ruger #1 forend bedding

porthos

Active Member
a lot of controversy on this subject. i'm trying to decide what to do with mine. therefore some questions.
1 is the rear of your forend glass bedded to the front of the reciever?
2 is your forend glass bedded to the bbl hanger on the sides and bottom?
3 is your bbl free floated?
4 anything else that you have done with the forend to improve accuracy?
 

Rootmanslim

Banned
All of mine with light and med contour bbls (5) are free floated so they only touch at the action face and the fore end screw seat.
The rest (12) are full length bedded (1Bs, Tropicals and 6.5 Bee custom).
More myths and do-dads for No. 1s than you can count.
 

Wiresguy

Active Member
I have no experience with this product, but it may be of interest:

I've owned a couple of #1's over the years, but only have one now, a #1V with only 25 rounds through it. Need to get in some range time!
 

Maven

Well-Known Member
a lot of controversy on this subject. i'm trying to decide what to do with mine. therefore some questions.
1 is the rear of your forend glass bedded to the front of the reciever?
2 is your forend glass bedded to the bbl hanger on the sides and bottom?
3 is your bbl free floated?
4 anything else that you have done with the forend to improve accuracy?

I have a ca. 1983 Ruger #1 in .243Win. (26" bbl.), whose "as issued" fore end was so tight that it rubbed bright spots on the underside of said bbl. In spite of that it shot pretty well. However, I read an article either in "The Fouling Shot" or "The American Rifleman" on a simple method of modifying the fore end. Since I don't really know how to glass bed a bbl. and more expensive hangers were not yet on the market, I took the path of least resistance. What I did, as per the article, was take a piece of flat plastic that keeps loaves of bread and English muffin bags closed, trimmed it to fit the base of the pillar, contact cemented it in place, and then remounted the foreshock. I did not, however, tighten it with all my might. The result was, and still is excellent accuracy with either cast or jacketed bullets. Btw, according to C.E. Harris, Ruger bbl's. of ~that vintage were either very good or not so good and if you got one which shot 1.5 m.o.a. or less , you should consider yourself fortunate. I guess I am among the fortunate.
 

porthos

Active Member
i think that you are referring to the forend hanger. it is not attached to the bbl; but to the reciever. do you mean that you inserted the shim between the bbl. and the front of the hanger??
 

Maven

Well-Known Member
I attached the plastic shim to the underside of the hanger, but I haven't had the fore arm off the rifle in many years. However, it was an easy and effective fix...and the price was right to boot.