pfisher
Bearcat
Hi all,
New member here. This may have been covered before but I've spent most of the afternoon looking for the answer and I'm not sure about what I've found so bare with me. I just picked up a new Ruger Mk III Competition and it's been having a problem right out of the box with failures to reset the trigger. The bolt seems to be cycling properly as I'm not having any ejection or feed issues. What is happening is that quite often the pistol is not resetting the trigger. I've been able to determine that when this happens if I press the mag release and pull the mag out slightly, say .25 inch, then I can see the trigger return to it's full forward position and it'll be ready to fire.
I did find some posts about this problem but I'm totally lost when it comes to firearm internals so I'm not sure about what I read. I did remove the upper to look at the trigger mechanism. I found that if I pushed down on the disconnector the trigger would move through it's full range of movement but if the disconnector was up the trigger wouldn't move. I don't know if that's what's happening when shooting but it sure feels the same through the trigger.
Anyone care to enlighten this "idiot"? What might be happening internally to keep the trigger from resetting after a shot? Why would dropping the mag a fraction of an inch allow the trigger to return to it's forward position? Thanks in advance and beers on me for whoever can answer my questions.
New member here. This may have been covered before but I've spent most of the afternoon looking for the answer and I'm not sure about what I've found so bare with me. I just picked up a new Ruger Mk III Competition and it's been having a problem right out of the box with failures to reset the trigger. The bolt seems to be cycling properly as I'm not having any ejection or feed issues. What is happening is that quite often the pistol is not resetting the trigger. I've been able to determine that when this happens if I press the mag release and pull the mag out slightly, say .25 inch, then I can see the trigger return to it's full forward position and it'll be ready to fire.
I did find some posts about this problem but I'm totally lost when it comes to firearm internals so I'm not sure about what I read. I did remove the upper to look at the trigger mechanism. I found that if I pushed down on the disconnector the trigger would move through it's full range of movement but if the disconnector was up the trigger wouldn't move. I don't know if that's what's happening when shooting but it sure feels the same through the trigger.
Anyone care to enlighten this "idiot"? What might be happening internally to keep the trigger from resetting after a shot? Why would dropping the mag a fraction of an inch allow the trigger to return to it's forward position? Thanks in advance and beers on me for whoever can answer my questions.