Ruger #1 Question

[Encore28]

Is there anyone out there that makes a quality synthetic stock for the #1??
 
Encore28

[DocHolliday]

I dont like the Bell and Carlson I got. Its real thick though the wrist-real thick. Otherwise fits OK.

[martineta]

Plastic stock on a # 1 ,   makes me want to cry. 

[tobster]

Kinda like ketchup on a filet mignon

[dorothy daily]

i have a b&c on one, i carry,beats scarring nice wood,which can always be put back on the gun. also, use a b&c on a #3 action. each to our own. we are the ones paying.

[Encore28]

I use my rifles----------My season is crawling through some of the nastiest thickets and swamps and was looking for a way not to destroy the wood stock.
 
Thanks for the help Doc and Dorothy
 
 
Encore28

[Thane_Of_Fife]

well, I just bought myself a 27th birthday present yesterday evening in the form of an older Ruger No.1 (I'll have to look up serial no. to date it but it has a red recoil pad which, I believe, is a sign of an older ruger).  Based on the wood I see on this rifle...I have to agree with topster and Martineta...A plastic stock for No.1 would demote the asthetic appeal of the firearm down to about a No. 12.  don't take it personally.

[Lloyd Smale]

I cant see it either. I carry a #1 because they are beautifull and if my stocks get banged up its no big deal to have them refinished. They usually look much better after a profesional refinish anyway as the stain is about painted on by ruger and it hides alot of the figure in the wood.

[martineta]

I hunt for a living. No safe queens allowed in my house. I do my best to keep my wood from getting beat up but stuff happens. Oh well, I never planned on selling them when I bought them.  Plastic lives on all my Benelli loaner shotguns at the hunting lodges.  Guess that makes me a bad man.     Rifles get wood.  Since I am a humble outfitter who worries non stop about bills, I am on the constant lookout for used extra fancy custom wood for my encores and contenders.  Always bought used wood here or other auction sites.  Oh yeah, no laminate for me either.  My brothers love laminate.  Its stronger than about anything but not my cup of tea.