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beltfed Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1749 Location: Central Wi Joined: Dec 20^th, 2007	Ruger No 1,No 3 tang sight mounting Apr 1^st, 2017 at 8:10pm	Print Post
	After removing the safety, I installed a small steel block inside/just below the safety slot. Held in place by a round head capscrew, another 10-32 D&T hole, ready for tang sight screw. See pic 1418 Also bored a hole into the top of the stock wrist, and epoxied half of a 10-32 coupling into the hole. After coating the tang sight base with release agent, also then built a pad for it over the coupling to give the correct angle for the upright tang sight. see pic 1419 Finally pic 1421, tang sight mounted well back from the chamber beltfed/arnie then screw down the tang sight base.


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beltfed Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1749 Location: Central Wi Joined: Dec 20^th, 2007	Re: Ruger No 1,No 3 tang sight mounting Reply #1 - Apr 1^st, 2017 at 8:14pm	Print Post
	"Didn't need the safety on this target rifle. Safety is an open action, and chamber flag" beltfed/arnie


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Cat_Whisperer Frequent Elocutionist Offline No 1, 9.3x74R Posts: 3873 Location: Mountains of Virginia Joined: Apr 17^th, 2004	Re: Ruger No 1,No 3 tang sight mounting Reply #2 - Apr 1^st, 2017 at 9:05pm	Print Post
	beltfed wrote on Apr 1^st, 2017 at 8:14pm: "Didn't need the safety on this target rifle. Safety is an open action, and chamber flag" beltfed/arnie me too. Open action = safe.

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jy3855 Senior Forum Member Offline Posts: 368 Location: California Joined: Jul 13^th, 2015	Re: Ruger No 1,No 3 tang sight mounting Reply #3 - Apr 2^nd, 2017 at 12:01am	Print Post
	Arnie, Thank you very much for posting pics and a description of your tang sight installation on a No. 1. It validates what I envision as a workable solution. I had thought of a D&T block in the safety slot installed from below, but I hadn't thought of the front screw to keep it in place. I also pictured D&Ting the tang behind the safety rather than the stock, but by putting the rear screw into the stock, there is no alteration of the action. Something I'd do with my No. 3, but not with my factory No. 1 in 38-55. I'm thinking of having my 375 Win No. 3 rebarreled to 33-47, 35 Krag or something else, and would like to mount an MVA tang sight. I've already carved on the wood a bit. My No. 3 and a 7X57 No. 1 (You need to *Login* or *Register* to view media files and links)
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830singleshot Senior Forum Member Offline Posts: 403 Location: Texas Joined: Feb 11^th, 2007	Re: Ruger No 1,No 3 tang sight mounting Reply #4 - Apr 2^nd, 2017 at 12:24am	Print Post
	That #3 .375 looks like a heck of a neat short range lead bullet hunting rifle to me. I would want a fiber optic front sight(so I could see it!) a barrel band sling swivel and all that extra wood carved off the forend to shape it like a traditional Winchester or Steven's shape.

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jy3855 Senior Forum Member Offline Posts: 368 Location: California Joined: Jul 13^th, 2015	Re: Ruger No 1,No 3 tang sight mounting Reply #5 - Apr 2^nd, 2017 at 12:33am	Print Post
	830singleshot, I agree with you about reshaping the forearm to a Schnable - something that I have wanted to do for years, but I'm not that handy with a rasp, and am a bit intimidated with the thought of trying. I bought the 375 as a PP hunting rifle, so I could use soft bullets without worrying about stripping. Never have hunted with it, so now am thinking of a nice 32-40, 33-47, 35 Krag, etc. BTW, it shoots brilliantly with paper patched bullets. I've got a 9.3mm mold that I use with PP - Lyman # 366408. Load development at 50 yards, 2 groups, different point of aim: (You need to *Login* or *Register* to view media files and links)
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beltfed Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1749 Location: Central Wi Joined: Dec 20^th, 2007	Re: Ruger No 1,No 3 tang sight mounting Reply #6 - Apr 2^nd, 2017 at 8:46am	Print Post
	JY3855, Is that Ruger No 1, cal 38-55, the one you bought from WI/ me..? How is it shooting? beltfed/arnie


