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Put some stag on my Rock Island Armory 9mm:
A couple of weeks back my local shop had a couple of used Ruger P345s on the shelf. I've shot 345s and liked them, but don't like that they have an LCI and magazine disconnect. Still, they don't turn up much for resale in my area so I decided to pull the trigger on the stainless one of this pair.
It's a nice compliment for my P90
The gun had a couple of spots I wanted to touch up, so I did a complete disassemby of the top end. Somehow I misplaced the magazine disconnect...oh well, it'll turn up someday. I did find the LCI, but while cleaning it up I must have polished it a little to much as it does not stick up as far as it had prior to "cleaning it up":
I forgot to take a "before" photo, but this shot from http://hunting.about.com/od/guns/ss/...m#step-heading is representative:
Now:
I've run some rounds through the P345 and found it reliable (no issues at all). It also groups well, but the sights seem setup for "Bullseye" shooting (six o'clock hold gives 10 ring hits on a reduced size, slow fire target ten yards). I prefer to have my pistols shoot to right above the front sight post at that range. There are not a lot of aftermarket sights for the 345, but Ruger did/does have some OEM rear sights available.
I decided to pick one of these up and file it down enough to bring the point of impact down. The problem with this is that the amount of material I need to remove would cut into the white dots on the sight:
I figured this would be rather unsightly, so I decided to remove the dots completely. Out comes the Dremel tool;
to be continued...
A couple of weeks back my local shop had a couple of used Ruger P345s on the shelf. I've shot 345s and liked them, but don't like that they have an LCI and magazine disconnect. Still, they don't turn up much for resale in my area so I decided to pull the trigger on the stainless one of this pair.
It's a nice compliment for my P90
The gun had a couple of spots I wanted to touch up, so I did a complete disassemby of the top end. Somehow I misplaced the magazine disconnect...oh well, it'll turn up someday. I did find the LCI, but while cleaning it up I must have polished it a little to much as it does not stick up as far as it had prior to "cleaning it up":
I forgot to take a "before" photo, but this shot from http://hunting.about.com/od/guns/ss/...m#step-heading is representative:
Now:
I've run some rounds through the P345 and found it reliable (no issues at all). It also groups well, but the sights seem setup for "Bullseye" shooting (six o'clock hold gives 10 ring hits on a reduced size, slow fire target ten yards). I prefer to have my pistols shoot to right above the front sight post at that range. There are not a lot of aftermarket sights for the 345, but Ruger did/does have some OEM rear sights available.
I decided to pick one of these up and file it down enough to bring the point of impact down. The problem with this is that the amount of material I need to remove would cut into the white dots on the sight:
I figured this would be rather unsightly, so I decided to remove the dots completely. Out comes the Dremel tool;
to be continued...
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