taddster21
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Hey, what are your opinions on a Ruger P95 9mm for a inexpensive handgun? Thanks in advance.
Whoever designed the finish on the grip needs his head checked. It's slicker than a wet bar of soap. For a while I was using the Hogue hand-all universal grip sleeve, but I don't care for the bulky finger grooves in that sleeve, so I removed it after about 1,200 rounds. (point being-- I have it a fair shake, it wasn't a 5-minute idea) I will either go with some kind of 3M style grip tape or maybe a thin bicycle tire inner tube. But something simply has to improve that "slicker 'n snot on a doorknob" plastic grip. IMO, it's easily the worst trait of this pistol.
Next up is the sights... I find them quite small and I would love to have something better for slow, aimed shooting. But this is merely a footnote, not any kind of deal breaker. The sights work, they just aren't great.
Here I could probably add aesthetics-- it's an ugly duck, this pistol. Not a big deal for a working gun that serves a role. But if beauty is in the eye of the beholder, you'd have to be a near-sighted one-eyed guy with contacts, tri-focals and a monocle to find this pistol attractive because on almost any terms you'd judge it, it's ugly.
I love to shoot small groups with slow, aimed fire. I realize that many people don't enjoy this kind of shooting and many people don't bother to work this sort of thing in to their "constant training regiment" and that's okay, that's what makes us all different. This pistol is difficult to shoot small groups with... because of the shorter sight radius, the poor sights and the average trigger. Once again, for the money and the role it fits for me, not at all a deal breaker. But it's still a point I have to make.
So I'm blaming the pistol, and you can't stop me! (even if we both know that it's not likely to be the pistols fault)
I didn't like the magazine release at all...it's small and less sure than the typical release.
You don't press inward so much as forward.
I also didn't care for the decocker/safety design and location.
I'm also not such a big fan of SA/DA pistols in general.
It's a good pistol for the price.
But I think the SR series is definitely a step up and not for much more money.
It's just a piece of inner-tube.mgmorden:
easyg: is that just an inner-tube on your P95's grip or is it something more purpose built?
While the location of the magazine release is virtually the same, the one on the P95 is smaller, requires a forward push, and just doesn't work as well.While the magazine release is a forward motion, it's in the exact same place as the SR9C.
Not true.The decocker/safety location is in the same place as virtually all new pistols.
True.Not being a fan of DA/SA is a personal opinion that has nothing to do with others use of a gun.
I'm not exactly rolling in dough, but an additional $100 bucks is not that much more when it comes to handguns.The MSRP of the P95 is $393-424. The MSRP n the SR9C is $525.00. Even discounting them for street prices leaves the SR9C about $100 more.