Did Ruger ever make a No. 1 B with a steel buttplate?

[257heaven]

Seller says it's original. I don't think it is. Looks like if the tape was started in the right place, LOP would be 13" or maybe less? Not sure.

 

[Rocdoc]

FAR from expert, I would say no steel buttplates factory #1, based on my limited knowledge.

 

[RSIno1]

#3 stock swap?

 

[GRAMPS 51]

Hi No Way No How Never as far as I remember LOP would be 13 1/4 -13 1/2 depending on the vintage different years different rubber pads and they all had the Ruger logo on the pads

Gramps

 

[El Numero Uno]

NO; but, remember, we never say never when talking about what Ruger may have done with No.1's. I would be interested in the answer if you asked the seller just WHY he thinks it is original, or HOW he knows it is original? Maybe Len Brownell installed it for a good friend back in Sheridan, WY. back in the day.
CLN

 

[257heaven]

Thanks guys. Seller said it was original at first, then said it was his dad's gun and he wants to sell it. I'm trying to get a more accurate LOP measurement to see what I'd have to work with.

 

[RSIno1]

depending on the vintage different years different rubber pads and they all had the Ruger logo on the pads

Except the textured Pachmayer supplied ones that had the word Ruger on them.

 

[chet15]

El Numero Uno....
Don't have a picture handy...what buttplates did the two Creedmoor rifles have on them? Those might be the only exceptions.
Chet15