Have you ever broken a Ruger handgun?

[Josey]

Do parts flying off count? Ruger Vaqueros in 44-40. The cylinder pin went to the moon in one revolver. The ejector rod launched itself on the other. I put quite a bit of parts and work into both revolvers for CAS use. Rugers do fall apart.

 

[P95Carry]

Cordex .... As Gary noticed ... some milling marks but yeah .. I can see the ''shiny'' corner where you dressed with file .. but that is effectively lower left and perypheral, with respect to where case seats..... but unusual and I am still wondering how it got that way, like you.

The closest thing to that area is the ejector and up front the breech face is just a plain surface ... so, wonder if a bad eject sometime temprarily distorted the ejector tip enough to make it impinge on that corner a bit at end of slide travel .. pretty far fetched tho eh!

And then marks in receiver.... which had to be secondary.

Bit of a mystery so far .. but at least it seems you have good and normal junction. See if anyone else can form a hypothesis here.

 

[WheelMan]

I've never broken my Vaq, but that's not a good example as most of the guts weren't made by ruger. My buddy did manage to break some internal bit of his .22/45 It still worked, but something was cracked in half, little tab that holds the mainspring I think.

 

[sturmruger]

Anyonw notice how most of the reports of mangled guns come from people that were trying some hot new reload they they had messed up. I think that is why I have not started reloading. I am not real good at details and I am kind of afraid at what I would screw up. I would hate to blow up my Security Six just because I made a mistake.

 

[Gus Dddysgrl]

Mine seems to be working well. I love my Ruger SP101. It's my first and only. I have only shot handloads out of it. Nothing went wrong and some of them were HOT. I'm not sur ehow hot, but you can ask my dad he did them for me for my first time shooting it a while back. Gotta love having daddy around to do things for me.

Thanks daddy!!!!

 

[mec]

I've seen one omsbh blown up from using unique at 2400 levels.
Have tossed two ejector assemblys myself using upper end 300+ grain bullet loads. One was screwed directly into the barrel and I just replaced the screw. The other was of the old silver soldered bushing type- Ruger fixed that and restored the stainless finish at the same time.

A gunsmith showed me a Single six all out of time due to the broken hammer/locking bolt plunger as mentioned above. He said this happens every now and then because the part is very hard and has a square cut for the retaining pin. I suspect that letting the part get gunked up may cause this as might trying to force cock the gun.

 

[45Hoop]

Knew there was a reason

to buy another Ruger

It'll outlast me and my kids

Iv'e only seen exploded cylinders due to heat and "stupidity"

 

[Cosmoline]

I once had an early-production single six that had been badly abused and was going for like $50 at a pawn shop. The metal on the grip was badly scraped, the wood stock busted, and the trigger guard dented. The force required to do this must have been enormous. Out of curiousity I beat it against a steel log maul and was unable to add any more damage other than some scratched blue. My bet is it actually got run over by a truck. The internal parts were unharmed and the trigger was among the sweetest single action triggers I ever felt. I would have sent it to Ruger for a refurb, but was afraid they'd monkey with the trigger. A collector bought it off me for $200.

 

[orangeninja]

Yes I have.....I had bought a brand new Ruger P97 with black slide. Within the first 200 rounds the slide lock popped out and the pistol locked tight with the slide semi retracted with a live round IN THE CHAMBER!!! the smith had to bang the slide off with a hammer.

Sent it back to Ruger, it came back, same problem. Ruger sent a new slide lock pin....same problem....now at this rate someone was going to get hurt due to it jamming on a live round and everytime the smith got out a hammer.

Sent back to Ruger demanding a new gun.

Ruger P97 $350.00
Shipping to and from $80.00
Smith work $35-$45

Getting rid of it for peace of mind....priceless.

BTW...I was using standard ball manufactured ammo from PMC...Winchester and Sellier&Belloit

Never did get 300 rounds through it.

 

[MCNamVet]

Kor,
The yellow disk in Ruger revolvers is to show the gun is not loaded, NOT for dry firing, as is stated in the owners manual. I've dry fired Rugers without snapcaps since the '80s, as they say you can, and never had a problem. Trigger action just smoothed out a whole lot quicker.

 

[Shooter973]

Broken Ruger handguns?

It sounds like they hold up pretty well unless they are abused or "Hotrodded" badly. Some times screws do come undone and such but that can happen on any piece of equipment. Only looks like one handgun that has really broken and that may have been a manufaturing problem . Thanks Guys!

 

[Treylis]

I've shot my dad's Blackhawk in .44 mag a fair bit... looking over the gun, that thing is a tank, I doubt it's going to break anytime soon by either him or me, even with the hot loads he puts into it sometimes.

 

[Bwana]

Ruger breakages

By the way this is the old "KP95DAO". I switched providers and a new THR name.

I and my oldest have each had a KP95 break, twice each. On my KP95DAO it broke on the narrrow ledge that supports the trigger. I also had the tip of the unlocking lug on the barrel break off, about 1/8".

My son had his KP95DC frame break on the loop that holds the off side of the hammer pin. The front half of the loop broke off. He also lost about 1/16" of his unlocking lug on his barrel.

