I found a minor oddity,,,,Now with pics

[contender]

I traded into a RST-6 MKIII upper receiver recently. It came with a "FrankenRuger" MKIII stainless 4" Hunter. Someone had taken 2 Rugers, used the stainless lower receiver & bolt for what I presumed to be a custom build. They took a RST-6 gun, put the lower & the blued bolt with the stainless Hunter upper. That left the RST-6 upper receiver as "left over" parts.
Well, when I got all this, I figured I could build another RST-6. I bought a lower & assembled the gun.
In all the trading, I hadn't looked closely at the RST-6 upper. Until I went to assemble things. The rear sight assy that is obviously new, does NOT have the notch cut out of it. A blank rear sight if you will. Now I'm considering putting the original RST-6 parts all together again to put it back "as shipped."
Anybody else here ever find a rear sight blade without the notch cut?

Here's one looking down the sights.



A side view.

 

[chet15]

I know a collector in Ohio who has a Bearcat without a rear sight notch.
Chet15

 

[contender]

Well, I'm restoring the gun to it's original configuration. I took the grip frame from the Hunter and put it back on the RST-6. All I need to put the parts back to where the gun is "as shipped" is a blued mainspring housing assembly. The forgot to swap that part when they did the conversion.

 

[rugerguy]

the 'notch' is there, off to the left end, it went out of "index" when they notched them...gotta love them 'automatic machinery' and NOT a machinist 'person' at the helm......... :roll:


so is it a Friday job, or a Monday morning one 8)

I love it when you get threaded screws and NO 'slots'.......... :shock:


yes, it does come under the category of 'QC' :wink:

But the sad part is just who or what was the person who installed the sight into the dovetail thinking? where was their mind at.............. dooh....

 

[Ale-8(1)]

. . . or slots but no threads . . .

 

[contender]

Good eye Dan. I knew the slot was "there" but in the wrong place. I wanted to show it & see who & what happened! QC did miss it. However, I had the receiver in my hands a few times before I assembled it & THEN found it myself. Duhh!

 

[rugerguy]

One of the things that all too often happen in "manufacturing" and "parts" supplies, come in a big box or bag, some of these parts are spit out by screw machines, by the thousands, and NO< folks do NOT sit around and look at each and every part, its up to the "fitter" ( builder) grab a part out of the "bin" ( yes folks Ruger and all the companies use "parts bins" of one type or another) and they put the part in or on the gun, YES< by all means the "builder/fitter" should have noticed, and YES , it should have been "spotted", noted by the "tester" ( inspector) the person who actually may have "fired" the gun during "testing", gee ,wonder if they hit the target???? duh....and on and on, same goes for the guy at the shop/store, who get the package, opened it up, wiped it down, and put it out in the showcase....................human nature, people building things for OTHER people...................and the main reason I do NOT care for or feel relevant, as to "fubars" on a finished product, fix it make it right and get on with your life.......................and yet some "collect" anomolies :roll:


Ty, THANK YOU for the reminder, many of the people out there, never get to "see" some of this stuff, nor would believe it if they did not "see" it with their OWN eyes,,,,,,,they live in an all too "perfect" world 8)

 

[Mike Armstrong]

My brother has a Colt "New Frontier" .22 convertible 4 3/4" made in the early 1970s. The .22 WRM cylinder has only 5 chambers. Guess where he rests the hammer when he carries that puppy....

 

[Hondo44]

There was a Ruger posted on this forum with a cyl that had 3 magnum chambers and 3 LR. A friend bought a used S&W .38 Model 10 (fixed sights). The rear sight notch had not been milled in the top strap groove.

 

[winchester348]

I believe those type rear sights are used for wing shooting . It gives the shooter the needed lead to hit birds moving from right to left without having to compensate. Very rare model!

 

[chet15]

I'm guessing there's more than one rear sight out there that looks like that. The rear sights are made from extruded stock, so the sight notch is probably cut into a whole bar of that extruded stock, then the rear sights individually cut.
Chet15

 

[mindustrial]

That's the "urban" model... so you can shoot the gun with the grip orientated horizontally- and that's the rare left hand model.

 

[eveled]

Apparently it is the "bad joke model".

I agree there were probably more of those sights made in error. Hard to believe any of those sights made it out of the factory. What are your plans for it?

Do you consider it a collectible or a defect?

 

[contender]

I consider this gun a defective collectable. Since I'm not a big collector of the MK series, I MIGHT be persuaded to part with it.

 

[eveled]

defective collectable.

A new realm in the collector arena.

Yours makes my defective double stamped SR1911 seem normal. Maybe we should start a sticky to document all the defective collectables,

Some people would only be interested in consecutive defective collectables! :mrgreen: Ed

 

[contender]

Hey,, just because we discover oddities,, doesn't mean we can't appreciate them. Look at coin collectors. Always looking for mint mistakes. So we find some in our Rugers! I like oddities,,,!