigs, compared to typical big bore bolts, so ya can't be to squeemish about recoil.

I love my #1 in .416 RemMag and have enjoyed the heck out of knocking myself around with my bro's #1 .458 Lott.  Since we started working with these, it's become a desire to raise the caliber bar using the full length H&H case and have a #1 fashioned into the .470 Capstick.  May never happen but it's always in the back of my mind.  Usually something that lingers there to long becomes reality.  We'll see.  The Capstick and the #1     ...     the two together sound like quite a combo.  >>  klallen

[Turok]

I've been aching for a .375 H&H for some time. I was going to purchase one in CRF M70 as a grad present to myself, but there were none in stock . I was ready to drop a little over $2K on the rifle, dies, powder, cases, bullets and primers.  I ended up using the money for more school though. I've never considered a #1. I want it for dangerous game hunt in africa some day.

Turok

[klallen]

I guess this is the gem you'd be looking for. Ruger's #1 Tropical in .375 H&H :
 

 
With the right contacts, you could get yourself into the rifle, a scope and all the reloading stuff for under $1K pretty easy. Find the rifle in used condition and the price could be a lot less. I got my .416 RemMag used (like new condition) for $599.99. Found a fella who shot it twice and decided a 9# .416 RemMag wasn't necessarily to his liking. Snagged his dies from him, too. Great deal. Do some searching. Similar deals are out there.
 
Sometimes folks, get all up in arms with the idea of hunting dangerous game with single shot rifles. With practice, chambering a back-up shot is a split second thing. I've still got practice to do with regards to this, but can see how it could become second nature, holding back-up rounds between fingers, alla, holding back-ups for doubles rifles. Either way, I always look at a single shot rifle as being extra incentive for those that need such incentive to concentrate on the one thing that should be most important no matter the rifle you shoot ... making the first shot count.
 
On a side note, still can't figure out exactly what the heck the .405 Win is doing offered in the Tropical.  Just seems out of place with the Lott, RemMag, Rigby, H&H.  Oh well.  Topic for another time, I guess. >> klallen

[kombi1976]

If we're talking No.1's I'm with you on one side. But I'd actuaqlly like 2 No.1's.
 
One, of course, is a .416 Rigby Tropical. Great cal, great cartridge.
 
However I'd really love to get an International in 7x57. The luscious Mannlicher-style stock, the brilliant cartridge which is sadly under rated in these latter days........ahhhhh, now THAT is a real hunters rifle. Not that the big cals aren't great too but there's something about the thought of walking through the woods carrying a rifle that wouldn't have looked out of place in the arms of W.D. Bell as he hunted elephants.
Mmmm, we live in sad times that such things should pass away........My goodness I'm starting to sound like Jay!! :D

[gitano]

Well, well, well... I wasn't aware of the offering of a No.1 chambered in .405 Win. I'll be getting one of those ASAP. I've been looking for a .405, and the 405 in No.1 is just my style. Don't particularly care for the "Tropical" configuration that much, but I prefer it to a lever.
 
Kombi, just got one of these a while back.
 
Paul

[drinksgin (deceased)]

TR. , who was a short, tubby sort of fellow, [lol, that's sorta my description too] and Osa Johnson, who was about 5' and 110 lbs both liked the .405 Win., must not be too bad a cartridge

Don:D