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My truck gun is a P89 DAO 9mm that was part of a special run built for Chicago's PD. Apparently Chicago canceled the order and the guns eventually hit the distributors. It's like a 15 shot revolver, kinda.
Since we're talking about these pistols, I want to ask those who were around in the late 80s when these came out, what was the draw to choosing these over other semi auto pistols at the time? Was it solely the price (I read on wikipedia these were $100 less than other semi autos) or was there not much to choose from back then for higher capacity/doublestack semi auto pistols?
I was 21 years old when they were coming out. For me it was how tough and heavily built they looked. I liked the ruggedness of them. The Beretta 92 and the S&W semi-auto's just looked fragile next to the P89 in my opinion back then. The price was the other good thing.
Yes the P95 and P97 do. And I have seen some with over 50,000 rds through them at near 19 years old and they hardly show any wear and tear on the slide rails. I used to worry about that but they do last . I dont have any pics of the rails but I'm sure a member above can post some.
I bought the first iteration of the p series back in the mid 1980's. I don't usually like to speak poorly of things unless it is truly warranted, but that thing was a pig. Reliability was not perfect and accuracy was really poor. IIRC, right out of the box it shot 15 to 18 inches high at 50 feet. I traded it very shortly after getting it. The only auto pistol I will buy from Ruger now is the 22LR Mark series.
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