While my gun had seen some warm loads his had nothing but 125 power factor IDPA loads although it had had about 7000 of them. Mine had had about 2000 "warm" loads and about 5000 IDPA loads. This was at the point the barrels broke. Ruger replaced the barrels free and later when the frames broke they replaced them free of charge also. We have had no problems since then. Even with him making it to SSP/Master in IDPA with his Ruger (a lot of rounds down range). He uses a Glock 34 now and I use a G23 for competition.

I have also sheared off two ejector rod housings that were on my Ruger SBHs. I customizd my stainless 10&1/2" with an eight inch Dan Wesson shroud (using the original bbl chopped, turned down and threaded). The other 10&1/2 blued is stock and I just leave the ejector rod off.

Other than replacing the firing pin bushings on the stainless SBH and on my blued 357 BH there have no other malfunctions; either induced by me or otherwise.

 

[Dr.Rob]

Dad has. yep. That broke easy son you'll have to get a NEW one of them.

Though I'm still unsure how his nuclear 300gr TXP bullets actually unscrewed the barrel.. but thats what appears to have happened to his SBH 44 Magnum. Saw him squib his GP-100 (oops there wasn't any powder in that case) bullet stuck on the throat of the barrel, cylinder locked up tight... hmmmmm. Saw dad take a loaded black hawk and use it as a hammer.. totally chipping a set of cocobolo grips... (Dad ummm... thats a LOADED $##^% gun you are using as a hammer!!!) dad says.. oh yeah you are right... takes up big rock and continues to try to cut through elk. Breaks knife.

Dads can be hard headed sometimes.

 

[tiberius]

yep, the paint flaked off the Al backstap of my Super Single Six.

None of my other Ruger revolvers have EVER had a problem and I also don't know anyone who has personally had a real Ruger revolver failure.

 

[Tim L]

I had the firing pin spring break on a 2 month old Single Six while dry firing it, without snap caps. I may have had 300 rds through it at the time. I now use snap caps.

Tim

 

[COK]

No, several thousand rds through a few different Rugers , never a problem.

 

[Maddock]

Like Old Fuff, I had the trigger spring break on an old stainless SecuritySix in 1974. Ruger mailed me two replacement springs that day with an apology letter.
I have also seen SBKs that were blown up with overcharges of fast powder and witnessed a 6" SecuritySix damaged when someone fired a max charge load with the Sierra 170gr after a cartridge without powder. Lots of noise, bulged the barrel, case stuck in cylinder but no injury to the shooter.

 

[Cosmose]

Ruger.......my favorite brand

i own three rugers a single six a 22/45 and a p95
the single six no problems at all but a pin did break on my 22/45 after a few thousand rounds called ruger sent me another one FREE. and my p95 had a ring to come off, it's the one that holds the recoil spring to the recoil spring guide rod. it worked fine with out it (just a little harder to field strip)....but called ruger and they sent me another ring Free it fell off and i called again and they sent me a whole new guide rod and recoil spring once again Free......can't complain with that
my 22/45 will feed everthing but winchester x point
and my p95 will feed everthing

 

[fastbolt]

Well, I've sent 3 back to the factories (2 revos & a pistol) for defective parts replacement ... repaired three others myself ... and traded off another that just didn't seem worth the effort, being one of "those guns" you wish you'd never bought in the first place.

I think they're excellent values for the money ... very well designed, robust and affordably produced ... accurate enough for reasonable use for most owners ... and the SA revolvers are my favorite of all time ...

 

[Jim K]

Yes, on an old Mk I (the target model) I had one of the rear "legs" break off the recoil spring guide after heaven knows how many rounds. A call to Gun Parts made for a quick fix. Actually, the gun still worked; I found the problem when cleaning it.

BTW, I don't consider wrecking a gun with an overload as "breaking" it.

Jim

 

[wintermute76]

Only problem I ever had was the spring pin in the bottom of my Single Six hammer snapped in two, pretty much locked it up. Ruger sent me a new one free, disassembled it, installed and no problems since. No problems on my Super Redhawk .44, MkII, or 2 of my 10/22's.
Replaced some parts on my oldest 10/22, probably due to the first 75000 rounds thru it Still runs like a champ.

 

[Buzz]

I have broken a GP 100 before. After approx 500 rounds the cylinder crane latch split. Ruger replaced the cylinder and the crane mechanism and it now has about 10,000 rounds on it.

 

[dodge]

Yes I have. I had a Ruger Blackhawk in .45 LC that the gripframe broke on while I was shooting it. The loads were Ruger loads from the Hornady manual. I bought this gun used so I don't know what the previous owner used in it or how much he used it. Sent it back to Ruger with a note explaining everything and they fixed the gripframe and overhauled the pistol in general replacing a few other parts that I wasn't even aware of being bad free of charge. One of my kids in college needed some money quick so I sold that pistol but have since replaced it. I also own three other Ruger handguns plus a couple of their long guns.

 

[8ring]

The single action sear on my GP-100 has given up the ghost after about 4,000 rounds and a much higher number of dryfires with a snapcap.
The hammer can now be easily pushed off when cocked. Off to the 'smith for some new parts and more dryfiring to smooth it all out again.

My Mark II Target Model has never had a FTF or FTE in about 2,000 rounds. A few misfires on some bogus Federal Target rounds were the only problems. The Federals also misfired in my Remington and CZ .22 rifles.

Chris