Recent content by Bullseye57

Tom- You can see some of the differences by going to my Web help pages on the various models. http://guntalk-online.com/service.html Each thumbnail picture is actually an expandable link to enlarge the photos. Hope this helps, Bullseye

Tom- 22/45's do not use crosspins for sear springs. All 22/45 model pistols have a sear return spring that is a closed loop that sits in a pocket within the left side of the frame. The hammer strut cannot get hung-up on the 22/45 model like the regular metal framed pistols do with their...

What aftermarket parts are installed, if any, in your Mark III pistol? What model do you have? What was the most recent thing you did just before you noticed that your pistol would not fire consistently? Many of the things I posted to help the gentleman many years ago were specific to his...

You may want to check the spring plate (item #40 on the 22A parts breakdown diagram) it contains the slide stop. It is possible that a piece of the ruptured shell casing may be lodged underneath the spring plate and causing the slide stop to be jammed, and unable to be activated by the magazine...

I want to add that if your hammer does not release, you may have to tilt the pistol with the muzzle facing down towards the floor, or possibly even hold the trigger rearward and strike the muzzle down onto a block of wood, or some other well padded surface, to force the hammer forward and...

What has happened is your bolt stop pin is caught on the back side edge of the cocked hammer. There is a slight scallop cut on the front side of the bolt stop pin and the top of the hammer can catch into it if the hammer is moved rearward, pulling on the mainspring housing just causes the...

Sounds as if your disconnector lever, not the magazine disconnector feature, is not resetting on the sear. This could be caused by a couple of things. One your trigger is not quite traveling far enough forward to reset the disconnector on the sear. Try this before attempting to squeeze the...

Your 1976 should have a stamp that looks like this one underneath the left grip panel since it was produced after the 1972 frame change. R, Bullseye

You should also like the feel of those Hogue grips with the finger grooves, they really make the pistol fit to the hand comfortably. R, Bullseye

Just a bit of further information about swapping a 22/45 receiver onto a metal frame lower, the underside of all of the 22/45 receivers are peened "pressed in" slightly to tighten the fit onto a plastic grip frame, and may not directly fit onto a MKII style metal grip frame. Some will fit just...

There are a lot of variables in your questions, which is one reason why I suspect you are not getting a lot of cost estimates. First pricing varies by location, in some cases greatly. You have not indicated what region of the country you are located, or, if you are even within the USA. Next...

The original photo you've cited from 2010 was provided from one of my Ruger web help maintenance pages. It is for a similar problem with a pivot pin that is not staked properly and has eventually drifted out of its proper location. The pin you have described is actually the main spring latch...

Well I don't think I'll be much help in this particular situation. I didn't create any maintenance web pages for the Mark I/II series pistols back at that time because there were already several others around that covered those models well. One of my old forum members, "Yzguy", created a small...

No, the bolt catches are physically different between the 22/45 and the 22/45 Mark III models. The main difference is the length of the bolt stop buttons. An older 22/45 plastic frame is considerably wider (thicker) than its later generation Mark III counterpart and this accounts for the...

If the bolt stop is failing to seat through the receiver the rounded "nub" on the back side of the butterfly end (winged part) may need a slight filing down to facilitate assembly. I have encountered several of the newer pistols with this part needing a little bit of fitting to ease the...