Roger that, will do!

All my experience is with the MK3 (which I loved so much, that I bought one) but I still voted for the 41, it's just too damn good of a gun to be in an economical .22 pistol poll. It's comparing apples and oranges.

I've owned three Rugers and one buckmark plus several other brands. I voted ruger for durability . Also no tools needed for takedown. I can hit clays on the 100 yd berm with the stock 5.5" ruger.

P-22 very light weight, accurate, and reliable gets carried a lot due to fun factor.

1911 conversions great training and the Marvel (full size) is the most accurate of all the .22s I own and came threaded for can.

Longest owned and hunted with (MKII target competition as accurate as a 10-22) 5.5 bull barrel broken awaiting repair after used by a deployed team.

Sig, great trainer and fun gun, no problems plinking and training accurate.

Best Accuracy.........what exactly are you looking for? I've read that soda cans at over 50 yards....Clay birds at 100 yards. First off, if you're looking for accuracy you will have to put away the bulk paks of ammo and buy some "good" 22 ammo. Eley comes to mind, along with a lot of other bands. Next, which pistol is the most accurate...let's take a look at what people are using in competition(not just plinking away on a Saturday morning at ther local public range). Since handgun silhouette starts at 25 yards and ends up at 100 yards I would have to say that this will be an excellent test of accuracy. Not shooting two or three times at a soda can at 50 yards, but one target, one shot. What gun is being used to shoot the highests scores?? Well, if you would have included ALL .22 pistols the TC Contender would have been the overwelming winner. This single shot pistol holds just about all the records. Hands down the most accurate, and realiable(since it's a single shot). But you're asking for a semi 22.........so what are the competitors using? I've seen a LOT of the old High Standards shooting some outstanding scores in IHMSA.(International Handgun Metalic Silhouette Association). The Ruger just don't stack up after 50 yards(perhaps the sights could use some help). So which Auto is/was King of the Hill? Easy....the orginial BuckMark Silhouette pistol, with it's heavy barrel(made with 10 and 14 inch). Back several years ago, when the Autos' had their own division(now they're combined with the single shots) the Buckmark Silhouette stood head and shoulders above the rest. Reliablity....no problem there...you can't afford to have a jam in competition.....
SO.....the question remains.....are you only looking for accuracy and realiablity at 25 yards or are you really looking for the holy grail of the BEST semi auto out there, in terms of the ultimate accuracy and realiablity? If the gun shoots under 1inch groups at 100 yards, imagine what the groups look like at 25 yards. Again, I mention the system of one target, one shot. If it takes two shots to hit your target, you're missing 50% of the time. I "plink" with a lot of shooters over the years....and when you're just having fun you're really not counting shots...when you hit the target, whether it's a tin can..swinger...or whatever, shooters have a tendency to "forget" that it took 2 or 3 shots to hit the target. We're having fun and we're not so serious as competition....but when the "money is one the line" it's back to "one shot, one target down". No room for error. I've been an active IHMSA competitor for 33 seasons....one missed shot in silhouette(in International class) and somebody else is going to eat your lunch for you.


Just my thoughts.

Over the last 40 yrs., I've owned a couple of S&W 41's, a High-Standard Victor (older model), several Rugers (Marks I and II), and my current Buckmark Stainless Camper. During those decades, I competed in NRA Conventional Pistol 900 matches with all but the Buckmark.

The Smiths were beautiful, classic designs, but no more accurate or reliable than the Rugers. The Rugers (all bull-barrels) were accurate and more or less reliable. Their triggers stink and even with Volquartsen replacements, only mediocre. I shot my new Buckmark yesterday and put a couple of hundred rounds through it. Some CCI mini-mags and Federal bulk. Even as a new pistol, functional reliability was 100 %, accuracy seemed equal to the best of the others, it had a better trigger out of the box than the Ruger even with the Volquartsen replacement and has absolutely the best ergonomics of all of them, IMO. I won't be able to make a conclusive accuracy comparison with the Ruger until I mount a red dot on the Buckmark and feed it CCI Standard velocity.

I shoot a Ruger MK II 6-7/8" heavy tapered barrel. Ammo is Remington Golden Bullet 525 count bulk or Federal 550 count bulk.

Function is 100% with either. Accuracy? I've never fired it off a bench but at 15 yards, with one hand, it chews a 2.5" hole in the target and it hits 10" steel plates at 50 yards all the time with two hands and about half the time with one hand.

Problem: the previous owner polished the sear, polished it through the hard surface, eventually it failed. Solution: a Volquartsen sear and hammer, now all is well again. To me the trigger pull is pretty good.

Cleaning: I used to clean the MK II after a couple hundred rounds, then I let it go for a couple thousand. That seemed to make no difference. Now I put a drop of CLP on bullet 5 and 10 in the magazine and some on the cases through the cutout in the side of the mag. Reason, I got used to this with a S&W K-22 revolver and with a Ruger Single Six, they need a little CLP in the chambers, every damned cylinder full, so ejection isn't a problem. After a few thousand rounds of using the CLP technique on the MK II, I took it apart for cleaning and it didn't seem to need much cleaning, it was still pretty clean.

Buckmark: got a new one and took it out and shot it. Remington Golden Bullet bulk caused a lot of malfunctions. Seven mags, 70 rounds of Fed 550 bulk from Wally World ran flawlessly. The magazine disconnect was very easy to remove. Trigger pull was fair, not as good as the MK II with VQ sear and hammer. I'll flip the spring and shoot a few hundred rounds tomorrow and let you know the results. http://www.rimfirecentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=174356&page=4


One other thing, Ruger magazines are $18, Buckmark magazines are $30, on the web. If you need 10 or more for a league it makes a difference.


Finally, the Ruger MK III 22 45 is available with 1911 style grips but it needs a lot of work to fix it for serious shooting. The Buckmark needs the mag disco removed and the spring flipped.

Update: flipped the spring last night and took the Buckmark to the range today. It's trigger pull was probably better than my MK II with Volquartsen sear and hammer. Total round count with Federal bulk 550 count from Walmart is now 310, function has been 100% with this ammo. Offhand at only 7.5 yards the Buckmark shoots as well as the MK II, that is it shoots out the same size hole. Grip comfort is better with the BM and it shoots softer. The MK II's relatively heavy bolt slams into an inflexible steel pin, the shock is transmitted to the hand by the back of the grip which is narrow. The Buckmark's slide is lighter and it is stopped by a buffer. The resulting lower level of shock is transmitted to the hand by a wider and more rounded grip. So, the Buckmark is more comfortable to shoot. The MK II 678 has an undercut front sight, it is a lot easier to see than the Buckmark's more conventional front sight.

Been shooting a Ruger Mark III that came from an Olympic shooter (serial #5) that is one of the most accurate guns I've ever shot.

Funny because I feel the same exact way about my Walther P22 I had. The pot metal POS slide couldn't have been made any poorer. Of course mine was when they first came out, apparently they've improved them quite a bit.

Ruger MK I,II,III

Tagged. Inquiring minds want to know.

Houston High Standard 10X Citation, Vitarbo Grips add-ons.
Classic, finnicky, capable of very good groups with the right ammo and marksman.
Made as a "Camp Perry Competitor" several years ago.
Probably NOT a mass-produced product and never intended to be.

Helpful thanks guys.