WoW...Accurizing kit!!!

[chadflys]

Didn't know if I could really tell a significant difference by feel alone of trigger weight reduction. What was nice though was all the play could be adjusted out and not feel so squishy. Went to range yesterday for the first time, took a couple hundred rounds to get comfortable and when I left I relaxed and tested myself and shot 10 rounds at 45 feet from a standing double hand hold position and all 10 rounds were in a group of ever so slightly less than 2.5 in. For me thats pretty good when before the trigger mod I have not even been able to keep 10 rounds inside of 7in from 45 ft. Maybe I was lucky.....Whatever the case I've set the bar high for myself to keep'm that tight! This is a fun challenge! The entire trigger job too took me between 20-30 min to complete THANKS to the helpful/informative reading on the forum. Not to bad either!!!

Chad

[bearandoldman]

Chad, how did you like your snow the other day, we get that in Michigan all the time. If it ever gets warm here again, Bear and I are going to the range so this oldman can shoot a new gun.

[chadflys]

Didn't like it. Don't really like it unless I'm wearing skiis. Now its 60 degrees plus and mushy. I'm a pilot and the Memphis Airport or DOT for that matter dealing with snow and ice here is a comical disaster. DTW airport on the other hand handles it well. I was based in Detroit for 4 years. Didn't live there though. Couldn't stand the cold or the high rent.

Chad

[bearandoldman]

Didn't like it. Don't really like it unless I'm wearing skiis. Now its 60 degrees plus and mushy. I'm a pilot and the Memphis Airport or DOT for that matter dealing with snow and ice here is a comical disaster. DTW airport on the other hand handles it well. I was based in Detroit for 4 years. Didn't live there though. Couldn't stand the cold or the high rent.

Chad

Guess watching a snow removal crew in action down ther wopuld be like watching the Three Stooges and friends. Plus you can not afford to keep big snow removal equipment around if it is rarely use, just not cost efficient. Keeping airport runways and taxi strips clean in Detroit, Chicago and Denver must be a real effort. Did you ever fly into MBS?

[greener]

Len, we in the South don't get a lot of practice with the white stuff. The last snow before Sunday of any consequence was about 4" in 2005 and about 12" in 2002. You get out of practice handling that stuff. We got 6-10" Sunday. It shut down nearly everything. The folks do not get as much practice as you Michiganders. I left all my snow removal stuff with my son in Michigan where it might get some use when I moved.

[bearandoldman]

Len, we in the South don't get a lot of practice with the white stuff. The last snow before Sunday of any consequence was about 4" in 2005 and about 12" in 2002. You get out of practice handling that stuff. We got 6-10" Sunday. It shut down nearly everything. The folks do not get as much practice as you Michiganders. I left all my snow removal stuff with my son in Michigan where it might get some use when I moved.

You know, I could really get by without all that practice. 10" must damn near be your season average down there.. I'm getting too old to operate the manual snow thrower aka shovel. I have a hybrid Toro CCR Powerlite I built years ago when I was working as a service tech. Mine is probably he only one around with a a pumper carb on it, they came with a gravity feed float bowl carb, they run much better with the old style carb. They are a 16 inch I believe unit with a little 2 cycle motor on them but they will get the job done pretty well in 8 inches or less of snow they work great. Really works well in the really cold weather when we get the light fluffy snow. Any more than that and I call a friend with a plow, Hell $20.00 is better than a heart attack.

[Curmudgeon]

Didn't know if I could really tell a significant difference by feel alone of trigger weight reduction. What was nice though was all the play could be adjusted out and not feel so squishy. Went to range yesterday for the first time, took a couple hundred rounds to get comfortable and when I left I relaxed and tested myself and shot 10 rounds at 45 feet from a standing double hand hold position and all 10 rounds were in a group of ever so slightly less than 2.5 in. For me thats pretty good when before the trigger mod I have not even been able to keep 10 rounds inside of 7in from 45 ft. Maybe I was lucky.....Whatever the case I've set the bar high for myself to keep'm that tight! This is a fun challenge! The entire trigger job too took me between 20-30 min to complete THANKS to the helpful/informative reading on the forum. Not to bad either!!!

Chad

I did the whole VQ enchilada on my MKIII 22/45. The difference is amazing. Our local range is 15 yards, and I dropped targets from 3" day-glo dots to 1" dots. I have been self training with raising the front sight instead of lowering it on the target, and getting about one or two out of five shots in the one inch bull. (A decent group with an occasional WTH was that.)

I now see the target coming into the zone and squeeze one off (not that) rather than lowering the front sight, passing the mark and reversing movement.

The complete job took me longer than you. I work slow because I enjoy doing that kind of work, and I had never did a detailed strip before the upgrade. I'd recommend it for all MK series shooters.

I also did the VQ extractor because I thought it sounded like I was going to sooner or later from reading between the lines here. That 'Some' ammo that wouldn't eject all the time, has dwindled down to near zilch. I have shot Winchester, CCI's and Remington, etc. since installation.

Now if Wally World would get restocked for us cheap old retirees that lost our 401K's.

If I see any stimulus money, I'm going to upgrade the sights from Ruger adjustable to something special for the bull barrel. Does anyone know what I should consider?

[Georgezilla]

The VQ trigger and sear do make quite the difference. As far as the hammer and return plunger not so much. I'm going to check out the VQ disconnector and see if it makes a difference. If it doesn't then I figure it's just an extra disconnector.

Curmudgeon, I feel your pain when it comes to the ammo stock at Wally World. It's caused me to pretty much quit shooting .45. I'm startting to have quite the stock of .45acp brass though. About enough to warrant a Dillon

[greener]

Good job, Curmudgeon. Part of the fun of owning the Ruger erector sets is that you can (relatively) easily do the mods. Congrats.

[greener]

Curmudgeon, I feel your pain when it comes to the ammo stock at Wally World. It's caused me to pretty much quit shooting .45. I'm startting to have quite the stock of .45acp brass though. About enough to warrant a Dillon

I see you are falling into the reloading trap. Nice relaxing way to spend an evening or rainy afternoon. You will know that you are really hooked when you start collecting brass for calibers you don't own, just in case you decide to get one of those.

[bearandoldman]

Curmudgeon, I feel your pain when it comes to the ammo stock at Wally World. It's caused me to pretty much quit shooting .45. I'm startting to have quite the stock of .45acp brass though. About enough to warrant a Dillon

I see you are falling into the reloading trap. Nice relaxing way to spend an evening or rainy afternoon. You will know that you are really hooked when you start collecting brass for calibers you don't own, just in case you decide to get one of those.

Before the indoor range I belonged to closed, they used to let me just clean the floor when I left and take whatever with me, Once in a while the would give me a 5 gallon bucket to take home and sort. All i kept was the .45ACP and gave the rest to one of the guys at the gun shop who sold somee stuff at gun shows. Sure was always a lot of 9's, wish then I would have kept some of the .38 Special and .357 Magnums, but had no need for them at that time. Never had too many of the revolver specific cases, they are too easy to just dump in your hand and save.

[chadflys]

I'll try that (raising the sights technique) the next time I'm at the range. I do the opposite (raise then relax on the target). I get those WTH shots too....fairly often! I know sometimes its the cheap ammo, but most the time it me. I like blaiming it on the ammo though.

Chad

[Curmudgeon]

I get some of that cheap ammo too.

I really like raising to the target because it always in view and the entire raise is homing in on it. I'm only 150 rounds into the VQ setup, and planning to get even more experienced tomorrow. I am self teaching, some of these old Pharts around here might have better advice for you.

I've been going to the range AT LEAST once a week. This retirement thing is pretty nice.