This is thread veer, but you have seen Rugers used in competition?
Yes, I have, and as a matter of fact, I own one. It's got a Clark rather than a Ruger barrel, Clark rather than Ruger guts, and Fung stocks rather than Ruger flimsy plastic grip panels.
Out of the box, the pistol's trigger was nothing short of
prohibitive of accuracy. If you pour enough time, effort, and money into a Ruger, you can turn it into a competitive gun. That said™, for what I poured into that gun, I could have bought a Pardini, which surely would have been
considerably easier to reassemble after cleaning.
All that said™, my model 41, bought new in about 1998, needed work before it was a competitive gun, though a good deal less than the Ruger.