Learnt something today.

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Pond James Pond

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As some may know, I am selling my Ruger MkIII Target. It's going on commission sale on Tuesday. When that is done, it is technically no longer mine, even if no one has bought it yet.

I like the gun, but I've rarely shot it over the last year. It was mostly for mini competitions and I've been having increasingly less time for those, also. I will miss it though.

Still I consoled myself with the fact that it was the only one of my guns that was unreliable. It would FTE or stovepipe at least a couple of times every hundred. I took it out today for a farewell shoot and ran 100 rounds through it. Today I must have had about 15-20 jams in that 100. :(

I thought to myself: "Ye gods!! I can't sell the gun like this!!" So I started thinking it through and decided the recoil spring was perhaps a bit strong, closing the bolt before the cases had time to eject. Then I remembered all the stories about limp-wristing.

Surely not on a .22!! My Glock never had a problem. My CZ has been fine! How could I limp-wrist a .22?!

Well, I got about the firmest grip I could muster, and ran through a mag: flawless. And another. All this time and it has been me, not the gun. :o

I must say, it gave me pause to think about the sale, but I think mentally I am ready to say goodbye and give a VZ58 a home instead.

Anyway I applied the same approach to my SP-01 and follow-ups were so much neater and I could shoot at 7yds about 2 rounds a second at a steady rhythm and I got a nice ragged hole.

I may have learnt this important lesson about shooting form late in the day, too late to go back and fully enjoy my MkIII the way I should have, but it has been a very useful lesson all the same!!
 
As was mentioned in another thread when you're ready for a Ruger Mark something there will undoubtedly be one around.

I've got a Mark II and never thought about buying it new because there are a lot of nice used ones around and I saved some money.

So you'll probably come back to the Ruger someday and there will probably be one waiting for you.

You're one of the few exceptions to Cheapshooter's rule of selling firearm's (which is don't) so tell us when you've decided what your next gun will be.
 
My MKII(1986) is the most accurate pistol I own. It's been shot a billiontrillion times and it shows.

I've been wanting a new all metal MK series pistol for a few years, but just can't invest in something I can't find ammo for.:confused:
 
I'm a big guy with strongish hands do to the type of work I do and never have had a limp wrist issue . How ever it was not to long ago , I to realized if I grip the gun REAL tight my hand gun shooting improved in just about every way . My POI changed but a simple trigger finger adjustment fixed that . FWIW I also learned recently that it's the exact opposite when it comes to rifles .
 
Just out of interest is it possible that .22s are actually more prone to limp-wristing or less? Or are they no more so than any other calibre.

On the one hand my MkIII is quite heavy for such a small calibre so the gun barely flips after firing. On the other hand, that relatively weak calibre has to move quite a bit of metal and the spring is by no means weak.

Perhaps a slightly lighter grip on the gun (door-handle grip) would make the difference between that case's rearward motion cycling the gun and just falling short.

For example, I can't imagine a DE .50AE would fail to cycle if one's grip was light, in the same way it wouldn't fail to give you a bloody nose.
 
A too firm grip can be as bad as a limp wrist or grip at times.

There's a fine line and each shooter has the obligation to find it on their own.
 
Mk. III LCI

Best thing to solve issues with Ruger Mk. III's?

Get rid of the loaded chamber indicator, once that abomination is gone, your feeding issues will also go away.
 
I don't think I've ever seen someone limpwrist a Ruger Mk series pistol. I guess it could happen.
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It didn't malfunction when I was gripping the gun firmly. That makes limp-writing the most likely culprit.
It had never happened on my Glock, but there you go...
 
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