Some years back, I was at a gun show looking for a light & handy deer rifle for blind hunting in Texas. I came across a Ruger #3 with a Bushnell scope that had been rebarrelled with a fly-weight Acme barrel in .270 Win! The stock was original except the curved butt was cut-off & a tiny recoil pad had been installed. I quickly sold of the scope & replaced it with a nice Leupold. The gun all-in weighed just under 6lbs! Surprisingly, it was a very accurate & it was a joy to carry & maneuver! But the recoil was sharp & extremely unpleasant. Although accuracy was stellar, it required that the gun be placed & held exactly the same for each shot. Whatever you rested the forend on was cause for it to recoil away in the opposite direction & in turn it would throw the shot off in that direction. Eventually I refitted that rifle with Ruger #1 stocks & rebarrelled it with a varmint weight barrel in 6.8SPC. Now it's one of favorite deer rifles!
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