Ready to Cry

[K.Mooneyham]

Okay, I'm an idiot. There, I said it to get it out of the way. I recently purchased a Ruger GP100 Match Champion in stainless steel. It has a Novak rear sight. I was planning on putting some rounds through it this weekend, so I decided to check the sight adjustment with a laserlyte. As I suspected, it was off at the 8 to 9 yards distance in my main hallway. I removed the setscrew and attempted to drift the sight over. Not only did it not move, but I scratched the surface, badly. Thus, the reason that I am ready to cry. It was a beautiful firearm, I paid way too much, of course, and now its rather nasty looking...and I haven't even put one round through it. I have emailed Ruger to ask them how I can move the sight, hopefully they will get back to me soon. Anyway, I just had to get this off of my chest and I figured other "gun people" would be the best ones to confess to.

[Javier730]

I feel for you. Its happened to me twice before, putting a scratch on one of my nicer firearms. I HATE IT!!!

[Richbirdhunter]

I was out bird hunting one morning and I leaned my shotgun against the the truck the gun fell over and chipped the stock and scratched the truck on the way down.

[Beiruty]

Send it to good Gunsmith and he will take care of it

[ShootDontTalk]

I learned the same hard lesson many years ago. Everyone who plans on working on guns needs some real hardwood dowel pin rods and some soft pine blocks. I think now you can find some really tough plastic rods if you can't find hardwood. Have several different weight hammers available so you can vary the force you apply.

Of course no one can afford specific ones for every model, but I think Brownells used to sell a universal sight pusher.

[The Wall]

I wouldn't touch a sight until I've put at least 100 rounds through it. If I'm not mistaken Ruger test fires their guns before shipping. I would check out that laser also at the range in that gun before making adjustments also. I've always thought laser bore sights were for getting you in the ball park. Should do final adjustments at the range with the ammo you're going to use most often.

[Pawpaw]

You could just consider it a "character mark". Your gun now has a character all it's own.

Previously, yours was indistinguishable from possibly thousands of other identical models. Now you can easily pick yours out of a pile because you know your mark!

[bmwrdr]

Hey, no worries, it is personalized now and I'd call it a beauty mark. I have one of those and I think many others do too.
If I work on a sight I have either a sight pusher with the proper shim or at least nylon punches.

[K.Mooneyham]

Followup:

Ruger contacted me via email, said they wanted me to ship it to them. I called the provided number, was issued an RMA, and told that a UPS person would pick it up from me. I had to put it into a plain box with only the RMA number on the outside. Hopefully UPS will pick it up tomorrow and get it on its way to Ruger for some repair work. I appreciate the thoughts trying to cheer me up. It probably wouldn't bother me so much if it wasn't new. I'll post about another followup once it comes back to me; might be a while, though, I've heard they can be kind of slow.

[longhorn86]

I sent my Mark Iii to Ruger last year for repair and they had it on the way back to me in 48 hours. Your situation may take a little longer, but unless something has changed drastically with their turnaround, you should have your gun back in short order.

[K.Mooneyham]

I sent my Mark Iii to Ruger last year for repair and they had it on the way back to me in 48 hours. Your situation may take a little longer, but unless something has changed drastically with their turnaround, you should have your gun back in short order.

Thanks for the encouraging report. I'll keep my fingers crossed.

[JALLEN]

I sent my Mark Iii to Ruger last year for repair and they had it on the way back to me in 48 hours. Your situation may take a little longer, but unless something has changed drastically with their turnaround, you should have your gun back in short order.

Not to play "Can you top this" but when I had to send my P7M8 back to H&K to replace a broken little black doohickey, I called them Monday morning, handed it to UPS Tuesday morning, got a call from them on Wednesday that it was fixed, cleaned and inspected good as new, and had the pistol in my hands Thursday morning, good as new. In the package was my check for return shipping. They wouldn't even cash that. Most impressive indeed!

[The Wall]

I sent a Beretta back after only shooting it once because part of the frame cracked. They sent me a new gun. Don't remember how long it took but don't think it was long. I know Ruger has fantastic customer service. I have several Rugers and have never had to send one back, but I've read many success stories. One story a guy sent back an older model single action revolver to have something fixed and they rebuilt the entire gun at no additional charge. Made in the USA!

[longhorn86]

I sent my Mark Iii to Ruger last year for repair and they had it on the way back to me in 48 hours. Your situation may take a little longer, but unless something has changed drastically with their turnaround, you should have your gun back in short order.

Not to play "Can you top this" but when I had to send my P7M8 back to H&K to replace a broken little black doohickey, I called them Monday morning, handed it to UPS Tuesday morning, got a call from them on Wednesday that it was fixed, cleaned and inspected good as new, and had the pistol in my hands Thursday morning, good as new. In the package was my check for return shipping. They wouldn't even cash that. Most impressive indeed!

Most impressive!!