Anyone have a Ruger Mark I .22 semi-auto?

Mongo

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Greetings all, I have officially inherited my Dad's Ruger Mark I, and I am wondering if anyone else has one... I need some help in basic maintanence. This is a great little gun, highly accurate and a hoot to shoot. It's a heck of a lot cheaper to shoot than my Colt .45, but not quite as fun.
Feel free to email me or PM me.
Thanks, Mongo
 
Hello Mongo, I had a MKII and these as well as MKI are great. You could remove the barrel and upper slide with a little persuasion. It reallly isn't necessary. You can just run bore brush and some patches thru the bore. The action is a little tricky the first time you take it apart. Make sure you have a manual when you try it. The trick was to put back together upside down so that action would lock down correctly. Give Sturm Ruger a call and ask them for a manual. They should provide one for free. If not try ebay. Good luck.
 
I have an old Ruger Mk I that I inherited from my father myself. The gun started out with a bit of a dark history, but has since come to be one of my most treasured family heirlooms. When I was a kid my father would come home from work alot of times and he and I would just sit on the front porch for awhile plinkin' with it. Lots of lazy afternoons spent plinkin' an' talkin' that way. It's of course killed more than it's fair share of critters also, including one deer that had been struck by a car and was bookin' it through a Kudzu patch. In a pinch even a .22 LR can do fine with a whitetail when ya' tuck one behind its ear. :D

I still have a grand old time with it, and take it out shooting a couple times a month. My buddies all have Sig Trailsides, Browning Buckmarks, Walthers...lots of other .22 pistols which are actually much nicer than my old keepsake, but...somehow me an' my widdle wuger still manage to outshoot them every time. :D

It's one of the few guns I've rarely ever taken apart and messed with though. It's stainless steel with fixed sights, so all I've ever done with it is spray it down with some brake cleaner, wipe it down, and run a patch through it, and it still purrs right along without a glitch, hitch, or a bobble. It still has the original magazines with it, but I don't see the need to replace them. the springs are still strong as hell and bodies are in fine shape. (and it used to be kept loaded for several years when it rode in my fathers truck!) So I figure, why fix it if it aint broke?

If you need new mags, as I recall this place: http://www.rimfiresports.com carries 'em. What specific questions ya' got in mind?

Hope you enjoy yours as much as I do mine!
 
My father has a Ruger MKI that he bought in 1967, and it was the first pistol that I ever shot.(Sometimes I will say my MKI, and he says "Who's MKI?") It shoots just as good as my MKII, and I have to say that it has never jammed on me or my father one time. One day it will belong to me, but I hope that me and my father have many more years of shooting together. These are fine guns, and they can be a little tricky to strip. If you can wait until tomorrow, either we can email each other, or I can talk with you step by step how to strip the gun and assemble it.
 
These Ruger .22 pistols are amazing. I have a MKII stainless with a 6" bull barrel and adjustable sights. My brother and I took it out for a trial run and sighted it in right after I bought it. First day, with nothing fancy for ammo, I was able to put 10 shot groups into three to four inches at onehundred yards offhand. I see that more as a great testament to an excellent design and manufacturing more than my shooting ability. I'm an average shooter, at best. But, that kind of accuracy is common with these guns, as well as reliability and durability. Enjoy your Ruger!
 
I had one of those bull-barrell target models (blue steel) way back around '72 or so. Wonderful gun. Tack-driving accuracy, and dead reliable. I must have put 2000 rounds of the most mixed-bag ammo I could scrounge through it, and never a bobble.
 
I have a MK I that was my Fathers too. If you are still striking out in the help department I would be glad to help if I can.

By the way, if you have never been to www.rimfirecentral.com, check it out. There is lots of Ruger help there, and the MK I help is found in the "Ruger/other" forum.
 
Same story here, Dad taught me to shoot with his old Mark I, I taught my wife to shoot with it, and my brother and I will be teaching our kids with it pretty soon now, as it's still around, and still shoots like a champ.

Be aware that the slide doesn't lock back after the last round with the MKI ( I think that's why there's a MKII). Not a big deal, but this means you don't know your dry til you clear it. I only bring it up because my little brother very nearly blew my sack off with ours one afternoon back when were in our late teens. He thought sure he'd counted 10 rounds and that it was empty (and yes, we both knew better, it just takes one bone-headed moment for a tragedy to occur), and had an ND right in front of me as the pistol arced across his body towards the holster. I'll leave formulating a list of broken rules of gun safety as an exercise for the reader, but he missed me, and some judiciously applied bondo insured that Dad never saw the hole in the heat pump. Terrifying object lesson, but it really sharpened our focus on some obviously forgotten fundementals that we'll be passing on to the kids. We're both hoping that stupid skips a generation.
 
a friend brought me his mk1 one day in a paper sack, in 5-6 pieces, he had taken it apart to clean it/couldnt get it back together, didnt have a manual either, took me a while to get it back together lol, those are difficult pistols to assemble, esp if you didnt tyake it apart and no manual.

that said they are good accurate pistols imho, reliable too, and a bargain at the price they sell for.
 
