Katana8869
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I have loved my P345 ever since I got it and I have been keeping an eye out for a good deal for another one. However, yesterday I got a call from a friend of mine that works at a gunshop saying that they had just taken in a Ruger P97DC in on a trade. His words were "I'm setting this gun in the back for you. You HAVE to look at this thing.
So being curious, after work I stopped by the shop and examined the gun. There were no wear marks on the gun whatsoever. We both agreed that the gun looked like it had never been fired. I mean it was spotless. It had the box, manual, spare magazine, lock, magazine loading tool, the whole works. I liked the way it felt in my hand and I was surprised at how thin it was. For some reason, I always thought these guns were thicker than they are. I had never held one before so I didn't know any better. In my mind I have always thought that they were wide across the slide and frame like the P90. That is definately not the case with the P97.
Well, I had seen enough. I took it home and lubed it up and got it ready to fire. I found a Wolff 20lb. hammer spring in my parts box and swapped out the factory spring for the lighter one giving the pistol a smoother, lighter trigger pull than it had with the stock spring.
Today I got up and took it out to the property and put 50 rounds through it just to check it out and it shot perfectly. Recoil is a tad sharper than my P345, but it's not bad. I think that the slightly thicker grip fits my hand better than the grip on the P345 and it seems to point a little better too. It is a killer on targets at 7 yards. I will try it out at longer distances later.
I love my P345, but I guess that I have to admit that it's nice to have a Ruger .45 that is "old school" meaning no lawyer mandated B.S. such as mag safeties (I "lost" the one that was in my p345
) and other such nonsense. The gun also is slim enough to carry nicely IWB which is my prefered carry method. So far it seems like a keeper.
Here are my first two targets @ 7 yards, shooting unsupported with a two hand grip. 8 rounds were fired at each one.
I think it did pretty good I screwed up and got a pretty bad flyer on the first target, but I'll just put it off to getting to know the new pistol!
So being curious, after work I stopped by the shop and examined the gun. There were no wear marks on the gun whatsoever. We both agreed that the gun looked like it had never been fired. I mean it was spotless. It had the box, manual, spare magazine, lock, magazine loading tool, the whole works. I liked the way it felt in my hand and I was surprised at how thin it was. For some reason, I always thought these guns were thicker than they are. I had never held one before so I didn't know any better. In my mind I have always thought that they were wide across the slide and frame like the P90. That is definately not the case with the P97.
Well, I had seen enough. I took it home and lubed it up and got it ready to fire. I found a Wolff 20lb. hammer spring in my parts box and swapped out the factory spring for the lighter one giving the pistol a smoother, lighter trigger pull than it had with the stock spring.
Today I got up and took it out to the property and put 50 rounds through it just to check it out and it shot perfectly. Recoil is a tad sharper than my P345, but it's not bad. I think that the slightly thicker grip fits my hand better than the grip on the P345 and it seems to point a little better too. It is a killer on targets at 7 yards. I will try it out at longer distances later.
I love my P345, but I guess that I have to admit that it's nice to have a Ruger .45 that is "old school" meaning no lawyer mandated B.S. such as mag safeties (I "lost" the one that was in my p345
) and other such nonsense. The gun also is slim enough to carry nicely IWB which is my prefered carry method. So far it seems like a keeper.Here are my first two targets @ 7 yards, shooting unsupported with a two hand grip. 8 rounds were fired at each one.
I think it did pretty good
I screwed up and got a pretty bad flyer on the first target, but I'll just put it off to getting to know the new pistol!
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