I field stripped an SP101 last night. The DA trigger is horrible on it. When you first pull it back the cylinder begins to rotate (roughly 25%) then the action hangs up a little bit and you have to pull considerably harder to get it to continue then it rotates the rest of the way and fires. If you fire it slowly you can stay on target when the hammer drops but if you try to fire it in one motion it pulls way off target.
I lubed it up and when I went to put the trigger group back in I noticed that the group was etched with a 17. There is no 17 in the serial number that is on the frame. I always thought that the etched number was supposed to be the first 2 or last 2 digits in the serial number. Is this correct? Did Ruger get some parts swapped at the factory?
Now that it is oiled it is a little better but it still hangs up pretty good. I am probably going to have to find a smith to do an action job on it. I watched some videos on doing an action job on it. I can take it apart and put it back together but I do not feel comfortable smoothing the parts or diagnosing where it is hanging up.
I lubed it up and when I went to put the trigger group back in I noticed that the group was etched with a 17. There is no 17 in the serial number that is on the frame. I always thought that the etched number was supposed to be the first 2 or last 2 digits in the serial number. Is this correct? Did Ruger get some parts swapped at the factory?
Now that it is oiled it is a little better but it still hangs up pretty good. I am probably going to have to find a smith to do an action job on it. I watched some videos on doing an action job on it. I can take it apart and put it back together but I do not feel comfortable smoothing the parts or diagnosing where it is hanging up.