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Single-Sixer
Not sure if you guys would be interested in a project I just completed 2 nights ago.
A couple of weeks ago I did the unspeakable act of buying something I knew I shouldn't!
An Auction place on the net had a Mark II target pistol & nobody was bidding on it....it was darn ugly! I guess someone tried to take off all the blue on a blued gun, probably thinking it would look like SS.
Why I placed a bid I do not know but it became mine!!!. "Too Much" For such an ulgy duck!
Well first off, Yes it was ugly but on my way home from from my FFL agent getting it transfered to me, I took it to the range & put about 36 shots off hand into a 4 " bull at 25yds,,,,, I don't think I ever did that before.
Well It became my project gun:
I decide that since my funds for this project would be limited ( read none) . There would be no sending it out for a blue job so since I have the knowledge in the old arts of gunbuilding( 18th C style), I went ahead and did a "rust blue" on it. Yes it was a lot more work but it was all my own time.
It came out pretty good but the barrel is obviously a different type steel then the receiver. The rusting took place at different levels and show a slightly different blue color.
Before Blueing the barrel, I spent a lot of time de-leading the bore ( don't think it was ever cleaned) & it was shot a lot! I noticed the muzzle had a dent in the crown and also a gouge inside the bore at that point.
Almost like someone put a screw in it at some point in time. The darn gun shot great when I got it but that gouge really bugged me. So I took it across the street to my good friend who is a machinist. I asked him to face off the barrel to a recessed target muzzle. The recess being deep enough to get rid of the gouge in the rifling Then put a 60 deg crown on the inside face of the rifling.
Unfortunately I had to order 2- $2.00 parts from Ruger ( Safety Detent Spring & Ball) which ended up costing me $15 with shipping & I ordered 3 Blast shields from Bruce Patza ( one for each of my Ruger Marks) Great price at 3 for $10!
& I rebuilt the rear sight that was really a mess but I was able to salvage all the parts.
I just touched up blued the frame since it only had a few scratches.
Put in my last custom ATM trigger ($3.25) From Numrich and got it all working 2 nights ago. It is at about 43 oz trigger pull.
Now just to re-sight it in and see how it now shoots. I removed every little piece from this gun & got it all back & working ( I'm pretty happy about that). I ran a few CB longs thru it tonight in my yard to see where the reset sigts ended up and they aren't very far off at 15 yds. At least I won't be too surprised the next trip to the range.
Anyway here are some before & after photos: Hope you will see a difference
A couple of weeks ago I did the unspeakable act of buying something I knew I shouldn't!
An Auction place on the net had a Mark II target pistol & nobody was bidding on it....it was darn ugly! I guess someone tried to take off all the blue on a blued gun, probably thinking it would look like SS.
Why I placed a bid I do not know but it became mine!!!. "Too Much" For such an ulgy duck!
Well first off, Yes it was ugly but on my way home from from my FFL agent getting it transfered to me, I took it to the range & put about 36 shots off hand into a 4 " bull at 25yds,,,,, I don't think I ever did that before.
Well It became my project gun:
I decide that since my funds for this project would be limited ( read none) . There would be no sending it out for a blue job so since I have the knowledge in the old arts of gunbuilding( 18th C style), I went ahead and did a "rust blue" on it. Yes it was a lot more work but it was all my own time.
It came out pretty good but the barrel is obviously a different type steel then the receiver. The rusting took place at different levels and show a slightly different blue color.
Before Blueing the barrel, I spent a lot of time de-leading the bore ( don't think it was ever cleaned) & it was shot a lot! I noticed the muzzle had a dent in the crown and also a gouge inside the bore at that point.
Almost like someone put a screw in it at some point in time. The darn gun shot great when I got it but that gouge really bugged me. So I took it across the street to my good friend who is a machinist. I asked him to face off the barrel to a recessed target muzzle. The recess being deep enough to get rid of the gouge in the rifling Then put a 60 deg crown on the inside face of the rifling.
Unfortunately I had to order 2- $2.00 parts from Ruger ( Safety Detent Spring & Ball) which ended up costing me $15 with shipping & I ordered 3 Blast shields from Bruce Patza ( one for each of my Ruger Marks) Great price at 3 for $10!
& I rebuilt the rear sight that was really a mess but I was able to salvage all the parts.
I just touched up blued the frame since it only had a few scratches.
Put in my last custom ATM trigger ($3.25) From Numrich and got it all working 2 nights ago. It is at about 43 oz trigger pull.
Now just to re-sight it in and see how it now shoots. I removed every little piece from this gun & got it all back & working ( I'm pretty happy about that). I ran a few CB longs thru it tonight in my yard to see where the reset sigts ended up and they aren't very far off at 15 yds. At least I won't be too surprised the next trip to the range.
Anyway here are some before & after photos: Hope you will see a difference
