[client32]

I was at a local gun shop the other day, and they had a Ruger 9mm. I'm sure of the model. I am not familar with Ruger.

While I was playing with it, I couldn't get the decocker to work. It was because the slide stopped short of being fully closed. I kept messing with it and noticed that when I let the slide foward, it would stop just before moving all of the way foward. I wasn't just letting go of the slide to let it slam foward when getting this issue, if I didn't slow it down then it would move all of the way foward. After it stop shy of being fully closed, I could also push it foward the rest of the way.

Again, I am not at all familar with Rugers, and was wondering if this is something that is common, or shouldn't be worried about, or what?

[Lars]

If it is broke Ruger will fix it. I would try some snap caps and let the slide down unassisted. A buddy of mine had a .45 Ruger and we tried to get it to jam by not cleaning it. I think he had over 2000 rounds before he did clean it and not one problem. He ended up selling it because of the weight and getting something different. Here in Portland I get a new 9mm for $259, I was thinking of one for a truck gun.

Lars

[Flashpoint]

I have a P89 that does that. It's really nothing to worry about in my opinion. Also if I ease the slid back and the decocker/saftey is on then the hammer won't fall. All I have to do to get it to fall in nudge the safety switch a little. I have come to the conclusion that the Ruger just likes to be slammed around. :D I have never had it do any of those things, or any other malfunction when firing, no matter how fast I pull the trigger.

[Al Thompson]

It's no big deal. Not unusual for new guns to be tight and wear in after a bit of shooting.

Riding the slide forward will "stick" a lot of guns. The proper way to load the pistol is to release the slide either by tugging on it slightly or swiping off the slide stop. Allow the slide to seat itself at full velocity.

If the gun iss empty, riding the slide is the preferred way to close the slide - prevents excessive wear.

[USGuns]

Ruger's are built like tanks and offer very good reliability, accuracy and durability, especially for the money. Plus I've heard their customer service is excellent, not that I've ever needed it for my KP95...

[client32]

Thanks for all of the info. I'm no planning to buy one right now, just curious for the most part. Since I like this gun store, I normally play nice with their toys.

[Alan Smithiee]

way back when I was taught never "ride" the slide forward. always draw it all the way back and let it go. and yeah, if it's a Ruger they will make good on it, right after I got my 95DC a couple of people had mentioned that they had some problems with loosing the recoil rod spring retaining ring, I dropped Ruger a note to order 2 spare rings (I'm always dropping little things like that so like to have spares). what I got 2 weeks later was 2 rings, the spring, and the rod, on the invoice was "no charge"

according to the parts list that was $35.00 worth of parts.

now if only my car maker was that honest and reliable.

[P95Carry]

Nanaimo ...... same here re the circlip retainer ....... lost mine on P95 at first or second strip down ....... have since managed to reassemble with just a bit more hassle. Think I might drop Rugers a line tho and see if i can get spares.

I tend to agree that the P series ..... in particular the 95DC and 97DC I have, do seem to happily permit quite abrupt slide closures .... both mine have always closed fully on an assisted (restrained) closure but as others have said .... don't think it'd be a biggie as a problem.

Them things will eat ammo .... all you give em!:evil:

[Lars]

Just picked up my MKII today. I bought it used at a local gun store for a very good price, then I found out why. The first day I took it shooting I had 4 or 5 failures to extract in 50 rounds. I was pretty dissapointed. I looked over the gun and found that the extractor was broke off. I wqas a little impressed that it worked as well as it did. Called the gun store and they said they would take it back or I could send it to Ruger for repair. Had a buddy ship it for me. They replaced the whole bolt, repaired the barrel/receiver assembly and grip frame. I've been told that they really go through them when sent in for repairs and I feel they did more than thier fair share at no cost to me. All guns will jam and all guns will break, I think how the factory handles the problems is important.

[Alan Smithiee]

the only problems I've had with my 95DC have been caused by my handloads when I screwed them up, but the darn thing still fed and fired a lot of stuff that it shouldn't have (had a batch of 50 handloads with the crimp AND the OAL wrong, it only choked on maybe 10%)

[243_shooter]

My P89 will do that if the saftey is on and you ride the slide forward very slowly.. just a tap and the slide goes the last 1/16 of an inch and the pistol decocks. You really have to baby the slide forward to get it to do it though. I don't believe it's anything to worry about. I've never had it happen when I wasn't intentionally trying to make it happen..

If I had to do it over again I'd have gotten the decock only version, as the safety is a bit redundant given the long / heavy DA trigger pull.

Leo

[TNT]

My p89 does the same thing. I don't think it's anything to worry about.