Magazine safety when you have to constantly pull the trigger during disassembly was a great idea. Really like the need for rubber mallets as well. I'm never taking this thing apart again unless it's broken
Because of statements just like Luke's, you can't call this gun safe. What a waste of time. Too much jiggling, hammering and prayer, I hate you Ruger MkII .... but I do like my 22/45 Lite Mk IV. 50th Anniversery MkII for sale, piece of crap to maintain but lucky it has a good feel. I this came in kit form, ya;ll would be bankrupt, IMHO.
I've got my Mark III just few days ago. I viewed few videos and finally got the whole picture. There is no place for frustration, just a need for a solid knowledge on how this pistol is made. After that, it is very easy to perform the whole procedure. Thanks for a nice video !!!
Thanks for leaving out one MAJOR part of reassembly! You have to be holding the trigger rearward in order to have the mainspring housing return to it's proper position in the pisol. For convenience, I figured I would use this video. Thank god I didn't force it into place, assuming I was getting correct information from the manufacturer. Now lets hope that I didn't damage the hammer strut. Now I'm starting to get upset. I love Ruger and I love this pistol, but I mean come on.
Hope you didn’t do it.. Fun gun to shoot, but when it gets dirty it has failure to feeds, and stove pipes like a nightmare.... Which wouldn’t be a huge issue if it wasn’t an absolute bitch to clean.
I bought one for $120 years ago. It shoots great but when it comes to disassembly, it’s kind of a pile. Flip this, point here, pull that, spin around three times, pat you head and rub your belly. Great job ruger.
My girlfriends dad gave the gun in pieces, before you tube was born, I put it back together for him, not knowing nothing about it. He just gave me the gun at that point. Still own it. sits in a box all apart, this way I know my kids will never take it for a joy ride. better than any gun lock... LOL
Watch out, if someone breaks in its might take a while to assemble. Better off only just using a safety and having it under the mattress or something, night stands would be great spots for convenience Maybe have a pin code safe
My friend and I just started our first deep pour table. We had a bit of a spill, not too terrible. We were able to correct it. But then we ran out of epoxy before we hit the top edge. I appreciate the information to scuff up the edge before we get the next batch.
no problems huh? Every thing always go smooth as silk.This video reminds me of a Big Mac commercial, they look great on T.V. then you buy one and what a mess. Here is an idea, show us a video addressing real problems like why the main spring housing keeps pulling out when i try to shut the latch! I agree that the gun works good but stop with the commercial and go SLOW. You know people are having problems ,tell us in more detail why
It’s the hammer in the way, swing it up insert pin then swing it down to catch the lever. I usually watch this video 4 times to get this back together. I imagine it’s like a waltz and I can’t dance either.
I have watched people on RUclips put these back together with ease, as if it's nothing. Sometimes I can get my Mark iii back together in an hour and sometimes it takes hours. It is unfair to attack people's intelligence b/c they struggle reassembling this gun. I have a BS, MS, and doctorate, graduated with honors, been around guns all my life. I actually find field stripping my 1911 a satisfying, pleasurable experience. Ruger has at least a marketing problem, if not a technical problem.
Great video for people who already are familiar with the gun (and most likely have already figured out how to do this). Gotta look elsewhere for a video by someone who can demonstrate this for someone new to the gun.
After almost a year of owning this pistol, I've finally figured out how to put it back together correctly every time. This video probably contains everything you need to put it back together, but fails to explain how, when and WHY it is critical to have the hammer and the strut in the correct positions. Plus, it goes way too fast. Diagrams and a troubleshooting video would be HUGELY helpful because there are too many steps where too things can go wrong. Very fun pistol to shoot though!
I have two mark III's. Today I just sat down and disassembled and reassembled until I got it right. It took about 3 cycles and now I feel fairly confident.
+David Warden I have owned two Mark II's and both weren't as bad as everyone say they are. The first one that I got was a target model and I practiced on disassembly and reassembly on it first. After about an hour of taking it apart and putting it back together, I was able to disassemble and then reassemble the pistol in 39 seconds total. Yes I said 39 SECONDS. X-military. That was including pulling back the bolt and dry firing it. This was all accomplished without the use of any tools (plastic hammer, paperclip, vice, etc.). Ruger makes very good guns, and if they are hard to take apart or put back together, either you are doing it wrong or the tolerances are spot on. Your life may depend upon you taking the time to clean your weapon. As they say, you take care of your gun and it will take of you.
Thanks for the vid been trying to put one together from I think the 60's sturm ruger and co been fighting it for an hr. The slide would not pull back, but the whole tilting the gun thing solved it. Thanks
As a side note, this pistol is incredible. It eats crappy bulk ammo without any problems. It's also a nail driver. It meets all of the standards that my other semi auto .22 caliber pistols cannot
Finally got mine back together after several attempts. There was some problem with the trigger out of the box - had to pull the trigger twice to fire the first round of each magazine I inserted. But I think I fixed the problem because it will now dry fire correctly. This gun is a curiosity to say the least!
