Assembling the Barrel of a Ruger Mark 2 Gun

Video Transcript

"Alright, now what we're going to do is we're going to reassemble our clean firearm. Now we're basically just going to do this in reverse order. Now remember, we used a hammer the first time and we're more than likely going to have to use a hammer the second time. Here's our lower receiver. Here's our machined block. Here's our machined area on the upper receiver. We're just going to set those two pieces together and they just go right together like that. As you can see, here we are. In a perfect world, you'd just be able to push that back but this is back when they were machining, so we're going to take our cloth and this time we're just going to kind of cover up the end of the barrel. And I'm going to hold that with my left hand as I'm kind of holding the barrel. I'm going to take the hammer and I'm going to give it a couple, a couple good knocks. One more, a little bit of love. Alright. Now what we're going to look at here is right here on the back of the firearm. The upper receiver should actually overhang the lower receiver about a sixteenth of an inch give or take. I'm looking at that. That's looking pretty good. Kind of look at that. And now sometimes on some of the Mark 2's, this machining is so tight that if you're slightly off just a little bit and you won't know it in the beginning, that when you go to put your bolt back in, everything is going to go back together except for the main spring housing fitting at the bottom of the back strap. So we're going to see how good we did. And we're going to move on to our next step."