Ruko Squires Bingham M50S

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I've recently come across a Squires Bingham M50s. Made in the Philippines for Ruko Mississauga Ontario (all stamped on the barrel).
It has a 30 round stick mag and a shrouded barrel. The mahogany stock is in "like brand new" condition. The metal has some usage marks and the odd rust freckle/ scratch which has cleaned up very nice.
Information and availability of parts for these are extremely scarce after a few days of searching the net.
Anyone else have one of these?
Anyone have spare parts for these?
Does this gun have any value/ colletability?
I've been buying guns for over 20yrs, and this is the 1st m50s I've come across.
 
The SB is not the same rifle as the Italian made PPS-50. Nothing in common apart from external appearance.
The mechanical parts are the same as the SB Model 20.
Broken firing pins are not unheard of.
 
I took the bolt assembly apart and cleaned it. Everything looks nice and no abnormal wear. I see no reason not to take her out and let off a few shots.If everything works then I should have a nice little plinker.
I've done as much reading as I can. Here is what I've learned.
- The m50s were imported by Squires Bingham for Ruko (Mississauga Ontario)
- they were made in the Philippines by Armscor
- they were sold by k-mart and a few other box stores in the 80's
- the m50s is the same internally as the m20
- the m50s has nothing in common with the pps50 Italian made rifles (other than cosmetics)
-parts are very hard to find. Especially magazines
-10 round magazines can be ordered thru Western Gun Parts for 49.95 plus tax and shipping (I don't need one that bad. lol)
- the m50s came with a 30 round stick mag
- the marlin 795 25 round magazines are easily adaptable
- included in this same series of rifles were the m16 and ak47 look alikes.
-ive read overall very good reviews about these rifles.
-many say firing pins were a weakness, keeping it clean for reliable cycling is important as well as using good ammo.
- there seems to be no real colletability or value to these. however, they don't seem to be coming up for sale often, and the m50s I bought is the 1st I've come across since I was a kid.

If anyone else has info to add, then I'd love to hear, and Thank you to those who have helped me so far.

Josh
 
Model 20s were a very attractively priced .22. Good markup for the retailer. I didn't sell them in my shop, because I also did gunsmithing. One of the other stores sold them. They got brought to me to be repaired. Broken firing pins were not uncommon. The safety system involves a steel piece blocking a soft aluminum trigger. Guess what happens when wear occurs? They are accurate, and reliable when clean. They need to be cleaned regularly. The cocking handle detent tends to get lost when the rifles are disassembled. Disassembly and reassembly is more complicated than most other similar .22s. The stock is rather soft mahogany. The trigger mechanism housing is either soft cast aluminum or plastic. The working parts are mounted on splined pins. Splines don't stay tight in soft metal or plastic. Don't remove and replace the pins any more often than absolutely necessary.
As I mentioned, they are decent shooters if kept clean.
 
tiriaq. How would you go about replacing the broken firing pins? Mill or source new ones? I'm asking in case I ever come across that problem.
 
I got a SB M1600r in pieces as part of a deal I did, figured it would be missing too much to bother with, so boxed it up and forgot about it. One Saturday I came across it and decided to tinker on it. Stripped off the layers of "hammer tone" spray paint, oiled up the mahogany, and started putting it together. Everything but the carry handle was there and good. Carry handle was there but someone had tried to use a grinder to flatten it for an optic. Put a rail and carry handle from a nork AR on it, and it....is still just an awful looking gun. But it shoots okay. Pretty much just lives in the gun room as a conversation piece now.
 
ckd07 said:
tiriaq. How would you go about replacing the broken firing pins? Mill or source new ones? I'm asking in case I ever come across that problem.
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Don't know where one could be had now. I'd start with RUKO, try Western Gun Parts, go on to Gun Parts Corp.
A lot of these were sold under different names.
 
If you keep your eyes open you can often find them for parts guns or guns missing mags or mixed bag of misc parts. Firing pins in Norc JW14 are similar(read lighter constructed) and I have swapped a Mod 20 firing pin into a Norc, haven't tried the other way. I don't think some time with a file and a piece of decent steel would take long to make and I have hardened firing pins with a torch in the past. Parts and mags are like gold and if malfunctioning I find the S&B's one of the most frustrating mechanisms to make right again but are reliable and accurate when working
 
Have a few parts here for the SB models 14, 16, or 20. have a few firing pins. Found some in an old general store gun parts drawer a couple of years back and knew right off what they were for. Still buy up broken guns or collections of parts for customer gun repair.
 
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