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Be sure to enter the NES/Pioneer Valley Arms February Giveaway ***Smith & Wesson SD9VE 9MM***
Finally got my hands on Mark III Hunter
- Thread starter jc9394
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With a silver housed red dot, I like the rail.
Nah! Jump in... Go slow, take pictures and enjoy the experience.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXe_Cv3QZaM
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It's all true, but most of it can be remedied. Get the majestic arms kit, for starters, and until then, just use the scrivener method to clean it... take the grip panels off, go outside with a can of gun scrubber and hose the shit out of it over a trash can or bucket, or something you don't care about... blast away until clean, run a boresnake through it, put a little lube in there, work the action, done. That's how I dealt with mine the whole time I had it, I never disassembled it once- because without the majestic kit in it, it is easily the worst gun ever
to field strip. I'd rather detail strip a 1911 before I took apart one of those ****ing rugers. My roommate back about 10 years ago had one and we'd go shooting, then clean guns afterwards.... I'd finish cleaning the rest of my guns before he got done with JUST his MKIII.
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-Mike
Wrong. Ruger changed something minor (this is a guess, I've never actually figured out what was changed) in the gun (without changing the model numbers) and then ruger legal dept. proceeded to throw a retardo child-like temper tantrum, told their distributors to stop selling it to MA dealers, and then even tried to get the state to take the guns off the EOPS roster. Thankfully EOPS/GCAB more or less told them to **** off (that they don't remove guns from the roster) the irony of that is absolutely incredible when you think about it, though. The on the ground reality is they could keep selling the guns here and the state would NEVER have noticed any difference or change. The "substantially similar" clause in the law likely would have covered anything they changed, but most manufacturers are too douche-like to take advantage of that clause.
ETA: Same thing also happened with the LC9 I think, I know several dealers still getting them in defiance of whatever rugers wishes are, either that or some of the distributors have a spine and ignored the edict from ruger on these guns.
-Mike
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It's all true, but most of it can be remedied. Get the majestic arms kit, for starters, and until then, just use the scrivener method to clean it... take the grip panels off, go outside with a can of gun scrubber and hose the shit out of it over a trash can or bucket, or something you don't care about... blast away until clean, run a boresnake through it, put a little lube in there, work the action, done. That's how I dealt with mine the whole time I had it, I never disassembled it once- because without the majestic kit in it, it is easily the worst gun ever
to field strip. I'd rather detail strip a 1911 before I took apart one of those ****ing rugers. My roommate back about 10 years ago had one and we'd go shooting, then clean guns afterwards.... I'd finish cleaning the rest of my guns before he got done with JUST his MKIII.
-Mike
One word, YES.
My WAG is that ruger made an engineering change that their legal department felt revoked the compliance status (eg, roster status, not CMR940 AG bullshit) of the gun, as it made the guns effectively "not exactly the same" as the guns they had tested and submitted for roster approval. I bet whatever they changed was not very significant though. This whole ruger MKxx/LC9 thing has been a huge misinformation shit show from the get go.
-Mike
It's sad that Ruger's legal dept. did that, and more so that they haven't rectified it. Maybe their profit margin is higher on the SR22 pistol?
I've talked to Ruger's legal dept a ton lately (trying to get my hands on a mk iii competition, which I FINALLY accomplished last week).
According to them, they have "planned" a "modification" to the trigger group. This change is NOT yet live in production models.
The models rolling off the line right now are IDENTICAL IN EVERY WAY to the ones that were tested for the EOPS list.
I had some random guy at Ammo Bunker try to tell me that they also changed some screw (from flathead to hex) but IDK about the validity of that claim.
According to them, they have "planned" a "modification" to the trigger group. This change is NOT yet live in production models.
The models rolling off the line right now are IDENTICAL IN EVERY WAY to the ones that were tested for the EOPS list.
I had some random guy at Ammo Bunker try to tell me that they also changed some screw (from flathead to hex) but IDK about the validity of that claim.
That's a beautiful gun. I bought the same model a few years back, except with 5.5" barrel. Santurri did a 3 lb trigger job, Volguartsen extractor, polished chamber, installed Majestic Arms kit and changed sights to all-black target. Now cleaning is a snap, and the gun is a do it all, including bullseye matches or just fine plinking or rapid-fire drills. The gun eats any ammo, including cheap high velocity. Wonderful gun to keep forever.
I really, really like the combination of brushed stainless and rosewood... But I'm contemplating the VQ target grip. I'll feel like SUCH a sellout.
Definitely looks better than my black Target model with Hogue grip.
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Pullman had a couple last time i was there.
Nice looking. Ive got the old one. It is a bitch to clean
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