Ruger .22LR Reassembly Made Easy! (or at least easier)

[graycrait]

I've "customized" half dozen Ruger MKIIs and one MKIII. I have probably dis and reassembled MKII and III's 50 times or more. If you have a problem contact me. I've seen most of the problems and I can probably help you get it right. I am doing an action job on a fella's MKII this week, completely disassembling and honing friction points then installing new springs, sear, trigger and bushing.

Of the plinking .22s I put the Ruger MK series at the top of the heap. I have owned at least a 5 gallon bucketful of .22 handguns. My favorite is the S&W 422, but the Ruger MK is a close second. S&W 22A would be 3rd and Buckmark 4th. Walther P22 is next. I don't recommend Sig Mosquito. I've had and have some other brands and models and shot many others, but it is hard to go wrong with a Ruger MK series. I do recommend Glock Advantage Arms .22LR conversion kits but I really dislike the magazines, although they do work.

Some folks suggest I just start a business tuning handguns.... maybe if I could come up with some kind of business model that makes sense.

Craig in Clarksville

[mav]

Step 1. Follow instructions in Ruger manual.

Step 2. There is no step 2

You guys stop being panzies. You all sound like a bunch of cry baby non-mechanical, sheeple.

Now, straighten up and fly right.

Wow simply wow:screwy:

Edited to add: I simply can not believe some of the steps I read in your postings. Inserting magazine? Left hand in some sort of gangsta position? Tell me this is a joke of some kind and I will relax. Otherwise, I may just post some of your stuff on another gunboard for laughs!

Can't believe I am responding to this post. I must be bored. First off, a bunch of people have problems with the disassembly. It is different from any other firearm. Heck, Ruger talks about using a rubber mallet etc...

In regards to

I simply can not believe some of the steps I read in your postings

, which steps are you referring to? What I posted is pretty much the same procedure in the Ruger manual (minus the pics).

[StPatrick]

Step 1. Follow instructions in Ruger manual.

Step 2. There is no step 2

You guys stop being panzies. You all sound like a bunch of cry baby non-mechanical, sheeple.

Now, straighten up and fly right.

Wow simply wow:screwy:

Edited to add: I simply can not believe some of the steps I read in your postings. Inserting magazine? Left hand in some sort of gangsta position? Tell me this is a joke of some kind and I will relax. Otherwise, I may just post some of your stuff on another gunboard for laughs!

Please do post it on other forums...you'll help people new to the MKIII, especially those who own newer and less broken-in pistols. My advice, found in the OP, came straight from a tech at Ruger. As mentioned in said post, the manual and videos at ruger.com don't cover everything, and at a minimum, they're going to revise the video. I can't say whether or not the manual will be updated, but the Subject Matter Expert I spoke to said the videos will eventually include the extra steps I posted. Scoff if you want, but those little tips from the Ruger tech, including the magazine insertion and gangsta grip, made a paperweight back into a useable target pistol.

I'm not non-mechanical, nor am I a crybaby or a sheep. Surely an engineer can appreciate a low-cost and simple solution to a common problem, right?

[Guest Lester Weevils]

Need to get this lady to do a Mark II disassembly/reassembly video and it will be very clear--

[graycrait]

I doubt many would need more than these two websites to do anything to a Ruger MK series

Gun Talk Online

www.1bad69.com

[Guest The Highlander]

I was kidding, but only a little about just using a Boresnake on my Mk II. This pistol is 25 years old, and has in excess of 100k rounds through it. For years I shot a brick a week through the little gun except in winter. I do not take it down until/unless it starts having digestion problems, which seems to be around the 5,000 round mark give or take. At that point, depending on my mood, I'll either Boresnake/Gun Scrubber the thing or actually break it down. I keep a couple of spare recoil springs in the toolbox, and replace them whenever I feel like it, probably at about 10,000 rounds if I had to guess. That, and the every few years take down keep the problems to a dead minimum. I often use this gun to "clean up" all of the old odd lots of .22 that I find, and some of it is pretty dirty. When I keep the recoil spring fresh, and keep the gun reasonably clean, it doesn't usually have a problem.

About 10 years ago, I bought its twin as a spare just in case it ever broke. The spare has never been fired, actually, its never been out of my safe except to get wiped down and returned.

It has been a smallbore bullseye pistol, a loaner for training new shooters, a loaner for HCP classes and demo's, and an inveterate plinker par excellence. It is also probably my all-time favorite gun, and would be one of the last two I ever let go of.

It isn't as accurate as it once was, but neither are my eyes! My Kimber Rimfire Target is substantially more accurate, but also substantially more finicky about its diet than the Ruger. It also cost what a couple of Rugers do.

As I recall, my "secret" when putting it back together is to point it straight up, and a little backwards, like I'm shooting the ceiling a few feet behind me, and pulling the trigger before reinstalling the mainspring.

Edited July 29, 2010 by The Highlander
Clarity

[Capbyrd]

It has been a smallbore bullseye pistol, a loaner for training new shooters, a loaner for HCP classes and demo's, and an inveterate plinker par excellence. It is also probably my all-time favorite gun, and would be one of the last two I ever let go of.

