Recent content by kean57

Actually, the flash hole is part of the case, not part of the primer.

Currently, Starline brass has 32 H&R Magnum brass available for $109.50 for 500. Time to reload.😉

Starline .32 H&R Magnum brass lasts virtually forever; only the Federal brass is poor quality. I've been reloading Starline .32 Magnum brass for over 30 years now. I've never had a case split or wear out yet.

Yes, from the beginning of production.

It's actually dependent on when your 22/45 was manufactured. All of the early production 22/45s were produced with blued bolts. As the years passed, Ruger eventually began manufacturing stainless bolts for stainless receiver guns.

That's a Standard (fixed- sight model). If it had a bull-barrel and adjustable sights, it would be a Mark I. If it had a bolt hold-open, and tapered relief cuts on the rear of the receiver, it would be a Mark II.

Yes.

I don't the Dan Wesson system would work for a semi-auto pistol. In the Dan Weston system you're using the feeler gauge to set a barrel- cylinder gap. There is no barrel-cylinder gap in a semi-auto pistol.

It designated a KMK678GC that shipped from the factory without a Ruger scope base or rings, and was therefor a non-cataloged variant. Whether the letters "ABN" in the suffix stood for a particular distributor, that would be a logical guess...but I do not know the particular distributor. There...

Your logic makes perfect sense. I was aware of the grip differences in different versions of the MK4B, but somehow missed that they all used the same model number. Two similar "budget" versions of the 0186, differing only in grips, could both be assigned the same model designation by the...

Non-target barreled/sighted pistols of all Marks (I-IV) are referred to as "standards" to distinguish them from Target Models.

That pistol was shipped in 1998, with the same model number (0147). I will make a correction to my earlier posts. The 0147s that shipped in 1994, for a different distributor in Ohio, shipped with plastic grips, not laminated target grips. Why did Ruger use the same model number, for guns made...

The scope mount on that pistol wasn't introduced by Ruger until the Competition Target models came out in 1992/1993.

Not drilled and tapped at the time of production. Many people had their non-drilled and tapped pistols drilled and tapped, so that they could use Ruger scope mounts.

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