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Tang sight
Apr 30th, 2025 at 5:12pm
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Has anyone mounted a tang sight on a Ruger #1?  If so I would like to see how you did it.  Is there a work around the safety?

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Re: Tang sight
Reply #1 - Apr 30th, 2025 at 6:29pm
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I installed a Lyman #1 on a Ruger #1. Make a new base for the sight that had the safety button in it.
  
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Re: Tang sight
Reply #2 - May 1st, 2025 at 2:58am
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I'd just remove the safety if the rifle is meant for target shooting, no use for it.
  
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Re: Tang sight
Reply #3 - May 1st, 2025 at 10:23am
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Had a friend decades ago who built a wonderful scheutzen rifle based on a Ruger #1 with offhand stocks and a 30" full octagon .32-40 barrel. He put a midrange vernier tang sight on it, and built a base for the vernier sight that straddled the safety. No way to use the safety when it was installed, and I thought why not just remove it when he did the build and save the extra time or expense of building a base to straddle it.
  
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Re: Tang sight
Reply #4 - May 1st, 2025 at 2:42pm
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Thanks for the information.  I have thought of both of those ideas, but was curious what other have done.  Sense it is strictly for target shooting, removal seems the easiest way to go.  It can always be reinstalled later when its passed on.   

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Re: Tang sight
Reply #5 - May 1st, 2025 at 3:01pm
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For informal target shooting or hunting this an option.    (You need to Login or Register to view media files and links)
  
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Reply #6 - May 1st, 2025 at 6:15pm
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Not a Schuetzen rifle, but a target one with an Redfield (or similar) sight on the side had the safety lever simply slid over on a thin blade toward the right side to clear the low sight on the left. Hope this makes sense. A friend owned it as part of a large group of Ruger numero uno rifles.
  
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Re: Tang sight
Reply #7 - May 2nd, 2025 at 9:29am
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scharfe wrote on May 1st, 2025 at 3:01pm:
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I have done some work for Roger over the years, he likes working with Rugers. He also makes high end muzzle loaders. .
About 40 years back I worked for a gunsmith that designed a tang sight for a #1. He set the base with a slider on the side to work the safety.
  
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