MK III 22/45 firing pin spring?

chuck_s · Post by **chuck_s** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 6:41 pm

How necessary is the firing pin spring in the MkIII 22/25 pistol?

I ask because I'm a decades-long owner of a circa 1950 Ruger Automatic and having cleaned it hundreds of times never found such a spring in it. I won this in a poker game in college and it runs flawlessly without a firing spring.

Any reason I can't leave the firing pin spring out of the 22/45 the next time I clean it?

-- Chuck

Post by **Bullseye** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 6:57 pm

The firing pin return spring is there to prevent slam fires. Your early 1950 Standard may have the a different, older style, firing pin than the newer models of today, which is why you don't see a spring.

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