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[Big D]

I've got a Ruger #1. in 25.06 Great, accurate gun for no money

[6pt-Sika]

Originally Posted by John Dallas

I've got a Ruger #1. in 25.06 Great, accurate gun for no money

When I was 11 I’d saved up money for a dirt bike . Unbeknownst to me the folks put their heads together and decided they oughtta get me thinking about centerfire rifles . They knew it would be easier to keep the rifle under control . So we started looking a bit and my pop wanted me to get a Ruger #1B in 243 at that time suggested retail was $265 if one could be found . I didn’t really want a single shot when I was 11 and Clark Brothers in Warrenton didn’t have any in stock so I ended up with a nice new 700 BDL for $120 less . Now over the last forty years I’ve owned close to fifty Ruger #1’s mostly 1B’s but a couple 1V’s and 1H’s . There’s a fairly decent collector market for #1’s . Out of the last bunch I had , I think ten of them went to a now friend in Maine at last count he had close to a hundred of them .

[Cold Spring]

I had my bore mike set at the Rock Mountain's Northern SxS in July and Rich was kind to let me measure the bulges. I have the numbers here somewhere but haven’t been able to find them as yet, but I distinctly remember both chambers were uniformly bulged and within a few thou internal diameter of each other. Apparently both shells were loaded to the same pressure level.

A somewhat similar but happier incident happened with newly imported 28-gauge cartridges at Hausmann’s in June. As told to me by a Model 21 owner he stopped firing and returned the shells to the vendor when his 21 was hard to open

[Harold Pickens]

Wonder what kind of pressure it would take to bulge them like that. I saw them at Rock Mtn., sad, that was a really nice little gun.

[Dean Romig]

I doubt it. The pressure would have to have been in one barrel, not two seperate barrels.






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[Double Lab]

The gun doubled. The pressure was extremely high in the first barrel causing excessive recoil which caused the doubling. To see a Parker 28 with bulged barrels was enough to make a grown man cry.

[Steiner]

What kind of shells were they?

[Double Lab]

Can't remember the name, Rich would probably know, but they were set up at Mike's shoot in July.

[C.O.B.]

AGC Ammo was the distributor. They are a Turkish shell BP? I don't recall exactly. The distributor is no longer importing them.

[Bill Murphy]

No longer importing those great shells? Have you sent any to be tested? Daryl has a 30" Parker 28 that should handle any shells you have left.