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Posted: **Mon Jan 24, 2022 9:38 am**

Is anyone aware of a change in tang length for the Number One at some point?
I have a very nice XXX factory stock, unaltered, that comes up about 1/16"-1/8" short in the tang inletting when I try to put it on any of my other Number Ones.
This stock came on a rifle I bought some time back, but I neglected to note the serial number, etc.

but it fit that rifle as it should. I've never had this problem in 40+ years of messing around with these rifles; very confusing and frustrating.

Posted: **Tue Jan 25, 2022 5:19 pm**

interesting and would like to know also if it's true, but I have no Idea...,

Posted: **Fri Jan 28, 2022 3:07 pm**

The answer is in the Ruger No. 1 book by Clayton

Posted: **Mon Mar 10, 2025 9:11 am**

just doing some stock swaps and ran into the same thing

Posted: **Mon Mar 10, 2025 4:18 pm**

zebra55 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 10, 2025 9:11 am just doing some stock swaps and ran into the same thing

Good to know I wasn’t imagining it.

Posted: **Wed Mar 12, 2025 7:08 am**

I just took a set of stocks that I had taken off an early #1 and put them on the 22 LR I had built. It is a 132 prefix receiver and the tang is longer. Here is a pic of the difference.. so I am assuming the earlier receivers were more erratic in tang length… hmmm

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