Mongo, eventually I will receive my Dad's MKI, but he is obviously waiting until his deathbed to give it up. He loves that little pistol that much. I believe Dad's Ruger is a very early one, since he bought it way back in 1950 or something. I've watched him shoot the head off a water moccasin from about 25 ft with that little tapered barrel, fixed sight pistol, so it's plenty accurate. I imagine yours will be every bit as accurate, and you will LOVE shooting it.
 
Back home we called them tack drivers, cause we could hit tacks at 50'. Such a sweet little gun. Be careful taking apart the first time, it's a little tricky. Enjoy it.
 
I was on an Army small bore pistol team back in 1965 at Fort Bliss and we used MKIs. They were great pistols. That was the first Ruger pistol I fired.

I have a 22/45 now, and like the shape better, but will always fondly remember the old MKI.
 
I inherited my Dads Ruger Standard/Mrk I , he bought it in the late 60s early 70s, in 35 years I've fired hundreds of thousands of rounds through it, as a teen neglected it, as an adult after the oldman died I cherished it, yet in all those years I never had a misfire or a jam, as for accuracy this is one sweet 22.
 
My first good pistol was a Mark II with a bull barrel and target sights. Terrible trigger, but a great gun. I was gonna get the trigger reworked, then the gun got stolen, so I didn't have to. :mad:
 
Danbo said:
Mongo, eventually I will receive my Dad's MKI, but he is obviously waiting until his deathbed to give it up. He loves that little pistol that much. I believe Dad's Ruger is a very early one, since he bought it way back in 1950 or something. I've watched him shoot the head off a water moccasin from about 25 ft with that little tapered barrel, fixed sight pistol, so it's plenty accurate. I imagine yours will be every bit as accurate, and you will LOVE shooting it.
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Danbo, do we have the same dad?
 
I have a Ruger MK 1 model 512T (for 5 1/2 inch target barrel) easy maintenance as you only have to take it down occasionally to clean it as most of your cleaning can be done with a bore brush and rod, or a snake. when I took it apart I followed the manual and couldn't get it back together, had to call Ruger and the tech said "you just have to do this" which I have forgotten, but it is a step that is not listed in the manual :confused: but other than that it is a great shooter and I have the original cardboard box it came in with a 1973 manufacture date... great for shooting cans, targets and even indoor matches. Good luck to ya bro :)
 
Regarding the assembly after a complete dissassembly, yes, it can be frustrating. There are a "trick" or two to make assembly go smoothly. First there is a product on the market that I have no experience with, but some internet research should turn it up along with reviews.

Second is also somewhere on this big old internet, is a page of assembley steps that are much easier and simpler to follow than the owners manuel. I will be looking for it in the next few days, and if/when I find it I will post the link.

After saying all that, it is not that big of a deal. But if you have never done it, the owners manuel is pretty much a mandantory minimum before taking one apart.
 
Runs With Scissors said:
I have an old Ruger Mk I that I inherited from my father myself. The gun started out with a bit of a dark history, but has since come to be one of my most treasured family heirlooms. When I was a kid my father would come home from work alot of times and he and I would just sit on the front porch for awhile plinkin' with it. Lots of lazy afternoons spent plinkin' an' talkin' that way. It's of course killed more than it's fair share of critters also, including one deer that had been struck by a car and was bookin' it through a Kudzu patch. In a pinch even a .22 LR can do fine with a whitetail when ya' tuck one behind its ear. :D

I still have a grand old time with it, and take it out shooting a couple times a month. My buddies all have Sig Trailsides, Browning Buckmarks, Walthers...lots of other .22 pistols which are actually much nicer than my old keepsake, but...somehow me an' my widdle wuger still manage to outshoot them every time. :D

It's one of the few guns I've rarely ever taken apart and messed with though. It's stainless steel with fixed sights, so all I've ever done with it is spray it down with some brake cleaner, wipe it down, and run a patch through it, and it still purrs right along without a glitch, hitch, or a bobble. It still has the original magazines with it, but I don't see the need to replace them. the springs are still strong as hell and bodies are in fine shape. (and it used to be kept loaded for several years when it rode in my fathers truck!) So I figure, why fix it if it aint broke?

If you need new mags, as I recall this place: http://www.rimfiresports.com carries 'em. What specific questions ya' got in mind?

Hope you enjoy yours as much as I do mine!
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If you have an actual stainless steel Ruger Mark I, they're fairly rare. I would hang onto it.
 
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