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Has anybody written a book on the Mark II pistols? Different variations and when they went to target grips and serial number break when they went to the red eagle.
Etc......

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I do not know of a book like you are asking for. There are a few collectors who COULD do one,, but whew,, what an undertaking it would be.

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Not specific to MKII, but has some of the info you’re after:

https://www.amazon.com/Encyclopedia-Sem ... dpSrc=srch

By Chad Hiddleson, our very own chet15, editor of Red Eagle News Exchange.

thats a good informative book and covers most from the Standard auto, then Mark I and up to the advent of the Mark IIs....... ( 1949-1999)and of course now we're onto the null and void MK IIIs and today the MK IVs and on and on...........too many variations for our taste....

as for a "red eagle" only the early, early guns, unless you mean the red back ground on the 1999 anniversary autos and the mag bottoms, grip medallions????

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The mark III s have a red eagle and I have seen a few later Mark II s with a red eagle. Don’t know if someone has replaced the grips to get the red eagle or they came that way. ( I guess I mean red eagle background)

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Look at an EARLY Ruger from 1949-1951,, the eagle will be recessed,, and colored red,, with the raised area around the eagle being silver. The later MKII's MKIII's & such,, will have a raised eagle,, with the recessed background,,, and some will have a red background. Big difference in the two.

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Red background medallions for the Mark II came in with the 50th Anniversary Mark II pistol...and with that year of 1999, all Mark II's with steel/stainless steel grip frames had red background medallions from then on
Chet15

Thanks! That is what I was looking for. Some of my mark II’s came with aftermarket grips and I didn’t know what to look for to replace them with. When did they start coming with target grips? I have a 10 inch blue that has black plastic grips.

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Black plastic grips were standard on Ruger's regular production Mark II's including the MK10.
Target grips only came on specific distributor special models.
Chet15

I have a mark II 4 inch with a gold trigger. Is that the original trigger?

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If it’s a KMK4BL or MK4BL a gold trigger would be original.

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Lipsey's, a distributor who offers their special variation of some of the Ruger Mark pistol, standard production guns, will often be found with the gold anodized trigger.

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