Ruger no1 safety fix...

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So on my new to me no1 in 9.3x62 the safety wast sticking up way more than normal(or as I read a few place pretty normal actually...)and it was preventing the spent brass to be ejected properly(not a problem on my 30-06 RSI) so after searching and talking to a few people I decided to tackle to task of fixing it! So took the but stock off... then pushed a few pins... ten fiddle fiddle fiddle and manage to free the safety button out of the action!
Took the bouton to the shop and heated it up and bent it to where it was supposed to be in the first place then marked the metal to be removed and filed that away. I thinned the leading edge and fared it to the rest so it look half good. Used 600 grit paper to remove files marks and then 800 followed by 1000 to polish it to be ready for cold blueing! Clean, blued, reinstalled and voilà!!
https://photos.app.goo.gl/7jtN31emtyhXS9aY8
https://photos.app.goo.gl/nLYzBJxznYyF9T846
 
Nice work. If you're like me, you probably think, while you're screwing around with all this finicky crap, that it's a lot of trouble, for such a small item - but years later, you will still be pleased that you "made it right".
 
fire@will said:
Nice work. If you're like me, you probably think, while you're screwing around with all this finicky crap, that it's a lot of trouble, for such a small item - but years later, you will still be pleased that you "made it right".
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Indeed and I pulled my other no1 out of the safe and tested it but it didn’t need the modification! I think I did a decent job!!
 
I often wondered if they didn't make the safety as they did, in order for the hand loaders to capture their fired brass easily...
 
guntech said:
I often wondered if they didn't make the safety as they did, in order for the hand loaders to capture their fired brass easily...
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I thought it was more like a supplier thing. None of my older No1 rifles have the safeties sticking up like the one in the photo and you have to be careful if you don't want your brass case on the ground.

I was thinking it may have been something the original owner did, maybe to act as a blocker as you suggest. None of my No1 rifles are less than 20 years old.

I use them as hunting rifles. Three different cartridges for particular jobs. I would be upset if the case wasn't ejected completely out of the way after dropping the breech block.

I had a side by side 12 gauge that didn't have spring ejectors. Lovely gun, great wood, fit like a glove but when the Geese come in hot, wasting time to pull out hulls meant fewer birds. Maybe not much of a biggie for those shooting Geese on major flyways, but the Geese I get are mostly residents and some never leave. That means I might only see one or two flocks come within shooting range all day.
 
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Well I reload now but I always kept my brass since a long time ago and I never had a problem catching the spent brass when at the range, but in the field I don’t want that spent brass to stay anywhere close to the breach, you never know when you will need a following shot and up here when it is cold and you have cold hands the last thing you want is to fiddle around trying to pluck a spend brass out of the way!! And I think since it ain’t consistent with all no1 made it wasn’t made on purpose just bad quality control IMO!
 
I had customers who were quite happy to reduce the ejection spring weight and have the empty just sit there for removal... others wanted it to eject completely.

I think failure to eject completely was a flaw and not part of the design... if it was part of the design there would have been an on/off switch...
 
On my Tropical 375 H&H the ejecting empty case was hitting the safety, and re-entering the chamber. This action made it impossible to load another cartridge. Used to do that, not now.
 
Had the same difficulties and worked essentially the same fix on my Ruger No, 1 in 45-70. That and replacing the "hockey puck" but pad and replacing it with a Pachmayr Decelerator.
 
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