djw54
Single-Sixer
I took my MkIII 22/45 to a friend's gathering, shooting off the back deck, with some newbie shooters, so a .22 is just the ticket. Until, halfway through the second mag, the safety just does not want to disengage, sometimes. Fiddled with it and put it away until today.
I notice as I'm trying to sort it out, that if I roll the pistol from one side to the other, sometimes it'll disengage. I take a glance through the manual, and come across the page with the infernal (no typo) safety/lock. Hmmm, so that's what that hole next to the thumb safety is. Looking in my box, there's the keys, and sure enough, the lock was floating loose between lock and unlock. Put it firmly in the unlock position, and now safety will disengage every time.
Mounted the rail (without removing rear sight) and my new Vortex Viper mini red dot, and am ready for the next range trip. Viper will mount in the rearmost slot with the rear sight in place, but it doesn't sit flush on the rail because the rear sight is too tall; had to move it one slot forward, so it is directly over the ejection port.
That's it for today.
I notice as I'm trying to sort it out, that if I roll the pistol from one side to the other, sometimes it'll disengage. I take a glance through the manual, and come across the page with the infernal (no typo) safety/lock. Hmmm, so that's what that hole next to the thumb safety is. Looking in my box, there's the keys, and sure enough, the lock was floating loose between lock and unlock. Put it firmly in the unlock position, and now safety will disengage every time.
Mounted the rail (without removing rear sight) and my new Vortex Viper mini red dot, and am ready for the next range trip. Viper will mount in the rearmost slot with the rear sight in place, but it doesn't sit flush on the rail because the rear sight is too tall; had to move it one slot forward, so it is directly over the ejection port.
That's it for today.