Ruger Mark III & Mark IV

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Volumes

1. Vol 1 Origins — A Pistol Filed in 1946, a Company Founded in 1949 Bill Ruger, Alex Sturm, the $37.50 Standard, and the patent that already contained the takedown problem
2. Vol 2 Four Generations — What Changed from the Standard to the Mark IV Dates from Ruger's own records, where they disagree with each other, and why the Mark III is remembered for its safeties
3. Vol 3 How It Works — The Tube, the Bolt, and the Pin That Holds It Together Blowback, the three-job bolt stop pin, the fire-control group, and what the Mark III added and the Mark IV changed
4. Vol 4 Takedown and Reassembly — From Ruger's Own Manuals Four generations of procedure, the places the manuals disagree with each other, and the button that ended sixty-seven years of complaint
5. Vol 5 The Mark IV Recall, and the Safety That Could Stop Halfway Ruger's notice of 7 June 2017 in its own words: the serial ranges, the two parts, the S on the white dot, and why only the grip frame went in the post
6. Vol 6 Magazines Across Seven Decades Nine rounds, then ten; a heel catch, then a button; and why a Mark III magazine has a window in it — compatibility as Ruger's manuals state it, and where they are silent
7. Vol 7 The Pistols Documented Here, and What the Volquartsen Parts Change A Mark III Target decoded from Ruger's own spec sheet, a Mark IV not yet recorded, and the planned competition kit part by part — including the magazine disconnect it removes and the bolt release that does not exist for this frame
8. Vol 8 Keeping It Running — Maintenance, Malfunctions and Repair Cleaning and lubrication, the parts that wear, the Army's 1959 troubleshooting tables and detail strip, and where a bench repair ends and Ruger's factory service begins