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jy3855 Senior Forum Member Offline Posts: 368 Location: California Joined: Jul 13^th, 2015	Re: Ruger No 1,No 3 tang sight mounting Reply #7 - Apr 2^nd, 2017 at 8:58am	Print Post
	Arnie, No - the No. 1 in the picture is a 1-A in 7X57. The 38-55 No. 1 that I bought from you shoots wonderfully, and is being enjoyed! Thank you.


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marlinguy Frequent Elocutionist Offline Ballards may be weaker, but they sure are neater! Posts: 16012 Location: Oregon Joined: Feb 2^nd, 2009	Re: Ruger No 1,No 3 tang sight mounting Reply #8 - Apr 2^nd, 2017 at 9:43am	Print Post
	I have a friend who made a sight base for his #1 to use a tang sight. He milled a base that fit into the slot snugly after removing the safety. It was retained with a flat plate from the bottom side, and the base was D&T for the tang sight he used. He used a single screw countersunk in the adapter base, and threaded into the plate inside the receiver. The "safety" slot held it all straight, and made a solid mount without modifying the receiver or the stock. Pretty nifty setup.

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beltfed Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1749 Location: Central Wi Joined: Dec 20^th, 2007	Re: Ruger No 1,No 3 tang sight mounting Reply #9 - Apr 2^nd, 2017 at 11:07am	Print Post
	Marlinguy, Great idea so as not to have to drill the stock. beltfed/arnie


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remp 49 Participating Member Offline Posts: 12 Joined: May 22^nd, 2007	Re: Ruger No 1,No 3 tang sight mounting Reply #10 - Apr 2^nd, 2017 at 12:59pm	Print Post
	Here is a Lyman #1 staff that I mounted using a custom base which I made. The tang safety still works.


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jy3855 Senior Forum Member Offline Posts: 368 Location: California Joined: Jul 13^th, 2015	Re: Ruger No 1,No 3 tang sight mounting Reply #11 - Apr 2^nd, 2017 at 1:17pm	Print Post
	remp 49 wrote on Apr 2^nd, 2017 at 12:59pm: Here is a Lyman #1 staff that I mounted using a custom base which I made. The tang safety still works. Wow! Pretty darned sweet, very nice work.


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beltfed Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1749 Location: Central Wi Joined: Dec 20^th, 2007	Re: Ruger No 1,No 3 tang sight mounting Reply #12 - Apr 2^nd, 2017 at 2:22pm	Print Post
	I saw another tang sight mounting base which bridged the safety. The safety button was extended off to one side, and slid back and forth under the "bridge". But, like the above, the tang sight is now closer to the chamber mouth. beltfed/arnie


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marlinguy Frequent Elocutionist Offline Ballards may be weaker, but they sure are neater! Posts: 16012 Location: Oregon Joined: Feb 2^nd, 2009	Re: Ruger No 1,No 3 tang sight mounting Reply #13 - Apr 2^nd, 2017 at 3:01pm	Print Post
	beltfed wrote on Apr 2^nd, 2017 at 2:22pm: I saw another tang sight mounting base which bridged the safety. The safety button was extended off to one side, and slid back and forth under the "bridge". But, like the above, the tang sight is now closer to the chamber mouth. beltfed/arnie Saw a Ruger #1 schuetzen rifle years ago for sale that had a vernier tang sight on it. Someone had bridged the safety with a custom base, but the base also sat back over the wrist of the stock, so it put the sight back, and lower. The whole gun was very cool, as it had a Swiss buttplate, and a #3.5 full octagon, .32-40 barrel! Seller wanted $950 then, and I didn't have the funds then, or I'd have been all over it! Was probably 20 years ago.

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