Best scope choice for Ruger 1 + new Q p3

I have an NC Star scope here that a fellow wants me to mount on his rifle. If this scope is typical of the products from that company, I'd stick with the Leupold option. Just pretend your truck cost $500 more, in a few months you'll have forgotten all about the money you couldn't afford to spend, but you'll have a good scope on that rifle. But here's a thought, now that you have a .303 in a fine rifle with a strong action, your .308 is redundant, perhaps even inferior. Sell the .308 to pay for your new scope.
 
haha Boomer, I said about 8 months ago that " I wont get a 308, this 3-0 will do everything the 308 can"..... nek minnit, Traded 300wsm for a 308 and havnt put it down!

Only thing I can differ from it is at the moment its Open sight, so a Sit and Wait / Gulley stalking outfit, whereas the 308 scoped is walk about shoot em out to 300 on any given day type outfit.

I hear what you are saying about sticking with a Leupold option, that 1-4 for around $300-350 is what I think il wait until I can afford, Im hoping my Insurance is going to benefit me enough to be able to put some into the Truck repayments and have some left over to keep me going until I can work again, from then on I will put the "Dream" behind me for a while an knuckle down to Working for a year or two and just Hunt the weekends when I can, instead of every 2nd -3rd-4th day... Then once im back ontop of things il get back to the Chase :)


I jus seen that NC scope there an thought id ask more experienced people.

WL
 
Boomer said:
. But here's a thought, now that you have a .303 in a fine rifle with a strong action, your .308 is redundant, perhaps even inferior. Sell the .308 to pay for your new scope.
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I hear what you are saying, I proberly don't need the 308 Calibre OR I proberly don't need the .270 Calibre that im running Varget loads through for same Velocity(little faster) than a 308, either..

I have a bad flaw, I have a very hard time "Letting go".....


Im happy with my Arsenal now and have no desire for anything more, or less so I know it sounds like the thing to do, is sell one but I don't think I will, I hear too often of people saying, "I HAD this but let it go, wish I never let that gun go etc" Sure, they proberly stil get by no problems an have a full freezer or few trophy heads on the wall...

maybe I need to 'let go'

WL
 
You get more trigger time on live targets than the majority of guys on this forum, so I'm sure you'll make the most out of which ever decision you come to. But given the choice between a poor scope and a good ghost ring for equal money, maybe consider a ghost ring. It'll give you a reason to shoot more, at least until the novelty wears off, and the precision will be much better than with the crummy factory rear sight, which doesn't even belong on a rifle of that quality.
 
Yeah mate I have seen that there is a Ghost ring which goes into the Ruger mount system! I was eying that off Also! the Williams peep made accuracy with the .375bb improve tenfold.

Certainly thinking along those lines

Cheers for your help Boomer.

WL
 
NC Star stuff is crappola IME... for the same budget price Leapers is a much better option... I still have half a dozen of their Bug Buster scopes on air rifles and rimfire rifles.
 
WhelanLad said:
Im happy with my Arsenal now and have no desire for anything more, or less so I know it sounds like the thing to do, is sell one but I don't think I will, I hear too often of people saying, "I HAD this but let it go, wish I never let that gun go etc" Sure, they proberly stil get by no problems an have a full freezer or few trophy heads on the wall...

maybe I need to 'let go'

WL
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Two week ban as a warning against any more of this foolish talk!
 
Ejector Spring Tension

Hey I just thought I would add a new Q to you in the same thread.

Im interested In hearing how much Tension is on your case Ejector on your Number 1, Does it just push it back enough to grab, or does it spit them out?


Mine originally came really tensioned up an would spit a Full case right out & if the safety was OFF the cartridge would get caught up there, if it was OFF it would shoot right out.


I backed it off, but not sure if ive set it right..

Interested in hearing your thoughts on the tension etc


Im really getting excited over my Ruger 1 the last few days, Im itching to have it out

WL
 
I bob the safety on my keepers so that the brass doesn't strike it and bounce back in... which has always been a problem, moreso with rimmed cartridges...
 
How so would one Bob their Safety?

How hard is it to take the safety off to grind it down an smoothen it right up?

I havnt looked at that option.. sounds good though!


With a loaded round in your Keepers Hoyt, how far back does it spit the round out while the muzzle is pointed downward on say a 45 degree angle.?

Edit- I'll answer that myself, With a Loaded cartridge the bullet weight will slide down the Tube at that Degree.... although with a Empty it was spitting it cleanly out.
which was my dilemma I had thought of before trying it, I didn't want to have to be wary with how I held an ejected a case, incase of a Charging... Sambar :p But it appears all is A OK in that regards..

if im ejecting a loaded round, the hunt is over, or im getting through a fence etc, but ejecting a empty case means hunt on an back up as quickly as possible.

May find a Cartridge holder for the Butt to keep atleast 2-3 rounds ready.


Cheers
WL
 
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This going back a ways, so I hope I'm remembering correctly. It seems to me that if I was shooting at the range, I'd pulled the lever part way down, just to where the falling block cleared the chamber, the brass was withdrawn enough that I could grab it while the shoulder was still in the chamber, but if I ran the lever to the full extent of the stroke, the brass flew clear of the rifle. I found this arrangement to be completely satisfactory, and I certainly wouldn't adjust the tension to the point of having an extractor only; the day may come where you're in a hurry. If someone pipes up and says this isn't possible, I'll accept that, like I said its been a long time, and it might be that I just blocked the ejected case with my hand. I do recall the base of the brass just touching the safety from time to time, but it never resulted in a hang up or any sort of malfunction, so I never found the need to trim it, but then again my brass was rimless.