Bought my 1st MKIII, only came here because- drumroll please- mainspring housing latch issues during reassembly. Congrats to all the savants who figured out how to do it yourself, but I am admittedly having issues. Once I figure out how to reassemble this pistol, I will not be taking it apart again. Ruger, you did a great job with this video, but it does not address my frustrations with your product. After a light skim of the comments, I will say I feel slightly better since I'm not the only one having this problem. I had assumed due to the popularity of this pistol, it would be slightly easier to take apart. Oh well..
I watched this video and a few others. After 9 hours, and trying the hammer in every possible position, the spring would not go in. Even if I could hammer it in, it comes back out when you turn the other portion so that it can snap into place. I could not reassemble it. WOW! Taking it to a gunsmith and then selling it. Learned my lesson about buying Ruger! (Yes, I know, they solved the problem with the Ruger 4 - but not spending another 9 hours on this. Ouch! Thanks Ruger!
Just finished ultrasonic clean and lube on my Ruger Mark II , am reassembled and ready to go. Not too bad for the first time field stripping this weapon. Between the manual and this video, it was fairly straight forward. I was not ready to take a hammer to disengage the barrel/receiver from the grip frame just yet. From what I've read it's not just a little tap. I'll let an armourer take that on. One note, I did spend about an hour to find the firing pin stop that fell out of the bolt.
I have had mine apart 2 times now and it is still hard. Just watch the video over and over and you will get it. I also pounded the barrel on and off again and again on my carpet. You will notice some wear points on a new gun. It helped me to take a razor knife and help wear it in at these points of binding.
After a few more views of this video, and better study of my manual, I've finally found where my frustration was coming from. I'm so glad the last instruction on this video covered the very problem I was having. No longer regretting my purchase, and looking forward to enjoying this firearm for many years to come.
You have no idea how simple this video my life has made. Now I can boldly go into the gun shop and buy one of these pistols, but I SWEAR that if I cant put it back together again, its going to break either, my door, my window, my tv, my cat, or my head. Please Lord have pity on me, and give me the wisdom in your kingdom to put together this piece of steel.
Great videos from Ruger! Nice and slow see, that's the way to do it, nice and slow.... line from a Bogart movie. This is the Ruger design that started it all, that is why it is different then all the rest. My MkIII Hunter is awesome. Worth the price.
I kept getting hung up on the reassembly because the hammer strut was caught up behind the cross pin. I think it would be worthwhile to include that piece of info. in your video. I see now from the other posts that I am not the first person to encounter this situation.
@RugerFirearms Very professional response to RUclips shenanigans. I just bought a mark 3, Ive never owned or fired a gun in my life, but these tech tips are very helpful. It looks complicated compared to other to other gun assembly's, but not impossible
I got a Ruger the other day. Took it to the range and fell in love with it. Yeah its a pain putting this together when I compare it to my Xd 9mm. I wouldn't buying a second model of this gun. It shoots that well.
There is a different video on the Ruger web site. This one is very good. You can ignore all the other DIY home made ones on RUclips, Ruger's video on the MKII, MKIII and MKIII 22/45 are the best, most complete, accurate and all you need. I can never remember all the steps so I have to watch the video every time. With the video it would be difficult to get right the first time.
@nuccten i have the same problem i love the gun but dissasembling took an hour with full blows of a rubber mallet and it is impossible to reasemble..... its like it was made to not be field striped
I can't get my mainspring assembly back in. Every part of the reassembly went great until that. I made sure the hammer is forward and the strut is hanging down, but the pin will not go through the holes. It was extremely tight coming out, and now I can't get it back in. Driving me crazy for three days. How do you get this pin back in when it's so tight it won't move at all?
tapped the mainspring housing into place until pin is protruding through barrel but can't get it back in all the way...may have to take to a gunsmith to get it back together. Any suggestions?
I love my Ruger Mark-iii fluted barrel, my only complaint with this video is how dirty the pistol is for the state of him taking it apart that far. I have owned this pistol going on four years and once you get the reassembly down you will be able to fully clean your Ruger Mark III in all the nooks and cranny's.
I have to agree, once you've learned to do do things in order it really is a piece of cake. I started with a brand new pistol and it was a bit stiff, now the I've stripped it 9 or 10 times I can strip and reassemble in minutes. Those that complain that it's difficult aren't paying attention or have a very short attention span. A great gun with an unjustified reputation for being hard to work on.
I took mine down the first time using instructions in owners manual. Wasn't that bad. Really wasn't that dirty considering the round count. Great shootout pistol. Eats clays all day at the 50 yard range.
@donharmon42 the reassembly of this .22 is so difficult because of all of the features included to keep people who dont follow safe firearm handling procedures from shooting themselves. That is all
Your company should give "Mr Edgar49" an award, a prize and maybe a job if he wants it. He has saved your asses on this gun. Anyone who has watched his video disassembly and reassemnbly has loved it and been relieved and not "thrown the gun out the window"!!!!
