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Bulseyetom Oldtimer Offline Posts: 951 Location: Santa Maria, Ca Joined: Oct 31^st, 2010	Ruger #1 rear sight question Dec 18^th, 2015 at 5:59pm	Print Post
	Occasionally I see on one of the forums where somebody is shooting a Ruger #1 in 32-40 or 38-55 and I am wondering what they use for a rear sight and do they drill and tap holes in the receiver to mount them? Curiosity killed the cat again! Tom


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marlinguy Frequent Elocutionist Offline Ballards may be weaker, but they sure are neater! Posts: 16041 Location: Oregon Joined: Feb 2^nd, 2009	Re: Ruger #1 rear sight question Reply #1 - Dec 18^th, 2015 at 6:25pm	Print Post
	Friend of mine built one up for schuetzen with a .32-40 full octagon barrel. He D&T the tang for a tang sight, and omitted the tang safety to put it on.

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George Babits Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1099 Joined: Sep 27^th, 2012	Re: Ruger #1 rear sight question Reply #2 - Dec 18^th, 2015 at 9:22pm	Print Post
	I'm not shooting my Ruger #1 in any matches, but long ago I drilled and tapped the receiver for a Williams peep sight and it works out pretty well for me. But, this is more of a hunting (30-06) rifle for me. George Salmon, Idaho


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GeorgeC Oldtimer Offline ASSRA 11411 Posts: 521 Location: Madison, IN Joined: Dec 27^th, 2012	Re: Ruger #1 rear sight question Reply #3 - Dec 18^th, 2015 at 10:18pm	Print Post
	Years ago I had a Ruger #3 in .30-40 Krag that I had rebarreled to .32-40 and Paul Shuttleworth made me a pearch belly stock and a fore arm. I had the receiver D&T for a Lyman receiver sight and it worked out alright. Steve Duran just recently rebarreled another #3 for me in 327 Fed. Mag. I put a #1 butt stock and Steve made me a BR fore arm. I bought an Anchutz diopter rear sight and bought an adapter to fit on my scope base on my barrel. I can take the Anschut diopter sight off and mount my Lyman STS on the scope base. CPA has the adapters listed in their online catalog.

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JS47 Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1265 Location: Arizona Joined: Oct 12^th, 2012	Re: Ruger #1 rear sight question Reply #4 - Dec 18^th, 2015 at 11:18pm	Print Post
	It's funny how sometimes these questions come up at just the right time. This afternoon I was going through some of my old Precision Shooting and Accurate Rifle magazines (an enjoyable winter pastime) and there is an article in the January 2003 Accurate Rifle by Roger Clouser about iron sights for a Ruger #1, part 2. He made and adaptor to mount a Lyman (I think, maybe a Williams) receiver sight using the existing scope rail. No drilling or tapping, thus preserving the integrity of the original receiver. JS


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.22-5-40 Oldtimer Offline Posts: 794 Joined: Feb 13^th, 2010	Re: Ruger #1 rear sight question Reply #5 - Dec 19^th, 2015 at 12:18am	Print Post
	New England Custom Gun makes a peep sight to fit 1/4 rib of No.1.


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Smoke Oldtimer Offline Posts: 695 Location: San Diego Joined: Feb 24^th, 2013	Re: Ruger #1 rear sight question Reply #6 - Dec 19^th, 2015 at 12:50am	Print Post
	For rifles that have been drilled and tapped for Lyman/Unertl blocks, number of smiths have made adapters that allow you to mount a Redfield Olympic or Int'l rear sight on the rear sight block.


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Singleshotlover Oldtimer Offline Posts: 625 Location: New Iberia,Louisiana Joined: Jun 11^th, 2006	Re: Ruger #1 rear sight question Reply #7 - Dec 20^th, 2015 at 1:09am	Print Post
	Talk about serendipity, been looking through a huge stack of both Precision Shooting & Accurate rifle for that very same issue. I have PS from about 1992 until it went out of business so it's a large stack of magazines. Thanks for the issue date and month. Looks like something to mess around this winter. My #1 is a blued 45/70 which I believe the author used in his accuracy write ups. I've also seen #1's set up using a martini adaptor as sold by Redfield mounted on #1's using either the Olympic or International rear sights and a Redfield globe front sight. thanks again, Frank

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Kurt_701 Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1013 Location: Missouri Joined: May 20^th, 2004	Re: Ruger #1 rear sight question Reply #8 - Dec 20^th, 2015 at 6:44am	Print Post
	Neal Rice made these sight mounts a few years ago. They attach to a scope block and accept a Redfield sight. Kurt

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Cat_Whisperer Frequent Elocutionist Offline No 1, 9.3x74R Posts: 3875 Location: Mountains of Virginia Joined: Apr 17^th, 2004	Re: Ruger #1 rear sight question Reply #9 - Dec 21^st, 2015 at 8:19pm	Print Post
	.22-5-40 wrote on Dec 19^th, 2015 at 12:18am: New England Custom Gun makes a peep sight to fit 1/4 rib of No.1. That's one I use on my #1 in .405Win. Stable. Takes a little to adjust so quick adjustments are iffy.

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beltfed Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1751 Location: Central Wi Joined: Dec 20^th, 2007	Re: Ruger #1 rear sight question Reply #10 - Dec 24^th, 2015 at 4:38pm	Print Post
	My solution to traditional tang sight mounting on a couple of Ruger No 1s for Traditional BPCR was to 1.0 remove the safety. 2.0 fashion a small steel block that fits inside the action just under the tang sight slot, D&T 8-32 for the Front sight screw on a "Ballard" base tang sight spacing. 3.0. Drill an appropriate hole into the top of the stock wrist so as to epoxy in half of a 8-32 coupling. Of course spaced to the aformentioned "Ballard" tang sight base spacing. 4.0 Epoxy in the half coupling. 5.0 attach tang sight of your choice. Works well for me. beltfed/arnie


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