Ruger No 1 Stock Project

[rookhawk]

The others are correct @Rafiki . For maximum strength, you do not want straight grain through the wrist, you want it to flow through the curve of the wrist gracefully so that the grain does not abruptly come straight out the back of the tang. (a weakness)

Flipping the pattern on the blank would give you ideal grain flow like.

The #1 is a through bolted action so you'll need to hog out a lot of material inside the stock. A lathe would be advised for this task. Because of the through bolt, you cannot cast the stock after manufacture very easily, you really need to carve your cast in during stocking.

 

[Rafiki]

The others are correct @Rafiki . For maximum strength, you do not want straight grain through the wrist, you want it to flow through the curve of the wrist gracefully so that the grain does not abruptly come straight out the back of the tang. (a weakness)

Flipping the pattern on the blank would give you ideal grain flow like.

The #1 is a through bolted action so you'll need to hog out a lot of material inside the stock. A lathe would be advised for this task. Because of the through bolt, you cannot cast the stock after manufacture very easily, you really need to carve your cast in during stocking.

I'll ask the stock ,sker about this.

 

[Brian]

The straight stock/comb and barrel length and weight and muzzle brake on the Ruger #1 that Kootenay Hunter shows will be very nice to shoot. The straight stock/comb make a big difference for recoil on the Ruger #1.

 

[Nevada Mike]

That is a Cecil Fredi blank.

EJ

Sure looks like it.

 

[Nevada Mike]

I'll think about it. I do need to ensure the the little bit of heartwood does not become part of the stock. It doesn't look like a problem from the images but ....


Nice. The shadow-line treatment will be on my new stock; you don't see that often. I'd like to see the rest of it if you have the images.

I will see if I can find more ohotos of the complete rifle. I have a few that were done while it was being built.

Who is going to build the stock?

 

[Rafiki]

I will see if I can find more ohotos of the complete rifle. I have a few that were done while it was being built.

Who is going to build the stock?

Paul Hampton.

 

[Rafiki]

The others are correct @Rafiki . For maximum strength, you do not want straight grain through the wrist, you want it to flow through the curve of the wrist gracefully so that the grain does not abruptly come straight out the back of the tang. (a weakness)

Flipping the pattern on the blank would give you ideal grain flow like.

The #1 is a through bolted action so you'll need to hog out a lot of material inside the stock. A lathe would be advised for this task. Because of the through bolt, you cannot cast the stock after manufacture very easily, you really need to carve your cast in during stocking.

I'm really scratching my head over this. If you look at Nevada Mikes Ruger No 1 it hast straight grain through the wrist, so does my RSM. I'd always heard that a straight grain in this area was preferable, maybe I'm wrong.

I'm going to hypothesize a bit. The tang of the Ruger No 1 is is quit a bit different than that of a bolt, obviously. The receiver is a solid block with a tang both on the top and bottom. The butt stock is fully supported buy the receiver meaning that the entire frontal area of the stock meets the entire rear of the receiver. This i assume that this design will evenly distribute the forces of recoil over a much larger area. This is a heavy recoiling beast however so the stresses are considerable.