Description
Specifications:
- Barrel: 5.5 inches (heavy)
- Weight: 2.15 pounds
- Grips: Colt 1911-style checkered wood
- Sights: Micro-adjustable rear, post front
- Magazine: Steel 10-round capacity
- Overall Length: 9 inches
- Width: 1.22 inches
- Height: 5.5 inches
- MSRP: $499
From Guns.com, Ben Philippi:
“This pistol fits my grip well and has the unmistakably nice grip angle of the earlier designs. The Mark III’s grip resembles the Colt 1911 and feels like a delicate version of that gun. At a bit over 2 pounds, it is lighter but has a solid feel in my hand. It points naturally, and I can feel the secure texture of the 1911 checkering against my palm. The bull barrel’s weight aids in this pointability, steadying my aim.
The factory 10-round steel magazines for this pistol are high quality and easy to load. Pull down on the loading button on the left side to make loading easy. The magazine is the heart of a semi-auto pistol. It must function, and it does. Most of my shooting is done for slow-fire accuracy, but I can rapid-fire without a jam.
Some .22-caliber semi-auto pistols can be sensitive to the ammo in their diet – not so with my gun. It will shoot standard-velocity and high-velocity .22 LR ammo reliably. CCI Quiet .22 LR ammo fired but did not cycle the bolt due to its low velocity of 750 fps , but this is to be expected.
Shooting the Mark III Target Model is a dream. Its trigger is crisp, and there is no felt recoil with standard-velocity ammo. Accuracy is quite good. Today, my targets are soda cans, 2-liter soda bottles, steel plates, and a paper target.
The water bottles are easily punctured and leak. Moving to soda cans, they explode nicely. Now my favorite: the 2-liter soda bottles. Once shot, they shower soda, and one explodes! Good for the flowers at Area 51.
Heavy steel plates do not move when hit with .22 rimfire, but you can see nice grouping. The paper target also shows good grouping.”
From the RugerForum.net:
paulkalman, Dec 13, 2015
“I have had my 22/45 mk3 target for two years. I have fired over 3000 rounds from it. I made a few upgrades to make it perfect for me (Under another $150.00 in addition to the purchase price). One specifically was to enhance the takedown process. One was to improve the trigger. One to make it load like every other auto loading pistol out there. If I had known that I could’ve bought my pistol with replaceable grips you bet I would’ve paid the extra for them. Yes, there are target grips available, but why don’t you go for a mk3 competition model special editions out there that come with grips already on them and a longer barrel to boot. Is it the best target pistol out there, maybe yes, maybe no. But it is affordable and a real accurate useable pistol. I love mine, it is accurate and in about 2500 rounds has not one misfire, or other hiccup save one split case with a remington thunderbolt LR.”
