I too own this very rifle with the full Mannlicher stock. Another Ruger #1 that I own is the Tropical model in .416 Rigby. The only animals I’ve taken with it are wild hogs in Central California.

Forgotten weapons ians amazing and does such a good job with his vidoes

Me too, it’s the Tropical model. I love it.

I did it again at 8:09😂

That's the remington imported from zastava right? If so as I think they are really nice firearms. Mauser action and great build quality! Never shot a 375 HH Mag but have a 30 06 and a 7mm Rem Mag

​@@ShaunZimmerman668yes, that's Zastava Wonder if there are other affordable Mausers in production.

@@ShaunZimmerman668 It is a very nice rifle. I was not happy with the trigger but otherwise it is a well made firearm. I installed a Boyds trigger and it has been great. Sadly, that trigger is no longer available for Mauser actions.

You can get a Ruger African in .416 Ruger for less than $2k, and their investment cast action is way more robust than those old Mausers built with mild steel. I like Mausers, but since learning that, my respect for Ruger has really been on air. Those components aren’t just cast, they are lost wax cast in a centerfige with 4140 cast steel. I don’t personally know of any action as stout as the M77 Mk II or even Hawkeye. Or there’s the Model 70.

I have Ruger Hawkeye in 375 Ruger. It is very accurate, feeds like a dream and made several one-shot kills on game in Africa last month. Cannot recommend that rifle highly enough.

I have a bit of a holy grail version of the Rugers. Mine is a #1T in .458 Winchester Magnum. It was built in 1976. That's a bit special to Ruger aficionados. So, power beyond comfortable if one wants. Handloads can run from super mild to lightning bolts. Falling block can be operated quickly with a little practice. As an alternative, I have its little brother, a #3 in .45-70 Gov't that is almost as versatile in a much lighter package. Bicentennial thunder and lightning. Love 'em.

@@johngeddes7894 ... Please explain what you mean by "centerfige".

You mean the constant battle with iphones trying to type anything that doesn’t get skewed? Here you go: C e n t r i f u g e, as in spinning quickly. Don’t know the RPMs. But grain orientation in this process exceeds even the hot drop forging process. You can research the rest yourself, being in the comment bin.

Dang that's some yeeahaw kind of energy!

Does not kick much more than a 375 H&H

I have one and it's been dragged all over from Africa to Montana. Yea the stock is scratch up the blueing is faded but it kills, dead.

As a gunmaker I wonder if you ever pulled the brl on any of your Winchester 70 brl’ed actions and point you out one of the weaknesses of their ‘controlled round-feed’ Win.70 post or pre 64 and other similar clones for the likes of Kimber, Dakota & others, if compared to the flat-breech Msr 98 design! For one: the Msr 98 & its clones don’t need the cone on the breech as they usually feed fine the way they are if properly built & reworked for the particular chambered caliber and that way always keep a full & intact treaded tenon! Your ‘coned-breech’ Winchester on the other hand had to cut into at least 1/2 of the tread-tenon to allow the extractor sliding in far enough for the bolt-face to properly head-space; essentially reducing the effective tread-tenon length to 1/2 that of the Msr 98! So which design do you think is the strongest & safest option?

​@@johanneskolenbrander8288 Didn't say the M70 had the strongest action (the Weatherby Mark V is stronger than any Mauser 98 variant), but it's strong enough. The coned breech makes the M70 more feed reliable in adverse conditions and preserves accuracy by preventing damage to soft-point bullet tips.

@@Lutz101 Well, I’m not going to further argue the Win70-M98 issues, as obviously your mind is set on that! I guess all gunmakers and dangerous game hunters are and always have been wrong for over a century? At least let my educate you here a bit on that particular misguided Wby subject ? During my 48 yrs of gunmaking/gunsmithing trade experiences, were too many times I’ve heard Roy’s favourite & rather ludricous claim, aswell as their factory favourite sales-pitch! It is in actual fact a total sham & largely hear-say wives tales, increasingly spread even further over these past decades usually by mostly the inexperienced, paper-pushing ‘wannabee’ connoisseurs & hobbyists inside this industry! I guess you own a few of them? If so and if well used, then just check closely at any Wby bolt as in actually how many of their ‘micro-lugs’ are actually touching/bearing (ie lugs which show actual wear marks and which usually take all of the pressure) and you’ll soon notice that mostly only 2-3 lugs are touching, if that! In my time, I’ve come across several were 1 or 2 lugs (3 in one case) were sheared off after firing: most likely after firing hotter handloads, but depending on which lugs, most of the time the guns still operate, so go figure! A bolt properly set up in a lathe, while using a micrometer dial gauge, will tell you the story! Next they have one of the weakest extractors in the industry: prone to break on regular occasions with only the slightest resistance! This is especially problematic amongst their so-called dangerous game rifles chambered for standard magnums and especially so for their bigger magnums, including their .378/ .460Wby line, with their skinny extractors to cater for that huge battle tank case-rimm size! Most common users to get into trouble are either the handloaders, while using cases which aren’t properly full-sized and are subsequently harder to chamber! Once chambered with some force & especially combined with an aged rifle not properly maintained, which have rough/damaged/dirty chamber-walls, the extraction will usually fail with both unfired rnds or fired cases as usually the extractor-rimm is prone to brake and leave you with a stuck case! Over the years, I can’t even recall how many rifles I had through my shop with those particular problems! Maybe need to rethink it as for which purposes to use such rifle and definitely not the ideal rifle for those who lack the necessary expertise in hand-loading & or are slack in their gun-maintenance by taking their buddies advice that rifle-bores don’t need cleaning and shoot way better if left alone! Just my 2 cents worth: take it or leave it!

No recoil reducer is better. Now I know why my Dakota is heavy.

My nerves shot….

I was thinking about the 3 times he opened the floor plate! On a rifle like that I'd never slam it back closed. I'd hold the button closed while I put the floor plate back down so it didn't mar up the floor plate where it latches! A lot of people don't even think of this tho and some might say it's anal but that's how I treat all my firearms even cheap ones!

I don't believe Ron has ever in his life dropped a rifle,and second the floor plate is ment to be closed like you mean it ,you may find out the hard way some day when you don't close it hard and let it latch properly and the floor plate pops open and dumps your cartridges on the ground with the recoil of the one you fired,,,it's a tool to be used, if you think your rifle is a Picasso ,that you have to protect from proper use ,,you should have got a picture of the thing and hung it on the wall to look at

Its meant to be used. Scratches will happen

@@keithbelz2952 ... Here's a completely free word for you to use from this moment forward. It's the past tense of mean. No, it's not meaned. And it's not "ment". Here it is, just like it appears in another comment: meant.