Pretty Neat Find

[Boxhead]

I dropped by a somewhat recently opened second LGS (same owner). I found this piece priced at $295 on consignment. It is a pre-MK I with no writing on the nicely crowned short barrel. Deep high condition blue (reblue?), fabulous trigger and the great sights. I found some vintage wood grips from one of my grip boxes. I hope to get it out next week. I suspect it will be a shooter.

 

[Dan in MI]

295 all day long!

That is a nice find.

 

[kmoore]

I am guessing it was a great shooter, maybe even still.

 

[Watertender]

Looks like a Mark1 Bull Barrel that has been worked on. Is the serial number chewed up or is that just the picture?

 

[contender]

Great find at a great price!!!!!!!

What makes you think it's a "pre MK" gun?

 

[1gunsnotenough]

How about a pic of the end of the barrel. Just wondering if it's a factory barrel. And is it roll marked Mark I. Clark did a lot of MKIs with that rib on top of the gun. And I believe on his early guns he just reworked the factory trigger.

 

[6GUNSONLY]

Nice find. Looks like a Bo-Mar rib.

 

[Boxhead]

It is not marked "Mark" anything. The frame is marked "RUGER in large text followed by 22 CAL LONG RIFLE over AUTOMATIC PISTOL in smaller text. No markings on the barrel. SN is a clean 415xxx. For some reason my photos of the crown are not coming out well. The barrel OD is .873" and the end of the barrel is flat then at a bit over 1.178" OD it is recessed .040" then crowned at the bore.

 

[Dan in MI]

How about a pic of the end of the barrel. Just wondering if it's a factory barrel. And is it roll marked Mark I. Clark did a lot of MKIs with that rib on top of the gun. And I believe on his early guns he just reworked the factory trigger.

I was hoping you’d pop in. I wondered if it was a Clark.

 

[Watertender]

The serial number is a 1966 vintage and it falls in either a RST4 or RST6 block. I measured a Mark 1 bull barrel and I got 0.875" so it looks like a bull barrel was used on it. In any case you have a good shooter for the money.

 

[1gunsnotenough]

Here's a Clark MKII on GB with Rib. But looking where Clark barrel fits receiver it;s different.
https://www.gunbroker.com/item/1081269598

 

[crstrode]

Nice find. Looks like a Bo-Mar rib.

Very likely, considering it is marked as such . . .

 

[Boxhead]

Appreciate the info gents.

 

[chet15]

It is not marked "Mark" anything. The frame is marked "RUGER in large text followed by 22 CAL LONG RIFLE over AUTOMATIC PISTOL in smaller text. No markings on the barrel. SN is a clean 415xxx. For some reason my photos of the crown are not coming out well. The barrel OD is .873" and the end of the barrel is flat then at a bit over 1.178" OD it is recessed .040" then crowned at the bore.

Yeah, not a pre "MARK" since Standards and Mark I's were made at the same time beginning in 1951. If it doesn't say Mark I on the receiver, it was a standard model.
Chet15

 

[rugerguy]

yessir, what Chad said above and also if it was a 'Clark" ,Jim and now the descendants , usually mark "Clark" on the guns barrel , so a 'custom' build by about anyone back in the day using 'Douglas' barrels ( we did) and any lower frame that they had, and even other BIG names marked the guns "custom" work in some way,so bottom line should be a great shooter but I still recall our friend Brian, the Sgt, from Willoughby, Oh., that shot one of the early RST-4s in a match competition as a "try out" ( Prove a point) and he scored a 288 out of 300 with a "boxed" factory gun,,,soooo its still in the hands of a capable shooter ( or as we used to do /use , a Ransome rest.....)