WestKentucky
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Why would Ruger do this? Seems like a silly thing to monkey with as the delta ring has worked fine for 50-60 years. I get that it’s Ruger and their engineers can never leave well enough alone (transfer bar revolvers, messing with the Colt lockwork etc...) but why mess around with a delta ring? Now honestly I like it better than a spring loaded setup, but it’s neither milspec or commercial, seems it adds machining complexity ($$) even if it does remove a couple really cheap parts and possibly an assembly line worker.
Maybe I’m just angry at mine because it was stuck on with angry gorilla strength and I literally broke my armorers wrench trying to get it loose before simply putting a pipe wrench on the stupid thing and twisting it off. It boogered up the threads on the outside pretty bad, but it’s still usable... I won’t but somebody else possibly could.
Does monkeying with this part make sense to anybody else? Am I crazy in thinking it was a silly modification, especially since a whole bunch of the ARs that they sell have free float handguards.
Maybe I’m just angry at mine because it was stuck on with angry gorilla strength and I literally broke my armorers wrench trying to get it loose before simply putting a pipe wrench on the stupid thing and twisting it off. It boogered up the threads on the outside pretty bad, but it’s still usable... I won’t but somebody else possibly could.
Does monkeying with this part make sense to anybody else? Am I crazy in thinking it was a silly modification, especially since a whole bunch of the ARs that they sell have free float handguards.