Ruger Function Range Trip

[Ole Joe Clark]

Finally made a fast trip to the range yesterday, to test the Ruger Mk II's that I have been working on, and testing my "Bubba Gunsmithing and Computer Repair" education.

I made a couple of hammer strut supports from piece of wood and wanted to test the function of the pistols. Actually this is excuse # 17 to go to the range.

I have been taking them apart and smoothing, breaking edges and such for about a week. I also learned and corrected my error in re assembling them.

Shot 100 rounds total and they both ran really well. I was able to hit the steel plates at 25 yards pretty regular. I have a problem focusing my right eye but I was able to see well enough to hit the plates.

Have a blessed day,

Leon

 

[SGW Gunsmith]

I really like to see, and encourage folks who own Ruger Mark pistols to take the time to get into these fine guns and learn some interesting lessons on how to do things for themselves. The Ruger Mark II pistols, for the most part, seem to be fairly smooth from the outset, but then again, there's always one or two that will make me a liar, now and then.
Maybe some will remember the flurry involved with Ruger getting the Ruger Mark III pistols from factory to dealer shelves. Their rambunctious efforts put some Mark III pistols out to the public where the actions worked like there was sand inside the action:

Some of those that reached my bench were fraught with "blood-letting" sharp edges and burrs to the point where I exhausted our supply of Flintstones band-aids, that were supposed to be relegated to grand-kids skinned knees, after doing the first 4 or 5 Ruger Mark III deburr jobs.