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Here is an update to the saga that took place a week and a half ago. Following my last posting, I sent an email to Nic and Scott at Volquartsen describing the problems that I was having and I sent along the link to this forum entry, in order for the whole history to be presented. I followed up with ...

I have the metal frame Mark III. You bring up a good point about the disconnector travel, and wondering whether the disconnector tab was shortened at the factory. Indeed the disconnector travel is limited and a shortened tab would account for what I'm seeing. After returning to the original sear and...

I took a couple of pictures. http://www.guntalk-online.com/images/sear_compare2.jpg http://www.guntalk-online.com/images/sear_compare3.jpg The VQ sear is on the left and the factory sear is on the right. I have both sears on a sear pin. I lined up the sear face edge together since that edge will be ...

In order to further troubleshoot this problem, I reverted back to the factory trigger from VQ Target trigger and re-installed the factory sear from VQ sear, keeping the Ruger hammer and Clark hammer bushing (what else could I do). With the factory trigger reinstalled first, the VQ sear was still not...

The overtravel and pretravel screws are not set inappropriately. Nor is the thumb safety engaged. With the thumb safety set to 'F', I'm able to push the sear forward from behind the handle with small allen wrench. This shows that the Safety is not preventing the sear from going forward if the discon...

Thank you Bullseye. I do have the VQ trigger return spring and plunger installed along with the VQ trigger. I was able to tap the Clark Bushing into the hammer so that the bushing is touching the right side of the hammer, and the bushing sticks out about 1/16" on the left side. The problem still exi...

The quantity and quality of information on this forum encouraged me to attempt an upgrade to my newly acquired Mark III. I purchased the Volquartsen Target Trigger, Volquartsen Sear, and Clark Ruger Mark II oversized hammer pin and hammer bushing (CLK-515). After using the Detailed Internal Frame Pa...