Hi Guys
Wanted to post a bit of the journey with my new to me Ruger Alaskan Hawkeye in 416Ruger
I put a wanted add up on the ee for one of these units, and a great CNGr sent me a barely used one.
First thing was to tear the stock off, and giver her a good cleaning, well to my surprise, there was rust forming on lots of the stainless surfaces, well not a big deal I can clean that up as there was no pitting.
Once I got it all cleaning up I was function testing. And the LC6 trigger I have to say, was the worst trigger I have ever pulled. Gritty, about 7LBS on my scale, creepy, just about as bad as you can get. After watching some Utube vids, I took it apart and did a bit of stoning and clipped half a round off of the spring.
Now it is a acceptable trigger. Not amazing but workable.
Now to the action, it was stiff and grimy, but I was planning on watching a movie and working it a few hundred times with lots of lube to see if that made it a bit better. Well it helped but not much. I tore the unit apart again and with some soft stones on my dremel tool went to work removing all the casting and machining marks, ridges, and none smooth surfaces. the safety was terrible, took about 30min to make the surface polished up so that it operated smooth. The feed lips on the receiver were so sharp that you could cut your fingers when pushing a round down, so again with the dremmel. It also marked the brass up terribly.
Now I am happy how everything functions on the gun. This is the perfect rifle for what I wanted and with a couple hours of hand work I made it work, like it should have from the factory. I am a bit sad that it went out the door like this from Ruger. Especially with the amount of Ruger#1 rifles I have owned and they were all perfect. This is the first Ruger Hawkeye that I have owned.
Now this is not meant to be a dig at Ruger, as these are mass produced firearms and not all nicely hand fitted like guns costing 10 times as much.
But more to say if you have some time and some basic tools, you can save some cash and make a gun work the way it should.
Wanted to post a bit of the journey with my new to me Ruger Alaskan Hawkeye in 416Ruger
I put a wanted add up on the ee for one of these units, and a great CNGr sent me a barely used one.
First thing was to tear the stock off, and giver her a good cleaning, well to my surprise, there was rust forming on lots of the stainless surfaces, well not a big deal I can clean that up as there was no pitting.
Once I got it all cleaning up I was function testing. And the LC6 trigger I have to say, was the worst trigger I have ever pulled. Gritty, about 7LBS on my scale, creepy, just about as bad as you can get. After watching some Utube vids, I took it apart and did a bit of stoning and clipped half a round off of the spring.
Now it is a acceptable trigger. Not amazing but workable.
Now to the action, it was stiff and grimy, but I was planning on watching a movie and working it a few hundred times with lots of lube to see if that made it a bit better. Well it helped but not much. I tore the unit apart again and with some soft stones on my dremel tool went to work removing all the casting and machining marks, ridges, and none smooth surfaces. the safety was terrible, took about 30min to make the surface polished up so that it operated smooth. The feed lips on the receiver were so sharp that you could cut your fingers when pushing a round down, so again with the dremmel. It also marked the brass up terribly.
Now I am happy how everything functions on the gun. This is the perfect rifle for what I wanted and with a couple hours of hand work I made it work, like it should have from the factory. I am a bit sad that it went out the door like this from Ruger. Especially with the amount of Ruger#1 rifles I have owned and they were all perfect. This is the first Ruger Hawkeye that I have owned.
Now this is not meant to be a dig at Ruger, as these are mass produced firearms and not all nicely hand fitted like guns costing 10 times as much.
But more to say if you have some time and some basic tools, you can save some cash and make a gun work the way it should.
). No issues, it was just fine out of the box.
