Are the Mark II's still the favorite of the Mark series? I'm wondering if they are more accurate than the newer Mark IV competition?
For ME, the MK II was the pinnacle of development for this series. It's got the features I like, with none of the extra crap.
Standard/MK I- 9 shot capacity, no last-shot bolt hold-open
MK II- fits my needs well. I've got a BUNCH of mags for them, so that kind of cements my choice of the MK II as my favorite.
MK III- lawyered up w/LCI, magazine disconnect, etc. New mag release location
might be a plus, but the MK II "heel" style release works just fine for me on target gun.
MK IV is interesting to me, but I think it suffers in the looks department! It's just lost some of the smooth/streamlined look. It's a solution to a problem that doesn't really exist- the MK II disassembly/reassembly drill isn't really that difficult, once you learn it. I'm not averse to the MK IV, and will likely own one, eventually.
I'm glad to see the 10" back in production in the MK IV series, even if it largely killed the outrageous "collector" prices the 10" MK IIs were bringing, for a while. (I've got three of them. -Sigh-… I guess I'll just have to keep them!
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Anyway, for me the MK II is kind of an "everything I need, nothing I don't" type of firearm. It's the MK series that I've settled on as pretty much ideal, so that's what I've stuck with. Already owning a bunch of spare mags is just icing on the cake!