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  5. In 1981 I bought a Ruger MK I and immediately took it out for some practice. Later, I took it apart for cleaning. Simple job, came right apart. THEN, I tried to reassemble the #$%@*! Ruger! Took 2 days and many attempts, but finally, accidentally, magically. it went back together. Had no idea why. The next day I sold it o a guy that I didn’t particularly like, even showing him how to disassemble it. He never spoke to me again. In 2003 I bought another Ruger, a MK III, and I was loathe to disassemble it for 18 years, but finally had to. Using YOUTUBE I can eventually get it back together. I have very, extremely, profane low opinions of Ruger engineering (altho I love my 10/22).

  6. I had a somewhat similar experience with my Ruger MK II. You and I share a mutual friend from Israel. I was out shooting with her husband, and came back to town and decided to deep clean my MK II. It was easy to get apart, but I could not figure out how to get it back together. I called our friends and asked if I might come over. I knew they had a Mark II as well.

    We sat down at the table and worked for 2 hours. Not only could we not get mine back together, but we took her MK II apart and tried to get it back together. In the end, we got them both re-assembled and it’s been 40 years, and I still have not stripped that MK II again.

    The unintended consequence of this fiasco was that the husband and been recently exposed to Chicken Pox. I caught it from him and spent 2 weeks out of work. When I got back, I still couldn’t shave for 9 weeks. I ended up losing that job and still have the beard. Somewhere in all this, I started dating Wife 1.0 (AKA Satan). She was school teacher and had no qualms about hanging with a guy who looked like a leper.

    In a lot of ways, that Ruger MK II changed my life irrevocably.

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