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My 41 likes the Federal Gold Medal so I use the less expensive equivalent ~ Federal Target ( 714 on the end of the box). According to Federal, it is the exact same formula as Gold Medal. I don't know if they make the 714 any more cause I bought many 1,000's of rounds years ago and still have a lot l...

Bullseye wrote:The best red dot scope for your pistol in my book is an Ultra Dot.

What he said!

Try cleaning the chamber with a nylon bore brush bent into a 90 degree angle. Clean the chamber out every magazine or two. Clean the face of the chamber off with a tooth brush at the same time. I finally took this to my smith (life got in the way over the last four months or so...). He asked me if ...

Thanks. I guess I will go for the assembly.

Is the hammer spring difficult to change? I checked but I cannot find any instructions on how to do that...

Ok, I give up. First two mags went beautifully. Then it got prrgressively worse till I could only fire a round if I recycled by hand, so every other trigger pull it didn't work.
Now I will give it to my smith...
Thanks for all your help.

Well, I fianlly received the ejector springs from Ruger and installed one behind a new exact edge extractor. I figured I would change both since I had it apart anyway. Now to go back a little ways in time. When I ordered the springs and a few extra MKII hammer bushings the gentleman at Ruger asked m...

I've been over that area with a dentist pick but I will also check it again.

I understand your explanation clearly. I probably won't get to the range till Saturday but in the meantime I will order a new Extractor spring for it. Thanks. I will keep you informed.

Yeah, that question was in my mind also. I don't remember but I am pretty sure it was the old spring since that was in the instructions. I guess I will order some new springs from Ruger to be sure. But then again, the pistol has worked for the last 2,500 rounds up till now.... And I will check the n...

Take a sharpie marker and paint the extractor's surface. When dry, work the bolt back and forth several times. Inspect and look for worn spots in the marker ink, there's your high spots. Now why didn't I think of that? Great idea and it will make it MUCH simpler. Thanks. OK. I did what you suggeste...

I think I am making progress. After swapping a MKIII bolt for the MKII bolt, the MKII functioned perfectly every time, leaving good strong marks on some spent shells I used for this purpose. So the problem is not with any parts within the frame or barrel. Next I started swapping the individual compo...

OK. Gotcha! Thanks.

I thoroughly cleaned and brushed and tested the recoil spring today before my unsuccessful range trip. The wings looked good to me. I have a nagging feeling it is the firing pin even though I polished it today also. I will put that to rest in the morning when I swap out the pin with a new one... If ...

No, I kept the original bushing and pin... And now I am getting about 8 misfires to a magazine out of 10. I am also going to try the firing pin I have in my new MKIII in the MKII to see if there is any difference... I have a few empty shells to try it on so I don't have to travel to the range to tes...