I've been eyeballing one and a member on a motorcycle forum I'm a part of just got the 22/45. Just throwing this out there for anyone who already owns one to be careful. Below are is his account of the first outing and his interaction with Ruger.....
OP: The bad news is I'm sending it back to Ruger on Monday, something is VERY ****ed with the safety on it. I've been shooting around 50 years now, never had an unintentional discharge. I HAD TWO TODAY!!! The safety doesn't have a clear click like it normally does, it feels a little mushy with no clear stop on either end. I didn't think too much of it at first.
A thread response: The good news is that Ruger will take care of it one way or another, and probably quickly. Their customer service is pretty good.
OP: That's what I expected too! Got a shock when I spoke to them this morning. First I had a girl in customer service. I told her what happened & she went & spoke to a tech. She returned to the phone & informed me, "They ALL do that! All the Mark IV's do that. It says right in the manual to not pull the trigger unless the safety is all the way off. You should read the manual". I then asked to speak to the tech & he told me, "They ALL do that, some worse than others, it depends on how much friction there is. He owns one himself & his did it too." I made sure he understood the gun fires by itself when you move the safety & he understood & explained that once I pull the trigger the gun is ready to fire & it will fire when you move the safety. That's why they have a warning in the manual to never have the safety in the wrong spot. I'm right handed & I found with the ambi safety that the right side safety would hit against my hand & was preventing the safety from moving normally. The tech said I should remove the right side, "That's what he did".
OP: The bad news is I'm sending it back to Ruger on Monday, something is VERY ****ed with the safety on it. I've been shooting around 50 years now, never had an unintentional discharge. I HAD TWO TODAY!!! The safety doesn't have a clear click like it normally does, it feels a little mushy with no clear stop on either end. I didn't think too much of it at first.
A thread response: The good news is that Ruger will take care of it one way or another, and probably quickly. Their customer service is pretty good.
OP: That's what I expected too! Got a shock when I spoke to them this morning. First I had a girl in customer service. I told her what happened & she went & spoke to a tech. She returned to the phone & informed me, "They ALL do that! All the Mark IV's do that. It says right in the manual to not pull the trigger unless the safety is all the way off. You should read the manual". I then asked to speak to the tech & he told me, "They ALL do that, some worse than others, it depends on how much friction there is. He owns one himself & his did it too." I made sure he understood the gun fires by itself when you move the safety & he understood & explained that once I pull the trigger the gun is ready to fire & it will fire when you move the safety. That's why they have a warning in the manual to never have the safety in the wrong spot. I'm right handed & I found with the ambi safety that the right side safety would hit against my hand & was preventing the safety from moving normally. The tech said I should remove the right side, "That's what he did".