Ruger 1-V 22-250

[stubshaft]

I went to the LGS for a pound of H380 today. The salesman who claims to be a friend of mine pointed out a Ruger 1-V sitting in the rack. Poor little guy, all alone, chambered for that old 22-250, wearing that outdated Leupold Vari-X III 6.5X20 Varmint dot scope and suffering with a rare case of Kepplinger set triggeritis. What is even worse is that it appeared to be very lightly used. To add insult to injury the poor wretch took less than $700.00 to follow me home.

Sometimes it pays to be a Humanitarian...



BTW - Beneath that abortion of a cheekpiece was a pristine piece of figured walnut.

[Lloyd Smale]

had one. It was a tack driver. You absolutely stole that gun!!! You paid 700 bucks for a gun worth a grand and it had a scope thats worth 300 bucks easily on it. You paid about what a ruger american cost!!!!!

[gewehrfreund]

Let's see . . . .
Based on current prices/sales for these things

1V 22-250 with nice wood $1000+
Leupold Vari-X III 6.5-20 with dot and target turrets ~$450-500
Kepplinger trigger $300


I'd say you did "OK"

[pworley1]

Congratulations! I hope you can sleep at night.

[pertnear]

How come I can never get that lucky!
Are you sure you paid $700 & not $1,700?

[TNsailorman]

I hope you immediately bought a lottery ticket. You are a sure winner. james

[marlinman93]

Sounds like the guy claiming to be a friend just proved he truly is! That's a lot of gun and scope for the price. I'm a big fan of the .22-250 and have owned several over the last 45+ years. I started out wanting one for varmint hunting when a friend showed me what his could do. But I later decided to try it for deer here since it's a legal deer cartridge also. I took a lot of mule deer at up to 400 yds. with mine, and all were clean one shot kills. My hunting partners poo-poo'd it at first, but when I dropped a buck the first time I tried it at 365 yds. they all switched to one the next year!

[15meter]

I did similar 18 months ago, walk into the semi-local gun shop (an hour ride on the motorcycle). Perfect distance to get off and stretch the legs.

There were TWO on the rack. One with a 6x18 Leupold, the other with the same 6.5x20. A hundred dollars difference in the price and the 6x18 had be hunted hard and I mean hard. The 6.5x20 version looked new out of the box.

I was good, didn't try and carry a rifle home slung across my back.

But I did go back the next day in the car. Decided that the wife need to go out for dinner to this nice Italian restaurant a couple of miles south of the gun shop.

And I just had to stop and see if they were still there. Yes, yes they were. But I was a bad person and split up the pair. Took the pretty one, left the wallflower for somebody to have a winter project.

Awful expensive spaghetti, mine wasn't as inexpensive but $900 is still a price I can live with.

[koger]

I have been looking for a #1 in .270, 280 or 7x57, all are asking crazy prices now, you stole that rifle.

[j p sixguns welldone]

i haven't seen a used ruger#1 on the used racks around me in two years or more. and one for 700 in probably 10 years and that scope is another 500 or better nice snag again.

[Blanco]

Bless you Stub for taking in that old neglected orphan of a gun.

[Fulmaduro]

I found a beautiful flame grained walnut red pad 1979 Ruger No. 1 in .270 Win, excellent condition, in a LGS couple months before pandemic for $850 cash. Included a Hick's Accurizer, an aftermarket trigger (forgot which one) and a Simmons 44 Mag scope installed (since removed). I was pretty happy with the deal. It was tagged $1200 on consignment, asked the LGS owner to see what the original owner would take. Called him and he came down from $1200!

[LAH]

How come I can never get that lucky!
Are you sure you paid $700 & not $1,700?

I was thinking the same.

[square butte]

Take the money you saved and hire a gun bearer to pack that thing around for you ...