I cut my teeth on my dads 1959 Mark 1 Ruger target model. That pistol is more accurate than I could shoot it. I was 8 years old and I could hit birds in trees. It was not hard to take apart. The assembly was a pain unless you turned the gun upside down and all around. My biggest complaint was getting a sliced up bloody thumb from reloading the magazines. No neat little plastic loading tools like came out in the 1980's.