Sprang for a MKII hammer spring!
Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2010 6:28 pm
I have detailed in other posts about my MKII Slabside giving me "light strikes" for the past couple of years. The gun has only 5K+ rounds and is eight years old.
Meantime I have learned a bucketfull of info about this gun and my 22/45s while reading stickies and doing the mods and clean-up work to enhance the guns' reliability. Each project I completed made the gun a bit better.
Alas, the light-strikes continued with the MKII and the one thing left was the hammer spring. Ruger hammer springs are inexpensive but they are pressed into the hammer spring assmbly by machine; therefore, I bought a complete assembly from Ruger and WOW what a difference a spring makes. Even after slipping it into the gun and dry firing it, the firm smack of the hammer onto the firing pin & bolt was a joy to hear. Today at the range hundreds of Federal bulks went bang. Goodby light strikes!
Meantime I have learned a bucketfull of info about this gun and my 22/45s while reading stickies and doing the mods and clean-up work to enhance the guns' reliability. Each project I completed made the gun a bit better.
Alas, the light-strikes continued with the MKII and the one thing left was the hammer spring. Ruger hammer springs are inexpensive but they are pressed into the hammer spring assmbly by machine; therefore, I bought a complete assembly from Ruger and WOW what a difference a spring makes. Even after slipping it into the gun and dry firing it, the firm smack of the hammer onto the firing pin & bolt was a joy to hear. Today at the range hundreds of Federal bulks went bang. Goodby light strikes!