Ruger No. 1 lever question...

[schoolcraft]

Does the bottom lever on a Ruger No. 1 jab you in the back when you carry the rifle with a sling?

Might sound like a weird quesion, but I'm thinking about buying a No. 1 and I saw where someone on another hunting website posted that his No. 1 lever was getting hung on brush and pulled partially open and hit him in his back when carried on a sling.

Any insight would be appreciated

[dylan_b]

if you hunt with a gun long enough, every part of it will be jabbed into your back or sides from sling carry. i am no no.1 expert and i havent exactly spent more then a week hunting with my no.1 but imo it carries great and i have yet to have a problem with the lever opening while i am carrying it. that story that you heard about a no.1, if it is true, it wouldnt matter if the guy was carrying a bolt gun or a lever style gun, that brush would have caught the bolt/lever of the rifle anyway. likely its a post by someone who doesnt own a no.1 or is in deap buyers remorse. i mean honestly who would go out hunting, have a little brush catch on their gun and blame it (or at least direct some of the blame) towards the design of the rifle. not only that, but they would go out of there way to post about it as a complaint on some other website.

[HEAD0001]

Considerably less than the bolt on a bolt action. Tom.

[homers brother]

I'd say the guy on the other forum found two of the most pathetic complaints about a firearm that I've ever heard.

I've hunted with a No. 1 for a quite a few years. Unless you're slinging it across your back, you're not going to feel it any more than you would a bolt gun. And unless he's jerking it around in the brush, it takes a bit more than a simple snag to depress the catch inside the lever that unlocks the breech.

[bugsNbows]

Originally Posted by homers brother

I'd say the guy on the other forum found two of the most pathetic complaints about a firearm that I've ever heard.

I've hunted with a No. 1 for a quite a few years. Unless you're slinging it across your back, you're not going to feel it any more than you would a bolt gun. And unless he's jerking it around in the brush, it takes a bit more than a simple snag to depress the catch inside the lever that unlocks the breech.

I too have not experienced any difficulities when toting a #1 in the woods.

[Blackelk]

I have occasionally snagged the release on the lever of my No 1 in the brush a few times but no big deal. I'm a fan and that's all that matters to me.