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Ruger #1 in 22LR ???

my-handymanmy-handyman Member Posts: 297 ✭✭
edited November 2007 in Ask the Experts
Did Ruger ever make this? Promo mayby? On a different site a person is looking for one of these. My thought is no.
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  • perry shooterperry shooter Member Posts: 17,105 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    hello made a#3 in 22 hornet never saw a rim-fire.
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  • cpermdcpermd Member Posts: 5,273 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    No.

    I have one converted by a gent in MN or Wisc or somewhere up North as I remember.
    The gunsmith's name started with a K, I think and my stepdad got it in the 70s. The smith ran ads in "Rifle" as I remember.

    I remember my stepdad hunted squirrels with it on the opening day of season each year. Then put it up til the next year. So it only got fired about 6 shots a year til he died in 1984.

    It is gorgeous but I have never fired it.

    Thanks, Hawks Carse

    I am editing to not HiJack this thread.

    John Korzinek

    That is the guy that did the #1 that I have that my stepdad had converted that I mentioned above .

    Anybody have any info on him?

    I got it out this AM and will shoot her this afternoon.


    CP
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  • charliemeyer007charliemeyer007 Member Posts: 6,572 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Years ago in one of those gun mags like shooting times there was a story by a guy who wanted a #1 in 22LR. He made one himself using a trick link he made that did not raise the block all the way thus converting from centerfire to rimfire.
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  • cpermdcpermd Member Posts: 5,273 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    charliemeyer007

    See if you can find that article.

    I can not imagine the trigger, sear, et al working without the block being raised completely into the locked position. Geometry would be WAY OFF.

    CP
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  • abcguns2abcguns2 Member Posts: 2,320 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    O.K.
    Back some years ago , when we had a big shop in Illinois , we done one of thes conversions for a guy , in my opinion , more trouble than it was worth as well as killing realistic value of a good gun ???
    Good Luck !!!
    d.a.stearns
    Gunsmith / LEO
    Niota , Tn
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  • Hawk CarseHawk Carse Member Posts: 4,383 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    John Korzinek converted a few No 1s to .22 LR or WRM by relinking the breechblock to align the firing pin with the .22's rim. There is an advanced DIY of the type described in the 1992 Gun Digest but unfortunately without pictures of the action changes; just fancy barrel and stock work.

    There was another conversion done by relocating the firing pin inside the breechblock to rimfire. There was also a .22 conversion done with an off-center barrel like a Stevens-Pope-Krag so the action did not have to be changed. I do not know the sources of those conversions. A Google found mention of Steve Durren doing one sort or another.

    It won't be cheap.
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