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Got one coming in next week. 6 7/8” SS slab side. Hope it’s a shooter. Price was right.
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I've got one of those, it's a great shooter.
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Think he means this one. First year 4 digit, had a Clark trigger group installed and it is sweet.
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Yep, hes right. I have one just like it and yes, its a hell of a shooter.
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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Yes on the SS Slabside. It has the factory trigger as far as I know so that will be the first order of business. Second order will be to decide to keep it open sites or scope/red dot.
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They are nice pistols. I like the looks of the slab side and they are very accurate, just like any of the mkII rugers. Deciding on whether you are going to run irons, scope or red dot is something I had to decide too. I tried all of those options and then later decided to keep the red dot on my other mkII that is slightly quicker handling for bowling pin shoots. The longer heavier barrel coupled with the scope and mount make it (the slab side) heavier than I liked: I keep the bushnell TRS25 on my lighter MKII and use it for our rimfire open class as well as bowling pin matches. It works like a champ. The slab side, I shoot irons only now:
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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I’m sure the new pistols are great. But it will be hard to beat any of the Mark 2’s. You will be happy with your purchase. Hasbeen
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The slab side barrel profile has always looked good to my eye. Never owned one... I need to fix that.
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Yes on the SS Slabside. It has the factory trigger as far as I know so that will be the first order of business. Second order will be to decide to keep it open sites or scope/red dot. If they have everything that came with it from the factory, optics are not a problem. The SS competition slab side came with a base and mount screws. As far as I know it was the only MKII model drilled and tapped at the factory.
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Yes on the SS Slabside. It has the factory trigger as far as I know so that will be the first order of business. Second order will be to decide to keep it open sites or scope/red dot. If they have everything that came with it from the factory, optics are not a problem. The SS competition slab side came with a base and mount screws. As far as I know it was the only MKII model drilled and tapped at the factory. The later Government models were drilled and tapped. Hasbeen
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JimHinSTL: I hope you enjoy your new "slab-side" as much as I do mine. I also prefer the stainless steel models in all my MK series of Ruger pistols. I do a lot of Ground Squirrel shooting and have red dot sights on the MK pistols I shoot/Hunt with. I may have measured wrong but my on-line and hard copy inventories show that I listed my MK-II slab side pistol as having a 6 1/2" barrel. I better double check that. I bought that one used some time back and again may have miss-measured. Last summer I did buy a 10" heavy barreled Ruger MK-II but have not fired this blued model to date. Again enjoy to the max. Hold into the wind VarmintGuy
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Yes on the SS Slabside. It has the factory trigger as far as I know so that will be the first order of business. Second order will be to decide to keep it open sites or scope/red dot. If they have everything that came with it from the factory, optics are not a problem. The SS competition slab side came with a base and mount screws. As far as I know it was the only MKII model drilled and tapped at the factory. The later Government models were drilled and tapped. Hasbeen Missed that, I did some digging and found that in 2004-2005 all adjustable sight models were in fact drilled and tapped. Starting with #225-00000 and some 20,000 in all models were produced. Still up to that point the competition model was the only one.
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They are nice pistols. I like the looks of the slab side and they are very accurate, just like any of the mkII rugers. Deciding on whether you are going to run irons, scope or red dot is something I had to decide too. I tried all of those options and then later decided to keep the red dot on my other mkII that is slightly quicker handling for bowling pin shoots. The longer heavier barrel coupled with the scope and mount make it (the slab side) heavier than I liked: I keep the bushnell TRS25 on my lighter MKII and use it for our rimfire open class as well as bowling pin matches. It works like a champ. The slab side, I shoot irons only now: Really like those rose wood or whatever grips on that slab side. Mine is coming with a pac-Meyer set.
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They are nice pistols. I like the looks of the slab side and they are very accurate, just like any of the mkII rugers. Deciding on whether you are going to run irons, scope or red dot is something I had to decide too. I tried all of those options and then later decided to keep the red dot on my other mkII that is slightly quicker handling for bowling pin shoots. The longer heavier barrel coupled with the scope and mount make it (the slab side) heavier than I liked: I keep the bushnell TRS25 on my lighter MKII and use it for our rimfire open class as well as bowling pin matches. It works like a champ. The slab side, I shoot irons only now: Really like those rose wood or whatever grips on that slab side. Mine is coming with a pac-Meyer set. Yeah, I believe that is the way they came from the factory.. Nice pistols. I've sold all but the 2 shown in the pics above. Had a few beautiful MkII's, but these are my favorites...
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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Those slabsides look pretty nice. Had a 10" mark ii years ago that shot like a rifle. Got the 678 target tapered now. Plain blued. Has excellent balance. Shoots good all stock. But I wouldn't mind some fiber optic sights and some rubber grips with the finger grooves. The trigger doesn't bother me.
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I've got the blued version, topped with a red-dot sight and LH Eagle grips.. Very, very accurate - in fact, that's what I take for squirrel hunting.. I see a head - and next thing the body's on the ground..
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Picked it up today but it just has the scope rail on it and the open sites are still in a bag. No filler screws came with it so I called Ruger just moments ago and the nice lady is mailing me some as I type. I plan on shooting it open sites at first and if I decide to put optics on it I’ll swap it all back out again. What I really want now is a set of the factory grips with thumb rest. I’ll post some want to buy ads in a few places and poke around eBay.
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Those grips might still be available from Ruger. As far as the scope base if you check with Ruger the proper one should mount without removing the rear sight.
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The other issue I have is the rear site does not want to slide into the dovetail all the way. I would prefer to push it in with a site tool but may have to tap it in place with something.
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