Ruger No. 1 A.S.S.R.A

[Mainehunter]

Just took delivery on this jem! It's in the white and never been barreled or chambered. Now the hard part is to figure out what caliber I want it in?

Mainehunter

[OldWin]

That's cool! Never heard of such a thing.
Will it be a hunting rig? Target work?

For hunting, I'd do maybe 38-55 or 33WCF.

Target shooting I have no clue, but it would still be an old chambering for me. Maybe 6.5x55 or 30-40 Krag. Still would make good hunting rounds too.

[3leggedturtle]

7-30 Waters for rimmed cartridge, 250 Savage Avkley Improved if rimless.....

[2ndovc]

Cool!

Another vote for the .38-55!

jb

[765x53]

Be truly esoteric.
7.65x53 Mauser.

[Mainehunter]

It's going to be awhile till I get it sent out but at the moment I love to do it in a 35 caliber, maybe 35 WCF. If varmints is on the agenda mostly, I'm thinking 257 Roberts or 6.5x55. If woods loafing or stalking rifle I'm leaning towards 25-35 AI. Other ideas that pop up are 30-40 Krag, 33 WCF and 303 British. I do know one thing it'll be in a classic caliber for sure!

Mainehunter

[J Miller]

That's cool. What does A.S.S.R.A. stand foe?


Joe

[Bill in Oregon]

Joe: American Single Shot Rifle Association.
Mainehunter, I'd love to have your dilemma. If a .25-35 derivative, consider the .25-35 Tomcat discussed here a number of times.

[Mainehunter]

From what I've read and told, there were a 100 of these receivers built by Ruger for the original members of the Single Shot Rifle Association. The original members had first dibs and supposedly the corresponding lot number represented their membership number. After that if there were any leftovers they were sold to other members at that time. They were made around late 70's early 80's and were packaged in a Ruger revolver box. Mine is dated back to 1983. I've seen just one of these in the box way back in the late 90's at a gun show. Came close on buying it but at that time I was kind of strapped for cash.

Mainehunter

[Thunder50]

Saw a couple at the Coors matches. No $$$, so didn't buy one. How about a 35-30/30 or 356 Win.? 38-55 would be good, as well as a 38-72

[GunnyMack]

9.3x74 would be my choice. Why you ask- its DIFFERENT!

[Rusty]

Many many years ago when all I could do was scrape together the money for an NRA membership with help from my day I remember reading an article about some kind of strange rifle match put on by some Coors company. I had never heard of them before but they had a bunch of strange looking rifles with a lot of European cartridges that I had never heard of. A lot of the rifles had some strange looking hooked but plates and nobody had a scope, all were peep sights. I must have read that article 10 times, but I do remember one thing, the top spot went to a guy shooting a .30-06 Ruger #1.

[Yodar]

I had mine re-barreled to .348 WCF. Shoots great.

[6pt-sika]

I’d do a 32-40 or a 6.5x57R . If I did it in 32-40 it would have to be along the lines of a full blown Pope or Schoyen schuetzen rifle . If I did it in 6.5x57R it would have to be along the lines of a British light stalking rifle . My god I’ve gotten picky in my uhm old age

[barbarossa]

If it were mine I d chamber it in 303 brit and build it along the lines of this

[Mainehunter]

You guys aren't making this any easier on the cartridge choice but all of them that been mentioned here is worth looking into! One thing to keep in consideration, I think is the Ruger No. 1's or 3's aren't known for their accuracy as target rifles BUT I've seen they can be if you fine tune the forehand stock and trigger work.

Mainehunter

[rock-steady]

30/30 Winchester.

or I've always wanted a 6.5/06.

[4t5]

257 ROBERTS

[J Miller]

Joe: American Single Shot Rifle Association.
Mainehunter, I'd love to have your dilemma. If a .25-35 derivative, consider the .25-35 Tomcat discussed here a number of times.

Bill,
Thanks, that's one association I'd never heard of.