I was also doing my pre-use cleaning on the gun. Like I said, the trigger had to be held in the rearward position. These instructions are all correct except for that one CRUCIAL step. Verify by reading section 7 under the Reassembly instructions in the pistol's manual. I'm just glad that I read it before I bent or broke something while assuming I was getting correct information on here. My pisol was test fired 12/3/2009. Video posted in April 2009. Maybe reassembly changed in those 8 months...
When my MKIII is reassembled the bolt pulls back completely but doesn't close freely on it's own every time. Have to bump it closed with my hand. Gun hasn't been fired much, maybe 200 rounds and this is first time it's been disassembled per instructions on Utube. Drats
Such an incredibly accurate gun but my LORD the engineers were maniacal ! They fixed it. Finally, with the Mark 4. You can actually disassemble it AND reassemble w minimal cussing
I don't understand why so many people find this so difficult. It's actually fairly simple. And if it was a piece of crap like so many people claim, it wouldn't have been in production for so many decades with millions sold. It is one of the greatest rimfire pistols ever produced.
It depends on the pistol. The one I was given to clean WOULD NOT go back together. The spring on the bolt was keeping the pin from rising up and protruding through the top of the gun. Also, the pin that is supposed to protrude through the bolt was a beast to push through. I used a mallet as the video mentioned but I didn’t just have to tap on it, I had to hit it way harder than I was comfortable with. Finally it did push into place. I wanted to see why it was sticking so I pulled it back out and noticed a large scrape on its side where the paint was completely worn off (no doubt from me hitting it back together). It seems the quality control is lacking on these…
@@anenticingsquid9219 I gotcha. That's strange. I've never had a problem. I only own MKI and MKII's. Which do you have? And I agree with the quality control thing from several companies lately. Cheers.
glad i got my mark 2 target with the bull barrel in 83, wont need a mark3. so much safety, thats why ruger stamps the owners manual on the barrel. its a tool, bullets dont magically appear everytime you tilt the freakin thing. i didnt clean my pistol for the first time till 2010, dug out some belly button lint, and back to plinkin. just like a nylon 66, used it till the teflon bolt was droolin.
We bought a Ruger Target Model Mark III 22/45 in 2005 when we moved to Arizona and found out that they were made in Northern AZ. In the years since, we have fired the gun a dozen times and disassembled it to clean it approximately 6 times. Each time we have disassemble it we have had great difficulty with reassembly, including this time when again we had to search for videos on how to do it. It is the only Ruger we own among a large gun collection of Colt, Winchester, Glock, H&K, Kahr, S&W handguns and rifles, including a Springfield M-1 Garand and NO other firearms is as difficult to disassemble and reassemble. For 65 years Ruger had not sought to improve this design and shame on them. If someone wanted to give me a Ruger for free I would decline.
I just got a brand new Ruger Mark III Target in stainless steel. I shot it yesterday at about 1:00 PM. It was very accurate and awesome to shoot. I field stripped and cleaned it as soon as I got home from the range about 3:00 PM. I finally got it reassembled by 10:00 PM. That thing is indeed a bitch to reassemble. I cut my hand at some point on the mainspring housing, but man does that bright red blood look good on the stainless steel contrasting with those black grips and the Ruger logo.
You did leave out a part. I just got done reassembling mine for the first time and now I will go to a gun shop tomorrow and trade it in. Thank God I used Beretta and Sign pistols in the Navy. They never left out a step for feild stripping.
After I assemble it (took days to figure it out), why won't the slide pull back all the way? What am I doing wrong? Anybody want to but an almost new stainless Mark II competition piece?
I have a 22/45 Lite (the model with a yellow anodized barrel). I had problems like many others, but after analyzing problems and watching various RUclips posts, I thought that (1) the magazine/trigger interlock that requires the mag to be inserted to pull the trigger is a complication I do not need, and (2) The biggest problem was the fit of the barrel. Maybe the barrel was in the anodizing tank too long making the anodized surface a little to thick, I don't really know, but it took more than a light tap to disengage the barrel, and again to properly attach it back. I mean whacking away HARD 20-30 times. The first problem (mag/trigger interlock) is fixed by a bushing that is sold by Tandemkross and others. It is a little finicky install (I am fat fingered) but not out of the question, and only needs to be done once. The issue of barrel fit needing a hammer was to polish down the lug mentioned at 1:08-1:15 in this video. I polished a little at a time, both on the top, and a little under its lip (not easy but doable) until it fits very tightly but no longer needs my rubber hammer. Either of these modifications are likely to void any warranty regarding the gun, but being able to clean its innards will decrease the likelihood of problems in the first place. Now I can disassemble my gun and give its internals a good cleaning and reassemble it without much problem. The interlock bushing also allows the magazine to eject fully without having to pull it out. That's nice, but I didn't really do that to speed up magazine changes, just to take one of the easily overlooked complications out of reassembly.
It is possible you may not have gotten the barrel perfectly straight on the frame during reassembly. If the barrel is canted even slightly right or left of center, you could have something interfering with the bolt release mechanism. I had BIG problems getting my barrel correctly aligned the first time or two during reassembly, causing big time struggles getting the assembly bolt to feed through the receiver and bolt. Good luck.
