Beautiful sable, beautiful rifle. In fact very beautiful both.I was just on a hunt with @BC Tal, each of us had a Ruger no.1 as a DG Gun. Mine in 500 NE, and his in 416 Rigby. Two buffalo and a sable were taken with the No.1's. I have nothing but respect for the rifles and own 5 of them:
(7x57, 300 h&h, 9.3x74r, 450/400 NE, 500 NE)
Here is the 500NE with the first game we took on the trip. We had been following up Buff tracks when we chanced upon some sable with a nice bull in the pack. my plains game rifle and ammo was in the truck. So I used the 500, penetration was.... more than adequate...
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I was just on a hunt with @BC Tal, each of us had a Ruger no.1 as a DG Gun. Mine in 500 NE, and his in 416 Rigby. Two buffalo and a sable were taken with the No.1's. I have nothing but respect for the rifles and own 5 of them:
(7x57, 300 h&h, 9.3x74r, 450/400 NE, 500 NE)
Here is the 500NE with the first game we took on the trip. We had been following up Buff tracks when we chanced upon some sable with a nice bull in the pack. my plains game rifle and ammo was in the truck. So I used the 500, penetration was.... more than adequate...
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I was lucky on the barrel, as a friend of mine is the GM of IBI barrels, so he spun me a custom 26" 500NE barrel. I made the stock specifically to have a larger butt area for the recoil, and made the rear bolt recess large enough that I could slide a recoil reducer into it. The stock took about 3 days to make both the fore and rear. So recoil on it is pretty reasonable all things considering.You’ve got a proper stock and barrel on that rifle! The No 1 has a well deserved reputation for excessive recoil in large calibers. You’ve addressed the two design flaws that cause this in the big hitters.