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Section 8: Handguns Subject: Latest Ruger .22 Msg# 998581
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Without digging mine out of my safe, I seem to recall the serial number on the front of the grip frame, which makes the word usage all the more crumbly.  If you want to know for sure I'll find it in the safe (all my firearms are "Bore Stored" these days and yet not all are ID'd on the outside with tags. Bore Store now makes them with a tag but I have many "pre-tag" and have never finished adding my own tags--need to get a "round tuit."  ) Since I haven't shot my Ruger Mk.II in over ten years it means mounting a small search.  Not really--it's not like I have that many handguns--even if they all now look like gray pouches.
I shouldn't return to this since you didn't seem to wish to, but I'm of the persuasion that "receiver" is an acceptable synonym for "frame," even with pistols. |
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For reference, the above message is a reply to a message where: Good point - I hadn't thought deeply enough about it to realize we were talking about a blowback-action .22 here where only the bolt itself reciprocates! Maybe that's because I had just recently read about the same usage in the Burke novel I mentioned but in that book Burke was talking about a military 1911/1911A1.
The baby blue part of the 22/45 Lite is indeed part of the receiver. Whether or not only that piece could be called the receiver in total is a much less meaningful semantic exercise. I won't get back into that except to idly wonder where the serial number is marked on these pistols... Stu |