If I may, Ruger; I love your guns,Mini 14, 10/22, even the 22/45. But this is the MOST frustrating field striping process i've ever done. Great gun still.
@@mikelockhart9114 Ah Ha !!! Ah Ha !!! After hours of messing with this, finally Bob Burnitt asked the question and Mike Lockhart answered it !!! And, I got this @#$% thing reassembled !!!!! 😀😀😀😀😀😀😀
@passngas2 Agreed. I wish I was able to find a Mark II but I couldn't so I had to settle on a new Mark III. Still a good pistol but installing/removing the mag is a pain. Makes it hard to remember all the steps that are unneeded.
I had my ruger mark 2 cents 1989 only clean it 2 time it never fail me fires all the time always put a drop of gun oil down barrel and on the trigger it works for me now i shoot the sr 22 & the 9e 9mm
The Ruger 22/45 is a sweet shooting gun, but field stripping it is hell. Im in serious need of a gun smith. I could not get the main spring back in correctly and ended up breaking the housing latch. If that wasen't enough, I drove a pin out thinking it was holding back the main spring. It turned out the sear and spring. Think I'm going back to smith and wesson.
May be easy to some...and that's great. However, the fact that Ruger would have produced this design is insane. Glad I watched these videos before making the mistake of actually buying one. SR22 it is.
+Аллан Чумак Do you mean inside the chamber? There is a "loaded gun" indicator on Mark III's. The rim of the .22 pushes the pivoting indicator outside of the gun, to let the owner know there is a live round in the chamber. When the chamber is empty, a spring closes the indicator flush with the outside of the gun.
OK, I figured out the problem that was vexing me. There is a tiny metal lever (hammer strut?) that swings up and down. it must be up when latching the "housing latch". That is what gives the housing latch that last second of tension when closing it.
maybe the hammer wasn't in the full forward position when you went to put the main spring housing pin back in? to get that in the full forward position which is necessary for complete reassembly you need to pull the trigger. not really sure. not doubting you just from my personal experience
(continuing): I really like shooting this gun. I had a Buckmark and like my Mk. iii better. Today I was going to go shoot again, thought I'd clean the Mk. iii first, and still haven't been able to get it back together. I've watched this video and others. Still can't figure out why. I'll get it eventually - but I would have rather shot the gun today than struggled with reassembling it. A gun that causes me to miss opportunities to shoot is feeling more expensive to own.
Raise your right hand and repeat after me, I will never, ever disassemble my Ruger Mark 3 pistol.
Was thinking the same thing.
Better yet, get a Mark IV, but I like my old one and haven’t taken my own advice yet.
After I put it together 😅
yeah fucking dont.... I had to drill to take that shit tastic back trigger assembly to come out after messing up....
You should do it until you are comfortable with it
Good luck and salute to anyone who attempts to disassemble this gun for the first time. Lots of cussing, head down on the desk, broken dreams..
Magazine safety when you have to constantly pull the trigger during disassembly was a great idea. Really like the need for rubber mallets as well. I'm never taking this thing apart again unless it's broken
Because of statements just like Luke's, you can't call this gun safe. What a waste of time. Too much jiggling, hammering and prayer, I hate you Ruger MkII .... but I do like my 22/45 Lite Mk IV. 50th Anniversery MkII for sale, piece of crap to maintain but lucky it has a good feel. I this came in kit form, ya;ll would be bankrupt, IMHO.
congratulations, award for the most obtuse and needlessly complex design there ever was or ever will be
I've got my Mark III just few days ago. I viewed few videos and finally got the whole picture. There is no place for frustration, just a need for a solid knowledge on how this pistol is made. After that, it is very easy to perform the whole procedure. Thanks for a nice video !!!
I just made the decision today that my mk3 will not ever be cleaned.
Thanks for leaving out one MAJOR part of reassembly! You have to be holding the trigger rearward in order to have the mainspring housing return to it's proper position in the pisol. For convenience, I figured I would use this video. Thank god I didn't force it into place, assuming I was getting correct information from the manufacturer. Now lets hope that I didn't damage the hammer strut. Now I'm starting to get upset. I love Ruger and I love this pistol, but I mean come on.
Thank you Jonathan! This guy didn't mention this and caused me alot frustration.
ok 1, this is the most comprehensive video I have ever seen on reassembly of the mk3, thanks. 2, good god that was complex. 3, I think that I want one
Hope you didn’t do it.. Fun gun to shoot, but when it gets dirty it has failure to feeds, and stove pipes like a nightmare.... Which wouldn’t be a huge issue if it wasn’t an absolute bitch to clean.
I bought one for $120 years ago. It shoots great but when it comes to disassembly, it’s kind of a pile. Flip this, point here, pull that, spin around three times, pat you head and rub your belly. Great job ruger.
Reassembling.... I give up. Taking it to a gun smith before I throw it through a window
yeah- a bag-o-gun, I've heard this one before.
Worked like a dream! Disassembled and reassembled in 3 minutes,,,,Thanks!
