Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc., commonly known as Ruger, is a leading US designer and manufacturer of firearms including rifles, pistols, revolvers and shotguns. In November 2014 the company purchased US MIM producer Megamet Solid Metals Inc., based in St Louis, Missouri. The company has since stated that the acquisition of Megamet not only secured valuable in-house MIM production capacity, but also brought the significant advantage of improving the company’s speed to market for new products.
Michael Fifer, CEO of Sturm Ruger & Company Inc., stated at the company’s 2015 Annual Shareholder’s Meeting that the key benefits of having an in-house MIM operation was in new product development, where new parts can often benefit from minor modifications or improvements. With outsourced MIM part production, Fifer suggested that it can take twelve to sixteen weeks to change the tool and be able to produce new main parts. By bringing parts of this in-house, Ruger can take the decision to focus on the must-have components and prioritise them in the production schedule.
Whilst the primary purpose of Ruger’s MIM operation is for the development and production of MIM components for internal use, it has been reported that the company undertakes the limited production of MIM parts for external customers.
Why don't double action revolvers require a transfer bar ?
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"I don't think the transfer bar (or hammer block for that matter) have anything to do with how well the trigger brakes in single action. I am not a Ruger trigger expert but I am pretty sure that transfer bar does not move during the single action trigger pull. Cocking the hammer moves the bar to the correct position for firing."
We have been over this.
The transfer bar on a Ruger single action most definitely moves as the trigger is pulled. I have over a dozen Ruger single action revolvers, and I have checked quite closely. This is because, as has been stated, the transfer bar is connected to the trigger, and as the trigger moves back to fire the gun, the hammer block rises slightly. Not as much with a double action Ruger, but it still happens.
Is it enough to affect the trigger pull?
No, unless you have incredibly sensitive equipment to measure the pull. The motion of the transfer bar as the trigger is pulled is very tiny, and the transfer bar itself hardly weighs anything in comparison to the force the trigger spring is exerting on the trigger.
A hammer block works very differently, as has been stated over and over again. In years past, gunsmiths often removed the hammer block in a quest for a smoother and lighter trigger. This was not a good practice. The hammer block in a modern (since 1944) S&W revolver is pulled down as the trigger moves the rebound slide backwards. If the hammer is cocked for single action fire, the hammer block has already been withdrawn downwards, so pulling the trigger in single action mode the hammer block will have no effect on trigger pull. In double action mode, the force needed to pull the trigger back against the rebound spring slide is massive, and gravity is helping the hammer block down anyway, so there is no effect on trigger pull.
We have been over this.
The transfer bar on a Ruger single action most definitely moves as the trigger is pulled. I have over a dozen Ruger single action revolvers, and I have checked quite closely. This is because, as has been stated, the transfer bar is connected to the trigger, and as the trigger moves back to fire the gun, the hammer block rises slightly. Not as much with a double action Ruger, but it still happens.
Is it enough to affect the trigger pull?
No, unless you have incredibly sensitive equipment to measure the pull. The motion of the transfer bar as the trigger is pulled is very tiny, and the transfer bar itself hardly weighs anything in comparison to the force the trigger spring is exerting on the trigger.
A hammer block works very differently, as has been stated over and over again. In years past, gunsmiths often removed the hammer block in a quest for a smoother and lighter trigger. This was not a good practice. The hammer block in a modern (since 1944) S&W revolver is pulled down as the trigger moves the rebound slide backwards. If the hammer is cocked for single action fire, the hammer block has already been withdrawn downwards, so pulling the trigger in single action mode the hammer block will have no effect on trigger pull. In double action mode, the force needed to pull the trigger back against the rebound spring slide is massive, and gravity is helping the hammer block down anyway, so there is no effect on trigger pull.
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