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603Country · December 21, 2011, 06:51 PM

I've got a bunch of Rugers of various ages, but honestly haven't paid too much attention to model nomenclature, other than 'tang safety' and 'not tang safety'. So... forgive me if I'm confused over Mark II and Hawkeye, but I'm thinking that the Hawkeye is a Mark II version of the rifle. I took my Hawkeye to a gunsmith to get the trigger adjusted and he said that he couldn't adjust it, but he could replace the spring, which took the pull from between 4 and 5 pounds down to about 2 pounds. Took him 5 minutes and cost me $10. But if the Hawkeye trigger is just a later and improved (and different) version of a Mark II trigger, then maybe you can't have the same easy fix. I guess what he did wasn't really an adjustment, but it did get me to where I wanted to be.

December 21, 2011, 06:51 PM	#5
603Country Senior Member Join Date: January 6, 2011 Location: Thornton, Texas Posts: 3,998	I've got a bunch of Rugers of various ages, but honestly haven't paid too much attention to model nomenclature, other than 'tang safety' and 'not tang safety'. So... forgive me if I'm confused over Mark II and Hawkeye, but I'm thinking that the Hawkeye is a Mark II version of the rifle. I took my Hawkeye to a gunsmith to get the trigger adjusted and he said that he couldn't adjust it, but he could replace the spring, which took the pull from between 4 and 5 pounds down to about 2 pounds. Took him 5 minutes and cost me $10. But if the Hawkeye trigger is just a later and improved (and different) version of a Mark II trigger, then maybe you can't have the same easy fix. I guess what he did wasn't really an adjustment, but it did get me to where I wanted to be.