Yeah that is how it worked for me the first time but the second was a very different story! LOL Great video though!
My girlfriends dad gave the gun in pieces, before you tube was born, I put it back together for him, not knowing nothing about it. He just gave me the gun at that point. Still own it. sits in a box all apart, this way I know my kids will never take it for a joy ride.
better than any gun lock... LOL
Watch out, if someone breaks in its might take a while to assemble. Better off only just using a safety and having it under the mattress or something, night stands would be great spots for convenience
Maybe have a pin code safe
@@crayzk0 if you're using a .22 for home defense you have much bigger issues
@@davisjames8484 he didn't say he uses it for self defense. That is a clever way to frustrate the kids!
My friend and I just started our first deep pour table. We had a bit of a spill, not too terrible. We were able to correct it. But then we ran out of epoxy before we hit the top edge. I appreciate the information to scuff up the edge before we get the next batch.
no problems huh? Every thing always go smooth as silk.This video reminds me of a Big Mac commercial, they look great on T.V. then you buy one and what a mess. Here is an idea, show us a video addressing real problems like why the main spring housing keeps pulling out when i try to shut the latch! I agree that the gun works good but stop with the commercial and go SLOW. You know people are having problems ,tell us in more detail why
It’s the hammer in the way, swing it up insert pin then swing it down to catch the lever. I usually watch this video 4 times to get this back together. I imagine it’s like a waltz and I can’t dance either.
@@mikelockhart9114 thanks👌
I have watched people on RUclips put these back together with ease, as if it's nothing. Sometimes I can get my Mark iii back together in an hour and sometimes it takes hours. It is unfair to attack people's intelligence b/c they struggle reassembling this gun. I have a BS, MS, and doctorate, graduated with honors, been around guns all my life. I actually find field stripping my 1911 a satisfying, pleasurable experience. Ruger has at least a marketing problem, if not a technical problem.
Great video for people who already are familiar with the gun (and most likely have already figured out how to do this). Gotta look elsewhere for a video by someone who can demonstrate this for someone new to the gun.
After almost a year of owning this pistol, I've finally figured out how to put it back together correctly every time. This video probably contains everything you need to put it back together, but fails to explain how, when and WHY it is critical to have the hammer and the strut in the correct positions. Plus, it goes way too fast. Diagrams and a troubleshooting video would be HUGELY helpful because there are too many steps where too things can go wrong. Very fun pistol to shoot though!
make sure to depress the trigger while attempting to manually place the hammer in the full forward position.
I have two mark III's. Today I just sat down and disassembled and reassembled until I got it right. It took about 3 cycles and now I feel fairly confident.
It is fun to shoot, and while it can be disassembled with a hammer, for me reassembling required a vice. It isn't worth taking apart to clean.
+David Warden I have owned two Mark II's and both weren't as bad as everyone say they are. The first one that I got was a target model and I practiced on disassembly and reassembly on it first. After about an hour of taking it apart and putting it back together, I was able to disassemble and then reassemble the pistol in 39 seconds total. Yes I said 39 SECONDS. X-military. That was including pulling back the bolt and dry firing it. This was all accomplished without the use of any tools (plastic hammer, paperclip, vice, etc.). Ruger makes very good guns, and if they are hard to take apart or put back together, either you are doing it wrong or the tolerances are spot on. Your life may depend upon you taking the time to clean your weapon. As they say, you take care of your gun and it will take of you.
@@MrBobking2 If your life depends on a Ruger Mk III, you're already fucked.
@@mzmadmike maybe you are, some of us aren't. You use a .22lr for self defense?!
Thanks for the vid been trying to put one together from I think the 60's sturm ruger and co been fighting it for an hr. The slide would not pull back, but the whole tilting the gun thing solved it. Thanks
As a side note, this pistol is incredible. It eats crappy bulk ammo without any problems. It's also a nail driver. It meets all of the standards that my other semi auto .22 caliber pistols cannot
Finally got mine back together after several attempts. There was some problem with the trigger out of the box - had to pull the trigger twice to fire the first round of each magazine I inserted. But I think I fixed the problem because it will now dry fire correctly. This gun is a curiosity to say the least!
It is incredibly easy once I figured it out. All you need is a half hour to easily disassemble and assemble the little tricky parts
I agree. I disassemble mine every time I shoot it. Which is often.
No wonder everyone told me not to buy a MK3 !
Never seen such a complicated reassembly.
Thank God for the MK4 that I waited for
Bought my 1st MKIII, only came here because- drumroll please- mainspring housing latch issues during reassembly. Congrats to all the savants who figured out how to do it yourself, but I am admittedly having issues. Once I figure out how to reassemble this pistol, I will not be taking it apart again. Ruger, you did a great job with this video, but it does not address my frustrations with your product. After a light skim of the comments, I will say I feel slightly better since I'm not the only one having this problem. I had assumed due to the popularity of this pistol, it would be slightly easier to take apart. Oh well..
