If all goes well, I plan to order my first Mark II in a week or so. I would like to get the Government Competition model, but I have something I would like a clarification on before I make up my mind for sure...
I have read a lot of this forum in the last few weeks. I started by reading backwards from the front a few months, and then I decided to start from the beginning (or the end, depending on how you look at it) back in 2000.
I read several posts from the recent months dealing with jams in the Stainless Steel Models of the Mark II. The replies from these posts indicated that these guns have some jamming/stove pipe problems in the beginning, but after about 1000 rounds, the parts break in and it is smooth sailing from there, as long as you find the ammo that your gun likes.
But then I started reading the posts from two years ago. They talked a lot about QC problems, polishing, sending the guns bact to Ruger, etc...
My questions are : Did Ruger change their manufacturing procedures to make these guns more reliable in the last couple of years? Did it just take a while to figure out that these guns settled down after being properly broken in? Do SS Mark IIs need gunsmithing to make them reliable?