SweetWilliam
Buckeye
My Mark111 and me have been at each other's throats since i brought her home about 4yrs ago. It has always been a pain in the ass to disassemble and way harder to reassemble. In those 4yrs I have bent both the sear spring stop and the sear pivot pin, no idea how the pivot pin bent. But I replaced both. Plus I marred up the back of the frame pretty bad taking the main spring in and out. I've read stories on how others Mark111's come apart so easy that they practically take themselves apart. I wish I would have gotten one of those, lol.
Well let's just say I hated taking it apart so bad that I quit doing it. But the big dummy that I am and my OCD on having clean firearms plus I bought a hammer strut support from TomV on the forum I figured I might as well give it a go and strip the whole thing down for a good cleaning.
Everything went good except I bent the hell out of the magazine disconnector spring trying to reinstall it. Don't ask!
So I figured I would just buy a Voquartsen target kit with the SS trigger for a Mark11 and eliminate the magazine disconnector. So I got the parts and installed them. Pretty much it went together fairly easy. So it's back together and I'm adjusting the trigger to where I want it when all of a sudden the bolt feels funny and the trigger won't work. Here the hammer pivot pin backed out of its hole.
So I disassemble again and find that my Ruger wooden grips have a chunk missing allowing the pin to back out. WTF!
So the only way I can take her back apart to get the pin back in place is to pull the pin out with pliers because the bolt locked up. So I do that and put it back together and throw my factory plastic grips on. Well I get the trigger feeling pretty good and I'm playing with it when I realize my safety won't engage, again WTF!
So let's just say I'm getting pissed. Back apart again and again and again, probably 8/10 times. Here it's the notch on the safety isn't big enough to grab the Voquartsen sear. Out comes the file. After 3 or 4 more times of disassembly and file work I got it to work. IMO I removed quite a bit.
But now I have a nice shooting Mark111 that seams to have loosened up a bit and I can fully disassemble in my sleep blind folded. The only thing is the back of the frame is still marred. I was thinking about having it creakoted olive drab and leave the barrel blued.
And I contacted Ruger about my grips and the are sending me a new set, free of charge.
Well let's just say I hated taking it apart so bad that I quit doing it. But the big dummy that I am and my OCD on having clean firearms plus I bought a hammer strut support from TomV on the forum I figured I might as well give it a go and strip the whole thing down for a good cleaning.
Everything went good except I bent the hell out of the magazine disconnector spring trying to reinstall it. Don't ask!
So I figured I would just buy a Voquartsen target kit with the SS trigger for a Mark11 and eliminate the magazine disconnector. So I got the parts and installed them. Pretty much it went together fairly easy. So it's back together and I'm adjusting the trigger to where I want it when all of a sudden the bolt feels funny and the trigger won't work. Here the hammer pivot pin backed out of its hole.
So I disassemble again and find that my Ruger wooden grips have a chunk missing allowing the pin to back out. WTF!
So the only way I can take her back apart to get the pin back in place is to pull the pin out with pliers because the bolt locked up. So I do that and put it back together and throw my factory plastic grips on. Well I get the trigger feeling pretty good and I'm playing with it when I realize my safety won't engage, again WTF!
So let's just say I'm getting pissed. Back apart again and again and again, probably 8/10 times. Here it's the notch on the safety isn't big enough to grab the Voquartsen sear. Out comes the file. After 3 or 4 more times of disassembly and file work I got it to work. IMO I removed quite a bit.
But now I have a nice shooting Mark111 that seams to have loosened up a bit and I can fully disassemble in my sleep blind folded. The only thing is the back of the frame is still marred. I was thinking about having it creakoted olive drab and leave the barrel blued.
And I contacted Ruger about my grips and the are sending me a new set, free of charge.