I watched this video and a few others. After 9 hours, and trying the hammer in every possible position, the spring would not go in. Even if I could hammer it in, it comes back out when you turn the other portion so that it can snap into place. I could not reassemble it. WOW! Taking it to a gunsmith and then selling it. Learned my lesson about buying Ruger! (Yes, I know, they solved the problem with the Ruger 4 - but not spending another 9 hours on this. Ouch! Thanks Ruger!
OMG Thank you ruger for putting this video up!!!
This went from being one of my favorite guns to probably going to sell. What a piece of s***.
already sold mine, a hammer to reassemble, really
OK OK, I finally reassembled it !!!
Thanks to Moe's video on youtube.
Next time will be alot easier.
Once assembled this is an awesome pistol !!!!
Just finished ultrasonic clean and lube on my Ruger Mark II , am reassembled and ready to go. Not too bad for the first time field stripping this weapon. Between the manual and this video, it was fairly straight forward. I was not ready to take a hammer to disengage the barrel/receiver from the grip frame just yet. From what I've read it's not just a little tap. I'll let an armourer take that on. One note, I did spend about an hour to find the firing pin stop that fell out of the bolt.
I have had mine apart 2 times now and it is still hard. Just watch the video over and over and you will get it. I also pounded the barrel on and off again and again on my carpet. You will notice some wear points on a new gun. It helped me to take a razor knife and help wear it in at these points of binding.
After a few more views of this video, and better study of my manual, I've finally found where my frustration was coming from.
I'm so glad the last instruction on this video covered the very problem I was having.
No longer regretting my purchase, and looking forward to enjoying this firearm for many years to come.
You have no idea how simple this video my life has made. Now I can boldly go into the gun shop and buy one of these pistols, but I SWEAR that if I cant put it back together again, its going to break either, my door, my window, my tv, my cat, or my head. Please Lord have pity on me, and give me the wisdom in your kingdom to put together this piece of steel.
Great videos from Ruger!
Nice and slow see, that's the way to do it, nice and slow.... line from a Bogart movie.
This is the Ruger design that started it all, that is why it is different then all the rest.
My MkIII Hunter is awesome. Worth the price.
I picked up a Sig Sauer 1911 in .22 and love it!
As soon as the mk iv was available I sold my mk iii, bought the iv and never looked back😊
Thanks for the excellent video.
Really loving the mark 4 now
I kept getting hung up on the reassembly because the hammer strut was caught up behind the cross pin. I think it would be worthwhile to include that piece of info. in your video. I see now from the other posts that I am not the first person to encounter this situation.
@RugerFirearms Very professional response to RUclips shenanigans. I just bought a mark 3, Ive never owned or fired a gun in my life, but these tech tips are very helpful. It looks complicated compared to other to other gun assembly's, but not impossible
I got a Ruger the other day. Took it to the range and fell in love with it. Yeah its a pain putting this together when I compare it to my Xd 9mm. I wouldn't buying a second model of this gun. It shoots that well.
There is a different video on the Ruger web site. This one is very good. You can ignore all the other DIY home made ones on RUclips, Ruger's video on the MKII, MKIII and MKIII 22/45 are the best, most complete, accurate and all you need.
I can never remember all the steps so I have to watch the video every time. With the video it would be difficult to get right the first time.
Great Tech tip. Ruger made a very good video.
@nuccten i have the same problem i love the gun but dissasembling took an hour with full blows of a rubber mallet and it is impossible to reasemble..... its like it was made to not be field striped
I have a question: The magazine is only necessary in Mark III series, isn't it?
For the standard and Mark I isn't nevessary , is it?
I can't get my mainspring assembly back in. Every part of the reassembly went great until that. I made sure the hammer is forward and the strut is hanging down, but the pin will not go through the holes. It was extremely tight coming out, and now I can't get it back in. Driving me crazy for three days. How do you get this pin back in when it's so tight it won't move at all?
tapped the mainspring housing into place until pin is protruding through barrel but can't get it back in all the way...may have to take to a gunsmith to get it back together. Any suggestions?
I love my Ruger Mark-iii fluted barrel, my only complaint with this video is how dirty the pistol is for the state of him taking it apart that far. I have owned this pistol going on four years and once you get the reassembly down you will be able to fully clean your Ruger Mark III in all the nooks and cranny's.
I have to agree, once you've learned to do do things in order it really is a piece of cake. I started with a brand new pistol and it was a bit stiff, now the I've stripped it 9 or 10 times I can strip and reassemble in minutes.
Those that complain that it's difficult aren't paying attention or have a very short attention span.
A great gun with an unjustified reputation for being hard to work on.
I have a mk third hunter Luger it's jam from trigger and the hammer or pin won't calkback
I took mine down the first time using instructions in owners manual. Wasn't that bad. Really wasn't that dirty considering the round count. Great shootout pistol. Eats clays all day at the 50 yard range.
I love you..... I've been struggling for days.... 🎉🎉😂😂
@donharmon42 the reassembly of this .22 is so difficult because of all of the features included to keep people who dont follow safe firearm handling procedures from shooting themselves. That is all
very good info and yes this can be a bear at least the 1st time but not bad after doing a few times. thanks for great info, ruger rocks!!!
