Recent content by IOwnRugers

Here's my bench in my garage. Most of my supplies are in a locked truck box in my cool and dry basement. I only keep what I'm going to use in the next week or so in my cabinet...

That gun is long gone. I asked Ruger to replace it and they did. They didn't have any Nightwatchman models in stock and weren't bringing the line up for a while so I asked them to put my NW Novak night sights and black grips on a regular stainless model and they did. I like natural stainless...

It seems to me that people often just toss bad mags and never let Ruger know about it. The cost of the gun includes cost of the mags so we may as well be getting what we are paying for. It's no secret that Ruger has one of the best if not THE best support of all the gun makers but they can't fix...

I understand what you're saying and all I can think of is that once the next round up gets to the notch in the rear top of the mag and hits the frame it somehow tilts the nose up just as if it hits the ridge of the frame. Possibly because it's being pushed forward so there's less to keep it in...

Pic 1: Left to right, CM mag, WC mag and the Ruger mag. You can see that the rolls on the Ruger mouth are tapered back to front getting wider at the front which allows the tip to sit higher. The others show the rolls are parallel. Pic 2: Ruger, Wilson and Chip mags. Notice that the round in the...

No it's the opposite. I usually insert a full mag with slide open then release the slide so that's fine. But I do notice that the mag sometimes hits resistance on the way in not related to the mag release latch and figured out that the rim is catching the frame, exactly like in the video. But...

I was thinking of doing that with my dremel tool but this is a limited edition gun so I don't want to alter it. I'm going to see what kind of solution Ruger will offer. I might just have to use mags like Wilson where the case doesn't stick out so much and the follower is more flexible. Ruger...

After searching around and reading comments I get the impression that this is a well known problem, but this is only my second 1911 and they were both Ruger's so it's new to me and probably new to other people so I figured I'd document what I've found while trying to debug my FTF's. I think most...

I actually like the looks of it more than other 8 round mags because the plastic base forms to the base of the gun, especially in front. It fits into the notch. It's also heavy and well made aside from a dimension issue. But in the end it has to work. I think if they roll the top just a bit...

We're probably talking about the same failure. Nose lifts up because top of rim gets hung up on the frame so it doesn't go in straight and jams. Pull back on the slide a touch and the rear of the round lifts and then goes in straight. I just reported this to Ruger with pics. I have a feeling a...

Sorry if this is a known issue but doing a search for SR1911 magazine produces endless results. I've been having FTF's with my "Night Watchman" from day one so I sent it to Ruger and they replaced the slide. I went to the range yesterday and today and I'm still having occasional FTF's. They are...

Usually when something doesn't make sense it's because the government got involved.

I don't know, but I guess that's the good part about being relatively new to something. You haven't been conditioned to think that something is bad, wrong or otherwise undesirable because you've never known any different :wink: . I bought my first gun in 1991 (SP101) but it was a house gun. It...

And these are some others I've had in the past. I also had an SR45 (not shown) but I got a lemon and gave it back...