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From: cvedc!pdx.csd.mot.com!brian%nosun.uucp@RELAY.CS.NET (Brian Vandewettering)
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Subject: Ruger #1 Accuracy
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Date: 30 May 91 22:51:11 GMT
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I tried to reply to Kirk but his mail bounced.  It seems there is no
such machine as 'intelisc'.  Apologies to the bandwidth gods.


 I wrote:
#>Is anyone aware of a .223 lefty bolt action?  I know that Savage,
#>Remington and Ruger make a lefty in the big game calibers but I'm
#>interested in a varmit rig.  I've considered the Ruger #1; however,
#>I would like the accuracy edge the bolt action can give.  

 Kirk wrote:
# 
# Whoa, there, son!  If you glass bed the forearm on that Ruger #1, it will
# be *more* accurate than a bolt action rifle of equivalent expense.

Can you give me more details on glass bedding the Ruger #1?  Is it
something I can do at home?  Is the barrel floated or bedded along 
it's length?


 Kirk wrote:
# Not to mention the aesthetic values.
# My favorite rifle.

I have a Ruger #1 in .375 H&H.  Other than the weak extractor, it too is
my favorite (hunting) rifle.  With good handloads it will shoot 1.5 MOA.
Not much fun to shoot paper with though.  OUCH!!!

# Kirk Hays - NRA Life.

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