Your company should give "Mr Edgar49" an award, a prize and maybe a job if he wants it. He has saved your asses on this gun. Anyone who has watched his video disassembly and reassemnbly has loved it and been relieved and not "thrown the gun out the window"!!!!
I was also doing my pre-use cleaning on the gun. Like I said, the trigger had to be held in the rearward position. These instructions are all correct except for that one CRUCIAL step. Verify by reading section 7 under the Reassembly instructions in the pistol's manual. I'm just glad that I read it before I bent or broke something while assuming I was getting correct information on here. My pisol was test fired 12/3/2009. Video posted in April 2009. Maybe reassembly changed in those 8 months...
I have had my MKIII for four years and have not dissasembled it yet. Watching this video makes me not want to................but I will
When my MKIII is reassembled the bolt pulls back completely but doesn't close freely on it's own every time.
Have to bump it closed with my hand. Gun hasn't been fired much, maybe 200 rounds and this is first time
it's been disassembled per instructions on Utube. Drats
Such an incredibly accurate gun but my LORD the engineers were maniacal ! They fixed it. Finally, with the Mark 4. You can actually disassemble it AND reassemble w minimal cussing
I don't understand why so many people find this so difficult. It's actually fairly simple. And if it was a piece of crap like so many people claim, it wouldn't have been in production for so many decades with millions sold. It is one of the greatest rimfire pistols ever produced.
It depends on the pistol. The one I was given to clean WOULD NOT go back together. The spring on the bolt was keeping the pin from rising up and protruding through the top of the gun.
Also, the pin that is supposed to protrude through the bolt was a beast to push through. I used a mallet as the video mentioned but I didn’t just have to tap on it, I had to hit it way harder than I was comfortable with. Finally it did push into place.
I wanted to see why it was sticking so I pulled it back out and noticed a large scrape on its side where the paint was completely worn off (no doubt from me hitting it back together). It seems the quality control is lacking on these…
@@anenticingsquid9219 I gotcha. That's strange. I've never had a problem. I only own MKI and MKII's. Which do you have? And I agree with the quality control thing from several companies lately. Cheers.
Does it keep coming out? Hold the trigger and try again.
been trying for hours still cant get the bolt to come back
glad i got my mark 2 target with the bull barrel in 83, wont need a mark3.
so much safety, thats why ruger stamps the owners manual on the barrel.
its a tool, bullets dont magically appear everytime you tilt the freakin thing.
i didnt clean my pistol for the first time till 2010, dug out some belly button lint, and back to plinkin.
just like a nylon 66, used it till the teflon bolt was droolin.
Is it true that when you buy a Mark 3 they offer you a 12 hour course in how to
dis and reassemble it ????
Took me about 30 min and all my tools were improvised. But I did it, when can I expect my certificate of completion from Ruger?
We bought a Ruger Target Model Mark III 22/45 in 2005 when we moved to Arizona and found out that they were made in Northern AZ. In the years since, we have fired the gun a dozen times and disassembled it to clean it approximately 6 times. Each time we have disassemble it we have had great difficulty with reassembly, including this time when again we had to search for videos on how to do it. It is the only Ruger we own among a large gun collection of Colt, Winchester, Glock, H&K, Kahr, S&W handguns and rifles, including a Springfield M-1 Garand and NO other firearms is as difficult to disassemble and reassemble. For 65 years Ruger had not sought to improve this design and shame on them. If someone wanted to give me a Ruger for free I would decline.
I just got a brand new Ruger Mark III Target in stainless steel. I shot it yesterday at about 1:00 PM. It was very accurate and awesome to shoot. I field stripped and cleaned it as soon as I got home from the range about 3:00 PM. I finally got it reassembled by 10:00 PM. That thing is indeed a bitch to reassemble. I cut my hand at some point on the mainspring housing, but man does that bright red blood look good on the stainless steel contrasting with those black grips and the Ruger logo.
You did leave out a part. I just got done reassembling mine for the first time and now I will go to a gun shop tomorrow and trade it in. Thank God I used Beretta and Sign pistols in the Navy. They never left out a step for feild stripping.
After I assemble it (took days to figure it out), why won't the slide pull back all the way? What am I doing wrong? Anybody want to but an almost new stainless Mark II competition piece?
You didn't assemble it correctly. You need to align the hammer pin correctly.
I have a 22/45 Lite (the model with a yellow anodized barrel). I had problems like many others, but after analyzing problems and watching various RUclips posts, I thought that (1) the magazine/trigger interlock that requires the mag to be inserted to pull the trigger is a complication I do not need, and (2) The biggest problem was the fit of the barrel. Maybe the barrel was in the anodizing tank too long making the anodized surface a little to thick, I don't really know, but it took more than a light tap to disengage the barrel, and again to properly attach it back. I mean whacking away HARD 20-30 times.
The first problem (mag/trigger interlock) is fixed by a bushing that is sold by Tandemkross and others. It is a little finicky install (I am fat fingered) but not out of the question, and only needs to be done once.
