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Just bought one of these Friday after reading this post ! It was on sale for $279.99 on Friday and Saturday for the blued version. Stainless was $319.99.
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how easy is the buckmark to break down for complete cleaning? the ruger is somewhat complicated and every time i do it i feel like a monkey screwing a coconut. my ruger seems to gum up easily too.
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Here's a pic of my pin gun in retirement. It was topped with a Tasco red dot and was fed Win Super-X almost exclusively. The gunsmith who did the comp must have used red loctite on the front mount screw since I cannot break it loose. As a result, it has never been fully disassembled in tens of thousands of rounds. Still runs like a champ! The last one I bought was a standard model. If memory serves me correctly, it was $150 on sale with a $50 rebate from Browning.
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My Ruger gets the BoreSnake treatment and an occasional dosing with Gunscrubber, followed by a squirt of Break-Free in its innards. Runs fine, once I get that tricky first round loaded straight. Pretty good pistol for $250, actually.
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how easy is the buckmark to break down for complete cleaning? the ruger is somewhat complicated and every time i do it i feel like a monkey screwing a coconut. my ruger seems to gum up easily too. That's weird. I can have my ruger apart in 3 seconds. Clean it in 2 minutes and have it back together again... Alright, I just cleaned mine since I had a bowling pin shoot yesterday. It wasn't real dirty, but wanted to time myself just to be sure I'm not smoking crack. My numbers were off a bit: 9 seconds to disassemble and 4 minutes and 19 seconds total time to clean it and re-assemble.
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I try to stick with the basics, they do so well. Nothing fancy mind you, just plain jane will get it done with style. You want to see an animal drop right now? Shoot him in the ear hole. BSA MAGA
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Don't forget to look at the Ruger SR22
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how easy is the buckmark to break down for complete cleaning? the ruger is somewhat complicated and every time i do it i feel like a monkey screwing a coconut. my ruger seems to gum up easily too. That's weird. I can have my ruger apart in 3 seconds. Clean it in 2 minutes and have it back together again... Alright, I just cleaned mine since I had a bowling pin shoot yesterday. It wasn't real dirty, but wanted to time myself just to be sure I'm not smoking crack. My numbers were off a bit: 9 seconds to disassemble and 4 minutes and 19 seconds total time to clean it and re-assemble. you need to show me how to do it then.
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Late to this talk. I hate Ruger. Its the one I'd buy though, many more aftermarket things available for it for sure. Thats a big reason to me.
Plus the ones we bought way before Bill screwed us, are extremely accurate.
By that I mean a slabside i have somewhere in the safe will shoot wiht standard velocity, under an inch for 10 shots at 50 yards..
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Late to this talk. I hate Ruger. Its the one I'd buy though, many more aftermarket things available for it for sure. Thats a big reason to me.
Plus the ones we bought way before Bill screwed us, are extremely accurate.
By that I mean a slabside i have somewhere in the safe will shoot wiht standard velocity, under an inch for 10 shots at 50 yards.. I have a Mark III competition (slab side) that will manage 1/2 inch groups at 25 yards with a scope off a rest. A new gun this year. I shoot the stock trigger and have all the lawyer features that shipped with the gun. call me lazy? But for those who care, all the legal crap can be removed and replaced. I believe this gun was designed by Bill Ruger and the standard version was his first product. The lawyers and some commie states screwed up the gun. Bill may have passed prior to the MkIII. Dont know, what I do know- It is an EASY fix to get back to a MkII featured gun. There was some improvement in the magazine release. Not the block, that can be backed out. The MkIII fluted hunter is a really cool looking gun if anyone cares about style.
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Shoot both if you can before buying. I had 3 different models of Ruger before I got a Buckmark. I never tried the 22/45. Many prefer the Ruger.
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Mastered the Ruger disasembly as a kid. Like the 6 7/8" tapered bull bbl the best. Ideally get a Mk2 and have it D&T, Volq trigger stuff.
I had a Mk1, minty. Let my cuz buy it.......as my old HS Sharpshooter came back up for sale. That thing was wicked.
But my eyes got worse, so it went bye bye.
TC Super 14 scoped proly my next tree rat weapon.
Have shot other HS and the Sharpshooter just felt the best to me (and looked best). I do have a fond spot for two of my dad's .22 handguns..........the Colt Match Target Woodsman 6" and the Don Nygord 1911 with Kart slide.
If laser can fix my eyes maybe I'll run those down the road. Just put a red dot on my TC .223...........groundhogs in 2 weeks maybe.
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Liked my Buckmark reg with 5 1/2" bbl. Sold it to a bud that shot the sheite out of it, poured ammo through it for yrs, and it ran like a champ.
Like the slab side regular, and the old grip frame. Think a target model with overtravel and adj sear engagement, with the field bbl on it, would be cool. But piecing together one, at today's Buckmark prices............no thanks.
Pops has the 14", and a target 5.5
Rather have the 10" Varmint.....(saw one a few yrs back, dad's buddy scored it cheap- shoulda never told him to look for one LOL).
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i was trying to find a 10 inch varmint when i settled for 5.5 field model. it has served well. the 10's had been sold out and unavailable.
kept a ruger mark2 as a truck gun for years. a lot of vermin fell to that pistol.
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I have a 22/45 Ruger slab-sided bull barrel, and it was the fixed-sight model that sold for less than 200 bucks. I spent 30 dollars to buy adjustable sights from Ruger, because having to shoot different brands of 22lr (availability) doesn't work for fixed sights... I have shot the buckmark at the range (a friend's) and thought it was a great gun. I really think they are on a "par" with one another. I agree that you couldn't go wrong with either.
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The Davidson's "Great Eight" was a nice one. Old style 22/45 frame.
Hated the old frame. Wish I'd have kept it now (for the swap).
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i was trying to find a 10 inch varmint when i settled for 5.5 field model. it has served well. the 10's had been sold out and unavailable.
kept a ruger mark2 as a truck gun for years. a lot of vermin fell to that pistol. I could get my dad's 14" and have it cut down.......... he has a 5.5 too. I'd like that w the reg field bbl. But I dumped my HS Sharpshooter. Hate to admit it, but looks my .22 pistol stuff from now on needs optics. Thought about a new bbl for the HS (man it shot great).........but the classic look of the old gal.......just couldnt stomach putting an optic on her. So sold her for decent profit.
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Just shot mine yesterday morning, the Ruger fed everything fine, the Buckmark coughed on some old ammo... but the funny thing was my S&W 41 was choking on several different flavors of ammo.
Either the Ruger or the Buckmark will serve just fine for almost any use.
I prefer Crimson Trace grips on the Ruger...
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