Re: Ruger Mark III nightmare video
I know what happened.
But first the Mark III have unique characteristics. It takes more than a spoon full of brains to take one of these apart now especially when you do one incredibly stupid thing. He knows what he did, but he won't mention it. He slammed the magazine in backwards and on THIS model, that is it, game over. You have to stop and read on what to do. He didn't destroyed this pistol trying to disassemble it, he destroyed it trying to disassembled with the stuck mag.
Before we begin:
1. He bought it put together. I know the shop very well, if it goes together hard it gets sent back and fixed. He never mentions that it came apart hard. That gives us the first clue, what came apart easily, now doesn't fit? Errr. not possible.
2. We are well past a passive strip here. He is punching pins. He had a reason to do that.
3. The Mark III is a real disappointment. It has a sloppy chamber, so sloppy that is confounds its history for excellent suppression. Now there is a very distinctive chamber POP on every round fired. Nothing you can do to fix it except get a much better barrel and chamber.
4. The safety indicator is a POS and allows for more crap into the chamber area.
5. Next is a real issue, no longer will the MARK III allow for cycling when the mag is out, ZERO. Nor can you drop the hammer with the mag out. Now those that know the MARKS will remember reassemble trigger pull to allow the hammer to drop for the final back strap spring plunger placement.
6. That same cycling lock out cooks the mag dropping free when released. In other words, every earlier model allows for the mag to either fall to the ground when released or at least partially eject out enough to easily grab. I've seen IIIs that hardly budge when released.
7. But that is not what happened here. The reverse mag is end game. Without a special tool, its 20 minutes.
So...here you go, what follows is what happened and what he SHOULD have read.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=ruger+mark+iii+magazine+backwards+stuck
BTW - Two q-tips and one .22 snake and this and your done, PLUS the extra pieces END the mag drop and the cycling issue:
http://www.majesticarms.com/id10.html