The issue of barrel fit needing a hammer was to polish down the lug mentioned at 1:08-1:15 in this video. I polished a little at a time, both on the top, and a little under its lip (not easy but doable) until it fits very tightly but no longer needs my rubber hammer.
Either of these modifications are likely to void any warranty regarding the gun, but being able to clean its innards will decrease the likelihood of problems in the first place. Now I can disassemble my gun and give its internals a good cleaning and reassemble it without much problem. The interlock bushing also allows the magazine to eject fully without having to pull it out. That's nice, but I didn't really do that to speed up magazine changes, just to take one of the easily overlooked complications out of reassembly.
Yeah, that really helped, i was in a bad position with mine!! Test fired just fine!
It is possible you may not have gotten the barrel perfectly straight on the frame during reassembly. If the barrel is canted even slightly right or left of center, you could have something interfering with the bolt release mechanism. I had BIG problems getting my barrel correctly aligned the first time or two during reassembly, causing big time struggles getting the assembly bolt to feed through the receiver and bolt. Good luck.
If I may, Ruger; I love your guns,Mini 14, 10/22, even the 22/45. But this is the MOST frustrating field striping process i've ever done. Great gun still.
Thank you, very helpful
awsome gun .. hard too put back together.. but its woth it .takes a little time
How do you keep it from pulling the BIG pin out when you are trying to CLOSE the Locking lever??? BB
The hammer needs to be up out of the way when doing this step. It’s kinda like a yoga move. If disassembled this without utube but it took all day
@@mikelockhart9114 Ah Ha !!! Ah Ha !!! After hours of messing with this, finally Bob Burnitt asked the question and Mike Lockhart answered it !!! And, I got this @#$% thing reassembled !!!!! 😀😀😀😀😀😀😀
@passngas2 Agreed. I wish I was able to find a Mark II but I couldn't so I had to settle on a new Mark III. Still a good pistol but installing/removing the mag is a pain. Makes it hard to remember all the steps that are unneeded.
Why is my slide release not spring loaded now? 🤨
I had my ruger mark 2 cents 1989 only clean it 2 time it never fail me fires all the time always put a drop of gun oil down barrel and on the trigger it works for me now i shoot the sr 22 & the 9e 9mm
The Ruger 22/45 is a sweet shooting gun, but field stripping it is hell. Im in serious need of a gun smith. I could not get the main spring back in correctly and ended up breaking the housing latch. If that wasen't enough, I drove a pin out thinking it was holding back the main spring. It turned out the sear and spring. Think I'm going back to smith and wesson.
Thank you for the Mark IV
i didn't have to do that and the pistol went together fine and functions properly
Here I am, sitting with smug superiority with my Mark IV.
May be easy to some...and that's great. However, the fact that Ruger would have produced this design is insane. Glad I watched these videos before making the mistake of actually buying one. SR22 it is.
I a, so fed up with my Mk-3 disassembly/assembly I am thinking on trading it for MK-4 (I love Ruger)
never take a Ruger Mark 3 apart. junk will never go back together. if you are watching this video you are screwed
Pistol needs a major redesign for no tool needed assembly/disassembly.
+handgunner4 they heard you and did that. The new one opens in 2 seconds. But it also costs about $700. You thought thats a fair trade-off right?
wow, I didn't know this was terrible with guns babyville. I have never had a single problem reassembling this pistol. Ever.
Dear, please tell us what part of the chamber to the left of 2:10 seconds. Suvazheniem from Russian.
+Аллан Чумак Do you mean inside the chamber? There is a "loaded gun" indicator on Mark III's. The rim of the .22 pushes the pivoting indicator outside of the gun, to let the owner know there is a live round in the chamber. When the chamber is empty, a spring closes the indicator flush with the outside of the gun.
OK, I figured out the problem that was vexing me. There is a tiny metal lever (hammer strut?) that swings up and down. it must be up when latching the "housing latch". That is what gives the housing latch that last second of tension when closing it.
Keep in mind that once upon a time we had to figure this shit out without the help of a video
maybe the hammer wasn't in the full forward position when you went to put the main spring housing pin back in? to get that in the full forward position which is necessary for complete reassembly you need to pull the trigger. not really sure. not doubting you just from my personal experience
(continuing): I really like shooting this gun. I had a Buckmark and like my Mk. iii better. Today I was going to go shoot again, thought I'd clean the Mk. iii first, and still haven't been able to get it back together. I've watched this video and others. Still can't figure out why. I'll get it eventually - but I would have rather shot the gun today than struggled with reassembling it. A gun that causes me to miss opportunities to shoot is feeling more expensive to own.
Awesome gun. Helpful tip: Don't take it apart. Lord!
This guy talks way to fast and is hard to follow.
Hello, What is your name ? You have done a great job.
Thank you for all of your help.
New York City
D.J. Sal Z.
great!!!!
can we exchage e-mail?
There you go..
I got same problem and need watch that last portion of the video more closely :)
Ruger has a good video on their website on how to do this.