Single shot rifles
10-04-2007 | 02:05 PM
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RE: Single shot rifles
I guess the expense thing is relative. This time of year I am out shooting two or three times a week, and I shoot between twenty and two hundred rounds per range session in various calibers, so $40 a box factory ammo seems pretty expensive to me. I am guessing from your posts you don't re-load, if you do, the suggestion of the .458 makes a lot of sense. Another possibility in the Ruger #1 is .458 Lott, you can still fire .458WM and load it up or down, and you have the versatility of being able to use all the versions of the .458. Ain't guns fun : )
10-04-2007 | 09:24 PM
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RE: Single shot rifles
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I guess the expense thing is relative. This time of year I am out shooting two or three times a week, and I shoot between twenty and two hundred rounds per range session in various calibers, so $40 a box factory ammo seems pretty expensive to me. I am guessing from your posts you don't re-load, if you do, the suggestion of the .458 makes a lot of sense. Another possibility in the Ruger #1 is .458 Lott, you can still fire .458WM and load it up or down, and you have the versatility of being able to use all the versions of the .458. Ain't guns fun : )
I guess the expense thing is relative. This time of year I am out shooting two or three times a week, and I shoot between twenty and two hundred rounds per range session in various calibers, so $40 a box factory ammo seems pretty expensive to me. I am guessing from your posts you don't re-load, if you do, the suggestion of the .458 makes a lot of sense. Another possibility in the Ruger #1 is .458 Lott, you can still fire .458WM and load it up or down, and you have the versatility of being able to use all the versions of the .458. Ain't guns fun : )
Just to clarify, are you saying that if its chambered for .458 lott i can still use 45/70(since its .458...i think)? Or that i could just handload a .458 lott down to 45/70 levels?
10-05-2007 | 06:38 AM
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From: West Liberty Iowa USA
RE: Single shot rifles
.458 Lott and .458WM are both from the same parent case, the .375H&H. The Lott is just a full length case the win mag is shortened. You can fire the win mag in the Lott chamber, you can also load the win mag down to 45/70 ballistics and use cast bullets. The 45/70 won't chamber in the win mag or Lott because it is rimmed the other two are belted. But you still have the versatility of using several rounds in the same gun. If you want to get really exotic, the Ruger #1 is also available in .416 Rigby or 470NE : )
10-05-2007 | 07:35 AM
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Ahh...thanks. Im learning (slowly) about all this. Right now from whatpeople have said and looking around myselfi think imleaning towards the 45/70 for the fact that its nice and cheap and the variaty of loads its offered in. You've got me intrigued about the .458 and thats definitely something i'll look into once Ilearn a little moreand get comfortable ebough to maybe start re-loading myself.
) just takes some common sense. Reloading opens up so many possibilities, beware though it is a sickness and will consume you
10-06-2007 | 05:16 PM
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Nontypical Buck
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RE: Single shot rifles
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Also, asI said before this will be my first gun purchase from a retailer and im wondering how it all works. If the retailer doesn't have what im looking forcan they order it from the factory for me? Or do i have to order it from the factory myselfand have them send it to the retailer?Or doesit just vary from retailer to retailer?
Also, asI said before this will be my first gun purchase from a retailer and im wondering how it all works. If the retailer doesn't have what im looking forcan they order it from the factory for me? Or do i have to order it from the factory myselfand have them send it to the retailer?Or doesit just vary from retailer to retailer?
10-06-2007 | 09:36 PM
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The dealer orders from a distributor which gets them from the manufacturer. I will tell you that blued .405's aren't readily available as the laminate oens are. Many of the ss/laminate #1's have been discontinued and many distributors have bought the remianing supply from Ruger and at lower prices and are selling them off at much lower prices than they originally sold for. Blued ones though have already had thier production run for the year and as it's not a highly sought ater model, distributors don't keep abunch in thir stock.
ORIGINAL: ohiohillbilly
Also, asI said before this will be my first gun purchase from a retailer and im wondering how it all works. If the retailer doesn't have what im looking forcan they order it from the factory for me? Or do i have to order it from the factory myselfand have them send it to the retailer?Or doesit just vary from retailer to retailer?
Also, asI said before this will be my first gun purchase from a retailer and im wondering how it all works. If the retailer doesn't have what im looking forcan they order it from the factory for me? Or do i have to order it from the factory myselfand have them send it to the retailer?Or doesit just vary from retailer to retailer?
10-06-2007 | 11:25 PM
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RE: Single shot rifles
HillBilly, Go to this website: http://www.galleryofguns.com/
This is Davidson's, the largest distributer of Ruger firearms that I know of. Most of your local gunshops have probably heard of them before.
Plinking with a .405, I wish I had your kind of money.
Vtgao
This is Davidson's, the largest distributer of Ruger firearms that I know of. Most of your local gunshops have probably heard of them before.
Plinking with a .405, I wish I had your kind of money.
Vtgao
10-07-2007 | 12:27 PM
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Plinking with a .405, I wish I had your kind of money.
Vtgao
Plinking with a .405, I wish I had your kind of money.
Vtgao
10-07-2007 | 04:57 PM
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Nontypical Buck
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RE: Single shot rifles
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heh, ireally don'thave that kind of money either. Ihaven't even reallygot the money for the rifle yet/convinced the girlfriend to let me buy it.I probably wont take it out of the closet more than 2 or 3 times a year and when i do i only buy 1or 2 boxes of ammo for each gun i take.Blowing the crap out of stuff with guns is a lot cheaper than taking a vacation...plus you don't have to deal with airports.Though, i dont think that argument would work with her
heh, ireally don'thave that kind of money either. Ihaven't even reallygot the money for the rifle yet/convinced the girlfriend to let me buy it.I probably wont take it out of the closet more than 2 or 3 times a year and when i do i only buy 1or 2 boxes of ammo for each gun i take.Blowing the crap out of stuff with guns is a lot cheaper than taking a vacation...plus you don't have to deal with airports.Though, i dont think that argument would work with her
I actually don't mind airports/air travel. Do it enough with the regualr family vacations it'll secondary now.