I did run into two hiccups that you might encounter. The first was that the bedding of the buttstock to the tang was uneven, and with the recoil of the Rigby, it didn't take long to split. Sending the rifle out to the Ruger warranty folks did not fix the problem, because they just replaced the butt, but did not address the uneven bedding. I blamed the cartridge for a while, then when I sent the rifle out for the custom quarter rib, the gunsmith clued me in to the bedding problem. He repaired the stock, which had split a third time, bedded the bearing surface, and I never had another problem with it.

An issue that I was never able to address was that after several hours on the trail, whenever I stopped for a break and unslung, I'd see the safety had mysteriously moved to the fire position. The idea of 102 grs of 4350 erupting a few inches behind my ear was a bit of a concern, so I made a point of slinging muzzle down, and made sure that no companion walked beside me on the muzzle side. I tried leaving the action out of battery, but decorating the tundra with expensive .416 Rigby rounds and being left with an unloaded rifle wasn't going to work. The silly thing never fired unexpectedly, and I did establish a comfort level with it, but there's a reason why I've been firmly in the bolt action camp since that time.
 
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WhelanLad said:
How so would one Bob their Safety?

How hard is it to take the safety off to grind it down an smoothen it right up?

I havnt looked at that option.. sounds good though!


With a loaded round in your Keepers Hoyt, how far back does it spit the round out while the muzzle is pointed downward on say a 45 degree angle.?

Edit- I'll answer that myself, With a Loaded cartridge the bullet weight will slide down the Tube at that Degree.... although with a Empty it was spitting it cleanly out.
which was my dilemma I had thought of before trying it, I didn't want to have to be wary with how I held an ejected a case, incase of a Charging... Sambar :p But it appears all is A OK in that regards..

if im ejecting a loaded round, the hunt is over, or im getting through a fence etc, but ejecting a empty case means hunt on an back up as quickly as possible.

May find a Cartridge holder for the Butt to keep atleast 2-3 rounds ready.


Cheers
WL
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There used to be one that you could wrap around the front of the receiver that held two rounds horizontally that you could just pluck out and stick into the chamber. Something like this:

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As for the safety, I see there is one located at tropgun .com
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I thought Bowen made them but they're not on the website.
 
BigUglyMan said:
As for the safety, I see there is one located at tropgun .com
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I thought Bowen made them but they're not on the website.
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I didn't know that they were made commercially, but in essence, that is what I do... remove, grind, polish, buff, blue, reinstall... no more kick backs...
 
WL, if you can swing the Leupold VX-Hog 1-4x20 at a decent price, then you'd have a good glass for the hunting you do.

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Another option is to find a good condition Weaver K2.5 with Command Post reticle. I mounted this one on my former .475 Linebaugh No.1 and it is super quick on game in close quarters & out to 200 yds. on casual targets such as beer cans. Another older Weaver option is a K4 4x32 with Command Post. Either one of these would work well on your Ruger .303 provided they are in good condition.
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Gone fer a "root in the new ute" to break 'er in yet?;)
Cheers mate
SS
 
SHELL SHUCKER said:
WL, if you can swing the Leupold VX-Hog 1-4x20 at a decent price, then you'd have a good glass for the hunting you do.

Gone fer a "root in the new ute" to break 'er in yet?;)
Cheers mate
SS
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SS, Yep I was eying off the 1-4 although not the Pigplex, I thought I seen it with heavy duplex aswell. I think that's what i'll chase down! in due time of course an possibly after I try the ghost ring first.

haha, no roots in the new ute yet.. this town lacks the (good looking) females of 22-28 range so I guess that's why im out hunting more often than rutting! bit of a sad story but that's the way it is. They all move off to the bigger citys for education Uni or decent jobs.... I still hol faith I will run into a Janey while out in the bush ;)

I do have the Little Fella down with me at the moment so we may be takin it up bush to meet a Cousin who is bow hunting for Sambar up along a ridge somewhere to the south.. give er a run in the scrub, seein as I cant piggy back him on a critter hunt with the knee, we'll see if we can get some backstraps from the vehicle

WL
 
WhelanLad said:
haha, no roots in the new ute yet.. this town lacks the (good looking) females of 22-28 range so I guess that's why im out hunting more often than rutting! bit of a sad story but that's the way it is.

WL
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Nothin's too ugly after 2 in the mornin' an a dozen Steiny's.;)

The new ute should be fookin' near bomb proof after a good break in. Wish we could get that model over here.:(
 
SHELL SHUCKER said:
WL, if you can swing the Leupold VX-Hog 1-4x20 at a decent price, then you'd have a good glass for the hunting you do.

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Another option is to find a good condition Weaver K2.5 with Command Post reticle. I mounted this one on my former .475 Linebaugh No.1 and it is super quick on game in close quarters & out to 200 yds. on casual targets such as beer cans. Another older Weaver option is a K4 4x32 with Command Post. Either one of these would work well on your Ruger .303 provided they are in good condition.
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Gone fer a "root in the new ute" to break 'er in yet?;)
Cheers mate
SS
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Command post was a Bushnell scope term, it was a regular crosshair with a slider/lever that flipped up a post into the reticle.
 
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