Mark II Target -- Best Improvement of ONE (1) Item Change

[Delbert]

Inherited my Granddad's '84 MarkII 10" bull barrel and wanting to change out some stock parts to make for nicer shooting. Would it be the best to change out the trigger (along with the springs and adjustable over-travel), OR swap out all springs for competition springs?

There's lots of options and sellers out there to choose from in upgrading these Marks.

Already installed extended magazine release, Hogue finger-groove wrap around w/ thumb rest hand grip and 3 new Ruger magazines for starters. Pistol already had a scope mount system w/Leupold 2.5 EER scope on it.

Am also looking at going with stainless sear and hammer bushing, but not disassembled this gun down fully to know what metal they use for these from factory. Just doing a little at time for improvements, but some improvements are better than others in just replacing.

 

[hittman]

Original condition is where it’s at.
What’s wrong with it now?
Bet Ruger would still service it for you.

 

[s4s4u]

Have you shot it yet?

 

[contender]

The MKII "as is" can be a mighty fine shooter.

But if you just HAVE to tinker on it,, a Volquartsen kit has a lot of folks using them & claim improvement.

Shooting it a lot to where the parts work into each other will make it a sweet shooter. I have a MK I with a LOT of ammo through it & it's a very nice shooter. Then I also have a MKII with similar use,, & it has "amazed" several folks at how good it shoots.

 

[mirglip]

I have had a bunch of Mark II's and I always do one $37 modification. I install a Volquartsen sear. No trigger, no springs, no kit, just sear. It's getting hard to buy just the sear alone and you may have to buy the kit.
Results vary because of minor differences in tolerances/dimensions in Ruger firearms, but usually I end up with a 3# trigger. One of them resulted in 4 1/4# and one resulted in 2#, but usually 3#.
Side by side comparing factory sear to V sear, the V sear has a different sear angle.

 

[Mobuck]

I'd go with the VQ 'kit' if you're determined to swap parts.
With a pistol like that, accuracy is basically limited to ammo performance and shooter capability. :whistle:

 

[eveled]

I’m also in the leave it alone camp. Especially because it was your Grandfather’s.

10” ones are pretty scarce. It’s a nice gun.

 

[BigPapa53]

Mine was born as a 10". The swivel stud was on it when I bought it. Still all stock except the barrel bob, the RDS, and the grips.

 

[TestEngineer]

The only thing my mk2 needed for "improvement" was a reduction in the trigger pretravel. Overtravel was fine, even though the target triggers have a screw to reduce it.

I had already installed an adjustable Volquartsen trigger in my mk3 and found that there was no need to have adjustments after it was set up right. So I chose to keep the original mk2 trigger installed and added a pin to remove the pretravel. I simply filed down the pin until I had reliable resets. This approach was less expensive, looks better, and works every bit as good as the aftermarket triggers. It was kind of fun to do also, which is cool - because I enjoy tinkering with my guns.