Here's a picture of the tuning screw set-up on my Ruger. Using trial & error, I put small amount of pressure between the hangar & barrel. The forend floats. A 3 shot groups has all touching. I guess that's close to a bug-hole(?)

nice job, did this come from EBCO?

That's what i was talking about earlier, harmonic balancer.

I'm afraid this thread is going to end up costing me a lot of money.

They're a great rifle with a look and feel like no other, that money won't be wasted. Kind of talking out my azz here but they hold their value as well as any other firearm I've seen other than old Colt's and Winchesters.

My Ruger is custom & I had my gunsmith drill & tap the hole in the hangar when he did the barrel fitting. As others have mentioned, there is an adapter available that does the same thing but clamps on the hangar some how, without drilling anything.

There is a book titled "Mr. Single Shot's Gunsmithing Idea Book" written by Frank De Haas that goes into detail on experiments accurizing falling block rifles, most specifically the no.1. I own & have gone through several Ruger #1, #2, & #3's. As was stated, out of the box accuracy can be luck of the draw. My personal opinion is that just about any poor shooting #1 or #3 can be tuned-up for excellent accuracy. There is much internet info available on this topic for some Googling.

Just IMHO... there are shooters out there with #1's that are disgusted with poor accuracy & are anxious to sell their safe queen. A little bit of amateur or professional gunsmithing & you can have a fantastic hunting rifle at a fair price!

I have a half dozen of them and they are pretty much all going for double what I paid for them. The only one I'm not sure about is a 22-250 that was factory redone before I got it.

I had one in .270 that would stay around a 1.25 three shot group with factory. Never reloaded for .270 but I miss that rifle. It was handy.

Buddy of mine has a heavy barreled one in .22-250 that shoots pretty small groups. He won't sell it to me.

i bought a 220 swift a while back , only because it was a deal sombody spent bucks on case hardning reciever and scope mounting bar fancy fiddleback wood and forend with great checkering i put a scope on and shot factory hornady first yr maybe 1.5 moa decided to work up a load while the gun i was working with was cooling any way worked up a 60 gr sierra hp with re 16 had a seven shot load and a 8 shot load the highs and lows out of some brass i weighed 7 in 1.230 next 8 in 1.020 added .5 gr more and 10 shot group .920 checked it again to be sure and loaded 50 for the ranch this yr i did nothing but shoot this rifle but i think the previous owner did what ever it took so yes they can be made to shoot younger eyes could probably cut my groups by 30 percent

Anybody got any punctuation and capitalization for sale in the Trading Post?

Sorry, couldn’t pass that one up....

You're meme is missing a comma and a period.

Just HAD to upload a pic of her for grins.

Pretty!

Drooool!