I just bought this, because you can’t just spend your life shooting AutoMags, Grizzlies, Anacondas and Dirty Harry’s gun















Serial number indicates production in 1990



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Not a fan of this look, but I must admit the grip is quite good



Bought it for $ 350, very happy with it, wanted one for a long time.

Congrats on a nice find. Great example of a classic .22 pistol. It fits in well with any big bore handgun as a "high water mark" gun. Shoot and enjoy it.

Pictured is my MKII Target, complete with ugly scope and mount. Silly accurate, and a proven game getter.

Larry

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Old school cool. Around here they are more than what you paid.

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Made it, Ma! Top of the world!

Nice addition to your collection!

Nice gun at a nice price. I have the MKII Gov’t and they are great shooters. Have fun.

The Ruger Mark II is the best of the lot. Mine would be one of the last ones to leave...

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I agree with what everyone else has said...great gun and plenty accurate! Congrats on your new acquisition!

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Congratulations on your new Family member

I am another fan of the Ruger 22 and MK-II pistols

I like my Mk I 678T and my Mk II 512T *almost* as much as my Model 17 and 3rd Model Outdoorsman:

Mine is stainless, 5.5 inch bull barrel. And I bought the walnut grips.

I published an article on Ruger's .22 auto pistols in the Nov-Dec, 1980, American Handgunner. I know it's available Online, but not how to post a link. Those more knowledgeable have posted the link before and maybe will do that again.

I did a lot of research and that article has some info that I think many here would enjoy knowing and will not find elsewhere. I think the endurance of these guns when owned by shooting clubs in South Africa and in Europe will astound most readers. The magazine includes a large color photo of Ruger .22 No. 1 million. However, it isn't part of my article and may not show in an Online version of that story.

I was surprised to learn that one South African city armed its municipal water supply guards with Ruger .22's! But one correspondent from there thought that a .22 was a little light for shooting dassies/rock rabbits. He had, however, killed a puff adder with his. The puff adder (Bitis arietans) is a very dangerous viper, which probably accounts for the majority of snakebite deaths in Africa. That man had the rare MK I with 5.25 inch barrel. I've never seen one of those in person. I don't think they were ever made in stainless.

The blued MK I in my article went to my ex when we divorced. I got a kitchen table in return. Oddly, the Bianchi holster for that gun won't accept my present stainless MK II. The retaining strap won't quite close.

Mine is Stainless, 'cause keepin' it shiny is Painless..

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I think stainless is especially good on guns that you grip a lot on the bare steel, as with most autos.

Yea, the MK II is a great pistol, I'd never give mine up as long as I'm vertical.

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Here’s a link to the article. Very informative! https://americanhandgunner.com/1980issues/HND80.pdf

I have one exactly like the OP’s. Gotta lotta rounds through it but it still looks pretty much like new. It ‘s a hoot to shoot!

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Nice pistola! Congrats on the new acquisition. Truth be told, I enjoy shooting my .22 rimfire pistols over any of my other handguns. They are just plain fun to shoot.


Ruger MkIV 22/45 Lite


Browning Buckmark 5.5 Field

When I'm serious about taking out a critter with a .22 LR pistol my MKII Target is the one I usually grab. Probably the best of the MK series Ruger's in my opinion.

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Thanks so much! That link is for the entire issue of the magazine. My article begins on page 46, and the One Millionth gun is just ahead of it, in full color. Ruger provided that color transparency and some of the art in my story.

Gosh, that takes me back a ways, although my writing career began with an item in, Sports Afield's Almanac section in about 1973. I haven't written professionally since 2011, but enjoy browsing those old stories. In all, I published around 5,000 articles in a variety of books, newspapers, and magazines. Getting a computer made the typing and mailing much easier.

Great find. The Mark1 and Mark11 are my very favorites of the Ruger 22's. I use my old Mark1 often and have never found a handgun that points so naturally. If it wasn't for my love affair with my 17-1's finish and machinery the Mark1 would still be my number one go to gun as it was for over 40 years. It is now very heavily worn and will be, along with my 17-1, the very last to go.

I am still disgusted by the way Bill Ruger betrayed supporters of the Second Amendment who made him rich, but he did make an excellent .22 pistol. I have had four or five, including "target" versions, but this is my favorite, and the only one I kept. Purchased in the early '90s as I recall.

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I currently have two Ruger Mark II's. I've had a lot more in the past, and of course, have Mark III's and a Mark IV, but these two Mark II's are definitely my favorites.

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Very nice find. Enjoy it! The biggest problem with these pistols is that they are much like potato chips. It's hard to have just one.
I've got "a few" MK I,II',III and IV's these days.
Here is a favorite MK II Target ( with aftermarket rib) that has been in my colection 30+ years:

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CDNN SPORTS - RUGER MKI MKII SILVER SCOPE MOUNT

CDNN has a B-Square scope mount for $19.99

These two are my favorite handguns to shoot. Each has way north of 30,000 rounds of pure shooting enjoyment. All my ( too many) other handguns combined would barely register on that scale.

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John

Thanks for the kind words and for showing me yours.

I took it straight to the range to get a feel for it and sight it in.

It shot straight but a bit high for me, lowered the rear sight by 6 clicks and it was dead on. 25 meters rested, this thing works.

I've got it's uglier cousin, the 22/45.
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Save for one magazine that went bad, it's been exceptional through the decades I've had it.

I for sure never warmed up to it. But I’m sure it shoots great, and with the can it looks the business.

It's got the best trigger (aftermarket/modified) of any gun I own and is my most reliable rimfire...any ammo that's a problem in anything else...this gun works with it. It's definitely a function over form type thing.

Great guns for sure. I bought a new MK-ll Target model marked 210-xxxx in 1984 and I shot it in an indoor bullseye pistol league for a couple of years. I still have it and all of my kids and grandkids have shot it also.

Very nice! I traded into a stainless Mk II target last month and I like it a ton - I've been looking for one of these for a long time. (I would have preferred blued like yours, but you get what you get. )



This one went back to Prescott for factory installation of a rail - I have a Burris FastFire II on it now, and it shoots pretty well. I'm sure it'll shoot very well once I settle down and find ammo it likes.
With the tip of my Subie key - 10 yards - Win bulk 36-gr ammo

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Nice pick up. I love my MK2 Target.

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Orange plastic grips? So you can see the gun easily if you drop it in a swamp there?

It pains me that my post may have caused some consternation to my western neighbor.
In the spirit of repairing relationships between our two states, I offer a more accurate picture of these grips.
I gotta admit, orange plastic would be easier to spot in the swamp, though.

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" I don't recall, senator."

Still looks like orange plastic to me, with a molded recess for a magazine release not present on this model.

But I like your avatar. Clever use of that box, the one in which most S&W's that I've bought came.