Tonight I installed a very spiffy Clark hammer bushing in my stainless Mk III rimfire pistol. The little bag it came in came with a warning against DIY installation unless you are comfortable with detail stripping the gun and doing a little hand fitting.
So I dove right in. Thanks to Bullseye's http://guntalk-online.com/ there are great pictorial instructions available. The bushing a snug fit in a stock Ruger hammer, and an ever so slightly interference fit in my Volquartsen target hammer. A little crocus cloth followed by some 1500 grit wet-or-dry with Mother's Mag polish made it work just right in the VQ hammer. Slick and slop free.
Somewhere along the line I must have lost *cough* *cough* the magazine disconnect, but fortunately the Clark bushing is only compatible with Mk II pistols, so by a stroke of dumb luck it works anyway, AND gun is now functionally identical to a Mk II.
Dry firing no longer requires a magazine inserted. Takedown no longer requires a magazine in the gun. Magazines drop free without having to pry them out. Not bad at all.
So yeah, if you have a Mk III and want to lose the mag disconnect, get a Clark bushing. If you can detail strip a Ruger Mk pistol, the minimal amount of hand fitting required is cake in comparison.
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So I dove right in. Thanks to Bullseye's http://guntalk-online.com/ there are great pictorial instructions available. The bushing a snug fit in a stock Ruger hammer, and an ever so slightly interference fit in my Volquartsen target hammer. A little crocus cloth followed by some 1500 grit wet-or-dry with Mother's Mag polish made it work just right in the VQ hammer. Slick and slop free.
Somewhere along the line I must have lost *cough* *cough* the magazine disconnect, but fortunately the Clark bushing is only compatible with Mk II pistols, so by a stroke of dumb luck it works anyway, AND gun is now functionally identical to a Mk II.
Dry firing no longer requires a magazine inserted. Takedown no longer requires a magazine in the gun. Magazines drop free without having to pry them out. Not bad at all.So yeah, if you have a Mk III and want to lose the mag disconnect, get a Clark bushing. If you can detail strip a Ruger Mk pistol, the minimal amount of hand fitting required is cake in comparison.
