Ruger MK1
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My buddy Ed is a good man. He’s not solely an awesome trainer, however he’s additionally a beautiful dad, husband, and shooter. All fantastic qualities. He’s a former deputy with a watch for … shall I say… distinctive firearms. He’s at all times displaying me one thing that he acquired a technique or one other.
Just a few weeks in the past, he introduced the above pistol to me. We had talked, up to now, about Ruger’s .22 pistols, particularly the early Marks. A few years in the past, once I was a band director in a tiny Indiana city and was leaving for one more job, the band acquired collectively and purchased me a Mk I .22 pistol. It was made in 1976 and had the “Made In The two hundredth Yr Of American Liberty” roll mark on the barrel. That was in 1978. I don’t assume that will occur as we speak… Occasions had been totally different again then, as we “seasoned residents” know.
Right here’s a photograph from the exhaustnotes.us weblog:
Anyway, the featured pistol is a Mk I, the primary of the Marks. They’re as much as 4, now.
So we see a reasonably uncommon Goal mannequin Mk I with a 6 ⅞” barrel, higher set off, undercut entrance sight, and Micro adjustable rear sight. However the sights are nullified by the scope mounted on the gun.
The scope is a generic ( I couldn’t discover a model title), mounted 4-power with customary rifle-length eye aid. That is one you must get proper up on to sight by means of. Leupold and others make prolonged eye aid scopes for pistols, however this isn’t a type of. No less than you don’t must be fearful about getting “scope forehead”… this heavy .22 has little or no recoil.
These grips and forend are clearly customized. I do not know the place they got here from… It’s clear that the forend has a brass band (the trumpet participant in me has at all times needed to put in writing that!) that attaches to the barrel. That might make it actually onerous to take away the barrel from the receiver, however… oh, properly…
The scope is mounted by a easy round clamp across the receiver. That approach, no rail or slot is required. It’s very apparent that the grips and the scope mount had been made for this mannequin solely.
So, how does it shoot?
Being a lefty, I used to be not a fan of the large thumb relaxation carved into the left grip panel, so I simply gripped over it and did the most effective I might.
After I first shot it, the gun printed about 6 inches low. Considered use of a screwdriver to carry out about 4 zillion rotations introduced the purpose of impression up.
Listed below are just a few targets. Since I used to be not “wringing out” a brand new gun for evaluate, I simply had enjoyable and introduced out two manufacturers of .22 ammo which have confirmed correct total with no matter I’ve shot them in. These had been the CCI MiniMag and Aguila Tremendous Further. I set targets up at 25 yards and proceeded to shoot them.
The primary two targets are the CCI, and the third is Aguila.
Right here is my sighter goal. I lastly acquired the windage and elevation proper,
All of those can be “minute-of-squirrel” … this could be a Jim-dandy squirrel gun! Simply set the gun on a sturdy department, get your eyeball up near the target lens, and let fly.
I suppose the takeaway from this fast little have a look at the Mk I is that this… you probably have an opportunity to select up one in all these older rimfires, do it. Ruger’s .22 pistols have a popularity for accuracy that exists to at the present time. From the Commonplace pistol launched in 1949 by means of the most recent Mk IVs, you’ll be able to’t go incorrect. And, the IVs are approach simpler to take aside to wash… however that’s a distinct story.
When you’re nonetheless capturing one in all these “historic” rimfires, let’s hear from you under!
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