As I’m sanding and working up the courage to select a finish for my new CPA single shot, I’m reminded of an old subject. That subject is the occasional gun magazine article about the accuracy deficiencies of the Ruger #1 single shot rifle.
Memory says the often mentioned “cure” was to keep the forend wood from contacting the receiver. Not a lot of material needed to sanded off but enough to eliminate the contact. There also were other components of the cure but I can’t recall them. A good friend had a Ruger #1 that he took with us during our “sod poodle adventures”. He went through accuracy improvements for his rifle.
So back to the CPA. I’m a member of the ASSRA, just started getting their journal and I follow their forum. I’ve also followed the Shiloh Rifle, BPCR forum since 2010. The subject of forend/receiver contact is not something I’ve seen but I could have missed it. The same for discussion and old article reading about original late 1880’s through early 1900’s single shot rifles. Maybe back then it was not discovered as an accuracy problem or maybe no one ever explored it. But who knows, there might have been discussion of it somewhere deep in the CBA archives.
So it it just the Ruger #1 or are other single shot rifles under the same microscope?
Tom
