pairof44sp
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I should have never sold it.
What former p series owners say. Many such examples. Sad!
I should have never sold it.
Had a P345 for a short while but never bonded to it. Didn't like grip ergonomics which felt too square and I couldn't get it to group to my liking with anything I fed it. Traded it towards a Sig P220 (folded carbon steel slide version) and on its first outing it tore a ragged hole in the target with my go-to SWC handload and fit my hand like a glove.
I had a P89 that I bought because it was in great shape with a very distinct and lovely "plum" color to the blued slide. I'm a fan of plum bluing, even though its technically a flawed bluing process.
I shot it a little and thought it to be an average shooter, although comfortable.
One day I was messing with it, unloaded of course, and found by accident that with the safety on and the (empty) magazine in, if you turned it upside down and gave it a little shake, the trigger would start catching. Shake it a little more, and the hammer would start drawing back. Shake it a little more, and yup...the trigger would fully engage, and drop the hammer. All while fully on safe. Just to make sure, I very carefully tried with a loaded chamber, and yes. I could make the gun fire while on safe with a few shakes of my wrist.
I subsequently lost any interest in the P series of Ruger autos and traded that POS off for something that was better in every way.
I don't know what was happening internally. All I know is with the safety functioning normally, on safe you could pull the trigger and the trigger had no resistance, and would not engage the hammer. If you held mine upside down and shook the gun while pulling the trigger, after a few shakes the trigger would start catching on something then slip off and pull back without moving the hammer. Shake it a bit more and the trigger would move the hammer a small amount before slipping off of whatever it was engaging. Shake it a few more times and the trigger would fully engage the hammer, draw it back, and release the hammer.I am confused- The shaking motion would overcome the hammer spring and cycle the DA mechanism?
I don't know what was happening internally. All I know is with the safety functioning normally, on safe you could pull the trigger and the trigger had no resistance, and would not engage the hammer. If you held mine upside down and shook the gun while pulling the trigger, after a few shakes the trigger would start catching on something then slip off and pull back without moving the hammer. Shake it a bit more and the trigger would move the hammer a small amount before slipping off of whatever it was engaging. Shake it a few more times and the trigger would fully engage the hammer, draw it back, and release the hammer.
I could easily fire the gun on safe by shaking the gun upside down for a few seconds.
I don't know what was happening internally. All I know is with the safety functioning normally, on safe you could pull the trigger and the trigger had no resistance, and would not engage the hammer. If you held mine upside down and shook the gun while pulling the trigger, after a few shakes the trigger would start catching on something then slip off and pull back without moving the hammer. Shake it a bit more and the trigger would move the hammer a small amount before slipping off of whatever it was engaging. Shake it a few more times and the trigger would fully engage the hammer, draw it back, and release the hammer.
I could easily fire the gun on safe by shaking the gun upside down for a few seconds.
Edit: my mistake, it was a P85, and the safety is a known issue with a recall
https://ruger.com/P85Recall/index.html