On that note, I loaned mine to a woman in my HCP class that had never held a gun before. She was in her 60's. She jumped with every shot that was fired and couldn't shoot at the same time as the rest of us because it scared her too badly but she scored a perfect 100.

[Steelharp]

She jumped with every shot that was fired and couldn't shoot at the same time as the rest of us because it scared her too badly

Good for... her... gulp... hopefully she'll get used to it... because the .38 she's probably gonna have in her purse is gonna scare the $#i+ out of her!!!!

[TnEngineer]

Thank you Lester....

And thank you LimaTunes. You are the sound of reason in firearms. And, from a GIRL!

You guys should be ahsamed of yourselves, having to get a girl to show you how to take your Ruger MKII down to clean and rebuild it.

shame

shame

shame on you

I bet some liberals who own the same gun are watching in and laughing their butts off!!

I don't blame them. I have never seen such a bunch of panzy idiots in all my life...

Rant mode OFF

[Guest Lester Weevils]

Hi TnEngineer

I just ran across that gal's video while searching something else entirely, and thought she was cute as a bug, and have serious trouble staying on topic. She has one video review of IWB holsters showing her doing chores around the house with a baby on one hip and a full-size 45 on the other hip. Just cute as a bug.

Everybody has different talents. Expecting some folk to have mechanical aptitude is like expecting the typical Engineer or Architect to be able to spell. Sure, some Engineers can spell, but not all of em...

I have decent aptitude in certain thangs, but my mechanical aptitude is real poor. OTOH, most gun work doesn't require a mechanical genius. About anybody can learn to make a few chords on a geetar, even if they have no musical talent at all...

Folks tend to take their own talents for granted and wonder why it doesn't come natural to everybody, but OTOH covet talents they don't have.

Edited July 30, 2010 by Lester Weevils

[StPatrick]

Let the Fisking begin...

Thank you Lester....

And thank you LimaTunes. You are the sound of reason in firearms. And, from a GIRL!

That should go over well. I'm sure our female members, who also are into guns just a bit, approve of your message. Just to be clear, how does the stripping and reassembly of a MKII, which hasn't been produced since 2005, and is likely well-worn, relate to the original post about a MKIII again? Us pansies [sic] who want to fix a common problem with minimal effort are all ears.

You guys should be ahsamed of yourselves, having to get a girl to show you how to take your Ruger MKII down to clean and rebuild it.

shame

shame

shame on you!

Again, that should play well. I now realize that the tight mainspring and tolerances in a newish MKIII are points of shame. A deep and all-engulfing shame that I'm now feeling deeply, because it is very deep. As a penance, I am considering wearing a scarlet "P" for pansy [sic] around my neck, until I learn how to properly attack mechanical problems with my masculine strength and force of will. Perhaps growing a mustache is the answer - it's a lot faster than lifting weights. I'm also considering wrestling bears. If that doesn't fix it, I don't know what will.

I bet some liberals who own the same gun are watching in and laughing their butts off!

It looks like our battle will soon be over, and I will not be the victor. Pansy [sic] though I may be, I'll try to fight on: As anyone knows, wanting to find the easiest way to solve a reassembly problem is a primary indicator of socialistic tendencies. I'm pretty sure Thomas Jefferson said so. At least you've found something leftists can actually laugh at; that's a major discovery, since last I checked they have no sense of humor. Based on your advice, I will now abandon my support for an originalist interpretation of the Constitution and immediately study the collected works of Marx, Engels, Keynes, Krugman, and Friedman. Bless you for showing me what a lie I've been living! In all honesty, I have never felt so alive. I never in my life thought I would say it, but what's mine is now yours, by force if necessary.

I don't blame them. I have never seen such a bunch of panzy idiots in all my life...

I leave the field defeated, as you have clearly won the day by force of reason and argument. It is plainly obvious now that any man who has a tight and difficult to reassemble MKIII doesn't deserve to own a firearm, especially when girls can reassemble a different model Ruger .22LR on video. I am sincerely hoping my new mustache and bear-wrestling will allow me to fix such problems without resorting to calling customer service; I realize now what an act of weakness that was. Speaking for all my fellow pansy [sic] idiots, I want to extend my sincere apologies for wasting your time with the original post. That you had to stoop to my level, as opposed to pondering the mysteries of the cosmos and all that it contains, in between the vanquishing of your enemies and pleasuring of virgins, is entirely my fault. The time you spent rightfully putting this humble (almost) man and my fellow pansies [sic] in our rightful place can never be recovered, and for that I remain eternally in your debt.

Rant mode OFF

Please, don't ever turn rant mode off. Your rants shine upon us weaklings and pathetic half-men like a beacon of hope; like the Olympic games, it inspires us to be better, stronger, faster...and goes beyond that. We also want to be really smart, too.

Just a quick check - what again was it about an easy no-cost solution to a common mechanical problem that would bother an engineer?

[Tempest455]

I can't believe anyone actually takes them apart. All I've ever done to mine is run a bore snake through it, and clean the area I can get to with the bolt open. Runs like a champ.

Ditto. Did it once and will not do it again. I clean the bore and wash the chamber w/ a Q-tip and CLP. Probably have 4,000 rounds through it without a problem so far.