Broke down - bought a Ruger Mk IV Target

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Finally broke down $399 on sale at Cabelas.
Bought $400 worth of gift cards from a guy for $360 so it was a better deal yet.
They had a upgraded model with wood target grips for $479 but it still hsd the crap trigger.
Bought the basic Target, ordered a set of target grips from Tandemkross $55 and a Volquartsen accurizing kit from Brownells $86.
Now to put it all together :what:
 
Congratulations. Your adventure with the Mark IV is just getting started. You need to reduce the trigger-pull weight and get rid of the magazine disconnector. I think the Volquartsen kit will let you do both those things. Personally, I would use just the Volquartsen sear and a Ruger Mark II hammer. You can also get rid of the little magazine "kicker" at the bottom of the grip since that is unnecessary once the magazine disconnector is removed.

One problem is that the stock trigger has a little nub on the back that engages and lifts the magazine as the trigger is pulled. This adds to the trigger-pull weight. Get a Clark trigger without the nub. (To install a Clark trigger, you have to square off the front corners of the trigger opening in the frame, using a needle file.)
 
Thanks for the ideas.
I'll have to watch the internals of the Mk IV work. I'm familiar with the Mk IIl's
 
It really cheeses me off that one can pay quite a bit of money for what should be a fine .22LR pistol, and it has a crappy trigger. I really hate that about my Mk IV Hunter...so disappointed.
 
sparkyv said:
It really cheeses me off that one can pay quite a bit of money for what should be a fine .22LR pistol, and it has a crappy trigger. I really hate that about my Mk IV Hunter...so disappointed.
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To a good shooter, Too bad they are poor from the factory. My understanding is a TK or Volquartsen trigger kit corrects the problem. To bad its another $85.
Then again most of my guns have had trigger work.
 
Not everybody gets worked up over triggers for plinkers and informal target shooting fun and dispatching of minor vermin. If Ruger where to raise the price for each pistol or offer "upgrade" versions with real target grade triggers would the consumer be willing to cough up the additional $85 to $200 to cover the additional cost and custom tuning? These are production guns, if you want custom target triggers, you have to pay for it.

I do not see much difference in the trigger between my MkII Target and my MkIV Standard. Both could benefit from a little work but are fully acceptable to me for my use.

I hear you on the Mk II but why would you not trade it for a Mk IV?

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You guys are making it tough on me here. I sold off my 4" bull barrel 22/45 Mkiii because I needed some money and I hated the take down.

Rural King has the 5" barrel MkIV 22/45 for 299 this week. The longer barrel and super easy take down are very tempting. Id prefer the stainless hunter, but for the money that sounds like a good deal. Looks like a nice hiking plinker.
 
ford8nr said:
Just broke it down for the first time tonight ... WOW
Compared to a Mk III ... WOW
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Like night and day, isn't it?

Fiv3r said:
You guys are making it tough on me here. I sold off my 4" bull barrel 22/45 Mkiii because I needed some money and I hated the take down.

Rural King has the 5" barrel MkIV 22/45 for 299 this week. The longer barrel and super easy take down are very tempting. Id prefer the stainless hunter, but for the money that sounds like a good deal. Looks like a nice hiking plinker.
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At $299, I'd be all over that, whether I needed another or not!

The complexities of takedown in earlier generations has been solved.
 
You guys are like the little devil sitting on my shoulder tempting me to spend more money!!! :evil:

I have been going back and forth on this for a while, and I keep justifying it, then backing away. Ugh...
 
Doublehelix, I hear you. I am a very content owner of a MKIII SS comp slab side target. I really enjoy it. Well, at least until I read posts like this one, and there are many. Then I start drooling for the same model in a MKIV.
 
My wife has a Mk III 22/45, trigger's done, disconnector removed, shoots great. Wouldn't trade it just for ease of cleaning.
 
3Crows said:
Not everybody gets worked up over triggers for plinkers and informal target shooting fun and dispatching of minor vermin. If Ruger where to raise the price for each pistol or offer "upgrade" versions with real target grade triggers would the consumer be willing to cough up the additional $85 to $200 to cover the additional cost and custom tuning? These are production guns, if you want custom target triggers, you have to pay for it.
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My SW Victory cost some 40% less than my Mk IV Hunter and it has a significantly better trigger. Not a custom target trigger, but quite good. If SW can do it for way less money, why can't Ruger?
 
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I hear you on the Mk II but why would you not trade it for a Mk IV?
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Ain't no way I would sell a good II to finance a IV.
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As ColtPythonElite so eloquently put it, there's just no way I would sell my Mk.II Model 512 with it's outstanding, right-out-of-the-box trigger, to buy a new Mk.IV with a so-so trigger that might need work. When I find something that works, and works well, I tend to hang on to it, even when something "new and improved" like the Mk.IV, comes along. Thanks but I'm sticking with my Mk.II.

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sparkyv said:
My SW Victory cost some 40% less than my Mk IV Hunter
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As far as price, you're comparing an apple to an orange. As triggers go, there's no good reason a better grade pistol like the Hunter or Competition can't have a better trigger.
 
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This picture clearly shows the "holster ripper" front sight that was used in the bull-barrel Mark I and Mark II. (Ruger improved it somewhat in the Marks III and IV.) The ramp front sight from a Ruger Single Six is a direct replacement, provided you slightly grind the bottom of the sight to better fit the (slightly larger) bull barrel outside diameter. There is a Dremel grinding stone that is the same diameter as the Mark bull barrel. Careful grinding with this stone will give the correct radius for the bottom of the sight. (Actually, the Single Six sight will work even without this modification, with a slight, hardly visible, gap along the center of the bottom.)
 
I came to the Ruger MK party in the late 80s. All target models. Trigger work done on all 4. I'd do it all over!
 
I have been looking at the bull barrel Competition model, and then of course, the trigger updates. Makes for an expensive .22 plinker!
 
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