If it were mine I d chamber it in 303 brit and build it along the lines of this

barbarossa, I guess we think along a similar line. .303 British is my choice too.

Joe

[oldAG]

I think that for a somewhat unique action, I would first decide what use it is going to be put to.
303Br ? Well, no. Ruger actually made a line in that useful old British (and Empire) service round. So, been there, done that. I have one And another in 45-70Govt
Accuracy problems are usually corrected by proper bedding of the forearm off the barrel. Plenty of info' in that regard, whichever search engine you use.
YMMV

[6pt-sika]

Joe: American Single Shot Rifle Association.
Mainehunter, I'd love to have your dilemma. If a .25-35 derivative, consider the .25-35 Tomcat discussed here a number of times.

I had a Kettner single shot that was in 25-35 . Think it was prewar with a Collath period correct scope on top . Thing did very well with some factory ammo I picked up somewhere . The ammo was from the 60’s and shot extremely well in the old gun . Always wanted to kill a deer with it , but it went down the road before I ever hunted with it .

[KWK]

Oh, you don't want this to be too common, now do you, so use the .369 Nitro Express.

[Bill in Oregon]

Scroll down aways on this thread, bro.

http://forums.accuratereloading.com/eve ... 4941047752

[KWK]

I've seen Ferrell's work before. He did the Wesson Mid Range shown on Steve Earle's site. Very nice work, indeed.

[DocRock]

Has to be 30-40 Krag, THE American single shot cartridge. Can be loaded for soft shooting 200 yard targets with 4227 and the Lyman 311284 and, in the Ruger action, to match 308 Win target loads with H4350 and a Berger 175 grs VLD.

[vancelw]

9.3x74 would be my choice. Why you ask- its DIFFERENT!

Or 450/400.
So you can work up loads for your double rifle!

[Ray]

If it were mine I d chamber it in 303 brit and build it along the lines of this

That foto somehow reminds me of ross seyfried's articles.....

[Rusty]

Has to be 30-40 Krag, THE American single shot cartridge. Can be loaded for soft shooting 200 yard targets with 4227 and the Lyman 311284 and, in the Ruger action, to match 308 Win target loads with H4350 and a Berger 175 grs VLD.

That's the one that actually comes to mind for me too but I wouldn't want to meddle.

[KWK]

If it were mine I d chamber it in 303 brit and build it along the lines of this

Nice looking Westley-Richards, there.

Both .30-40 and .303 brass are getting scarce. Hornady is the only reliable source, and they entered the market after the only option was seasonal brass from Remington. I had laid in a good supply of the Rem before the Hornady was available.

If you want to get tricky, just label your .30-40 the .30 Purdey. The .30-30 rolls off the tongue just as easily and is readily available for half the price. In a No.1 it can be loaded up quite a bit, to about 100 fps below the .300 Sav.

[Mainehunter]

Scroll down aways on this thread, bro.

http://forums.accuratereloading.com/eve ... 4941047752

I have just one thing to say about that......WOW!!!!

If it were mine I d chamber it in 303 brit and build it along the lines of this

Nice looking Westley-Richards, there.

Both .30-40 and .303 brass are getting scarce. Hornady is the only reliable source, and they entered the market after the only option was seasonal brass from Remington. I had laid in a good supply of the Rem before the Hornady was available.

If you want to get tricky, just label your .30-40 the .30 Purdey. The .30-30 rolls off the tongue just as easily and is readily available for half the price. In a No.1 it can be loaded up quite a bit, to about 100 fps below the .300 Sav.

I was thinking the same way in terms of available brass. The other thought on the 30-30 would go to the 30-30 AI. I'll be shooting cast bullets mostly and I do have quite a bit of 35 cal molds. Other 35 cal calibers I was think maybe 9x57 Mauser or 35 Krag. The 9.3x62 or 9.3x74R has perked my interest but don't have any dies, brass or molds for them. As for gunsmiths I know Nonneman does work on them and also R.J. Renner.