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Ruger Mk. III 24/45
none | Captain Ray

Posted on 10/16/2010 4:17:23 PM PDT by Captain Ray

The Ruger MK. III 22/45 is a fine weapon.. for plinking.. killing small varmints, shooting at pop cans, and just an all around fun .22 to shoot.. It sure is hard to take apart and put back together!

Not that there is any real good reason to take it apart and put it back together... It's just something I like doing with my down time. Helps me focus on lifes real problems..

I've owned this little shooter for several years.. but hadn't taken it out of the safe for a long time.. Just had the thought that I would put it in my grizzly man hands and take it apart and put it back together for no good reason. Getting it apart was no problem.. simple enough.. putting it back together was a problem tho'! LOL

So.. after several attempts, and not much success, I go online to a wide variety of U-tube videos to help me.. and they did help.. I got it put back together.. and immediatly took it apart to see if I could put it back togther again.. and then I went back to U-tube to get it put back together again... then I tore it apart again.. (Cuz my hunny is off in Warrenton for the weekend, and I really don't have anything else to do..) and.. I managed to put it back together again three times in a row!

I'm wondering.. why the heck do you have to turn it upside down, insert the mag, then right it, pull the trigger and take out the mag and all that stuff.. as sweet a little gun that this is, why is it so hard to maintain? And what is more irritating.. is that now that I know what a pain in the keaster it is to maintain it I am compelled to take the damn thing apart and put it back together again until I know exactly why each step has to be taken!

It's not OCD.. I dont think.. But still.. If someone out there could explain the individual steps to me I would really apreciste it.

Raymond


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To: MHGinTN
Factory Unique mod. 52 20RD. .22LR. magazine
41 posted on 10/17/2010 9:11:23 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Still Thinking

Interesting. Thanks, I’m looking for a 10 round mag. I already have a large capacity mag for the pistol. The one you linked to is interesting since it appears someone cut that mag up to allow insertion of a tool to facilitate loading of 22LR ammo. I might acquire that mag and cut off the solid large cap mag I have, to make it a ten or eleven rounder!


42 posted on 10/17/2010 9:18:24 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Some, believing they can't be deceived, it's nigh impossible to convince them when they're deceived.)
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To: MHGinTN

I had a devil of a time figuring out how to load the mag in my Mark III. The rim won’t fit through the front of the feed lips, so they cut a vertical slot in the top middle of the mag (it must feed out the same way), and it took me like 10 minutes to figure it out the first time. In my defense, it’s the first rimfire auto I’ve laid hands on in 20 years.


43 posted on 10/17/2010 9:58:01 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: MHGinTN

It was really annoying too, cause the useless manual goes into nauseating detail on anything safety related and anything you would know from any other gun, but when it gets to loading the mag, it just says something like “insert rounds till mag is full” or whatever. The one thing you don’t already know, they blow off entirely.


44 posted on 10/17/2010 9:59:36 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Hardastarboard
This from a guy who had to call me and have me talk him thro
putting the top cover back on an AK?*

*Insert front first, hold down firmly, smack on top like
drunken Cossack peasant.

45 posted on 10/17/2010 10:59:12 AM PDT by CrazyIvan (What's "My Struggle" in Kenyan?)
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Did you leave out the prior step?... ‘Slug down shot of Peasant Vodka.’


46 posted on 10/17/2010 11:09:27 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Some, believing they can't be deceived, it's nigh impossible to convince them when they're deceived.)
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To: MHGinTN
OOPS! Sorry, comrade.
47 posted on 10/17/2010 11:18:20 AM PDT by CrazyIvan (What's "My Struggle" in Kenyan?)
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To: Captain Ray
This from a guy who had to call me and have me talk him through putting the top cover back on an AK?*

*Insert front first, hold down firmly, smack on top like drunken Cossack peasant.

Did you leave out the prior step?... ‘Slug down shot of Peasant Vodka.’


Hey Ray, doesn't this remind you of a thread on another board? Something about getting drunk and polishing all the finish off of a XD-9?

I've owned this little shooter for several years.. but hadn't taken it out of the safe for a long time.. Just had the thought that I would put it in my grizzly man hands and take it apart and put it back together for no good reason.

"Grizzly Man Hands" ROFL! You have soft delicate sweeper operator hands that haven't seen hard work in years. Not to mention...small hands = small *%&*.


48 posted on 10/19/2010 5:40:57 PM PDT by Tailback
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To: Tailback

first of all.. I wasnt that drunk.. and that XD-9 was begging to have the bluing polished off! And after I had the slide dura-coated it really did look good!

Second, My woman says my “hands” are just right!

Raymond


49 posted on 10/19/2010 7:23:00 PM PDT by Captain Ray
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To: Captain Ray

How would she know? She’s as pure as the wind driven snow...


50 posted on 10/19/2010 7:31:44 PM PDT by Tailback
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