Building a Ruger clone.

photoracer · Jun 28, 2015

Just finished building a Ruger Mk III clone. Could have done it without any Ruger parts at all but at least for now I installed an OEM Ruger bolt and bought a couple of Ruger mags.
Volquartsen Alloy Mk III grip frame
Tactical Solutions Alloy upper receiver/barrel
OEM bolt built from parts from Numrich Gun Parts
Majestic Arms extended mag release
Tandemkross titanium extractor + spring
Tactical Solutions 1911-22 steel compensator (pictures show SJC alloy comp)
Taccom Bear Cave 90 degree C-More mount
C-More Slide Ride red dot.
And later:
Volquartsen CNC Competition bolt
Mec-Gar Ruger magazines

photoracer · Jul 2, 2015

Here is the final product with the Ruger bolt, TacSol racker, and Allchin Comp. All ready for Open rimfire steel competition. remains to be seen whether it will supplant my longtime custom Browning.

BigBull · Jul 2, 2015

Very nice

Threeband · Jul 2, 2015

Why is the red dot mounted on its side?

jeganrocks · Jul 2, 2015

he holds the gun sideways?

dontpanic · Jul 2, 2015

jeganrocks said:
he holds the gun sideways?

Gangster

Threeband said:
Why is the red dot mounted on its side?

It puts the dot on the C-more closer to the barrel. I use that mount on my Buckmark. It truly makes a difference.

dontpanic · Jul 2, 2015

Nice pistol Photoracer. How's it shoot?

photoracer · Jul 3, 2015

Shoots really good. I find I can hammer the trigger in the VQ lower faster than I can the Browning. I adjusted some of the pre-travel out of the VQ trigger and my trigger gauge is giving me readings in the same ballpark as my Browning, about 1.8 lbs. Seems to be a little less picky on ammo also. Ran thru 3 boxes of ATI Scorpion 36g HP (same as Armscor 36g HP) as fast as I could at steel and had no duds or anything. plus some Fed Automatch too. Found the extra 3 mags I needed to try it at one of the Steel Challenge matches this weekend on the wall at Hafers this morning. Glad they were open today. Also glad the Allchin comp showed up in the box after work on Thursday. These TS upper assemblies are a full 1" in diameter at the barrel. You can see in the earlier pics I have a ..920" brake on it and it looks funny. Wish I could get a thumbrest on it like on my Browning. I adapted one I was using on my STI but I don't feel like drilling mounting holes in the nice new VQ grip frame just yet.

Target weight was hit as both the FrankenRuger and my Browning Buckmark weigh in the 27-28 oz. range.

photoracer · Jul 3, 2015

Threeband said:
Why is the red dot mounted on its side?

You get the advantage of a low profile mini red dot's low bore axis with the bigger window of a full size red dot. But the guys at C-More hate that we do this to their red dots. The C-More allows you to use interchangeable red dot modules with dot sizes from 2 MOA to 16 MOA. This gun is using the C-More off my STI which has a 12 MOA dot on it. My Browning and my 10/22 steel rifle both have 16 MOA dots on them. There is some variation in the making of the dot modules so a slightly small 16 MOA dot will look like it is the same size as a slightly big 12 MOA dot. This one is an example of a big 12 MOA dot

Blaster229 · Jul 5, 2015

Man that's awesome. I wish I had talent.

jimbobborg · Jul 6, 2015

Nice. The only thing missing is a sight picture. I just have a red-dot on my Mk II.

photoracer · Jul 7, 2015

I suppose I could do a sight picture. Although looking thru the C-More at a big a** 12 MOA dot is not actually telling you anything. I will say this. I shot the pistol this weekend in the Steel Challenge matches at Peacemaker and Fredericksburg and lowered my Rimfire Pistol Open personal scores in 4 of the 8 stages.

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