Impulse buy, Ruger 95

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Ever buy something you weren't really looking for but just seemed like to good of a deal to pass up?

A guy I work with offered to sell me his Ruger P95, SS safety decocker model. He bought the gun new and carried it for duty for 3 years and the only time he ever shot it was for our quarterly quals. ( I can confirm that, i was RO for a few of those )The rules recently changed where we work we no longer have the option to carry personally owned weapons. Not a huge Ruger fan but when he offered to sell the gun with the original box, 4 factory mags and 1 mecgar after market mag for 200$ that seemed just too good to pass up. I am not a fan of frame mounted safeties but I figure this will make a good truck/Jeep gun. I have always considered Rugers to be "working mans guns" a bit bulky and clunky but over engineered & solid shooters.
 
Great buy! I got my first P series pistol recently, and like it a lot. :)
 
KodeFore said:
Ever buy something you weren't really looking for but just seemed like to good of a deal to pass up?

A guy I work with offered to sell me his Ruger P95, SS safety decocker model... I am not a fan of frame mounted safeties ....
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I'm pretty sure you know what you're talking about, and I'm sure this is just an error, but for clarity, the Ruger P95 has a slide mounted safety/decocker.

Congratulations, by the way.
 
Nothing wrong with the old workhorse p series Rugers, except that slide safety as you mentioned.

I think ya done good for a reliable beater.
 
That's exactly the same scenario in which I bought my P95 a year ago. Same price I paid too, but mine only came with one mag.

They're good solid guns.
 
I have one I bought years ago, like-new, no box, for $300. It's definitely an easy, rock-solid shooter. Carried its department-issued predecessor, the P85, 20 years ago on the job. Could not make it malfunction.

My P95 was an impulse buy as well. No regrets here.
 
P95s are like the 1990s Buick of the gun world. Not pretty, not valuable, will never be collectible, but 20 years from now someone will still be using one daily.

I don´t know where they are coming from, but two guys I know have both purchased 95s in the past three months and I snagged one for a song this summer.

I regret not buying a pile of them when the biggest gun shop in the state was blowing them out for $150 a few years back. One for the tool box, one for the Jeep, one for the car, one for the bathroom, one for...... lol.
 
For $200 you got yourself a nice gun. If you want you $200 back I'm your guy. Honestly though Ruger's are built to last and the 95 like the GP100's are built like a tank and will serve you well for a long long time.
 
I've never shot a P95 but I have a .40 caliber P94. The ergonomics aren't that great (I believe the P95 is probably better in this respect). I don't like the slide mounted safety (wish I had gotten a decock only version). The thing is though it just works & works & I believe it will continue to work. I'd say you made a good buy.
 
The ONLY issue with the P95, right now, is that Ruger is running out of the recoil springs (recoil spring assembly?) and won't sell you one. (They have enough on hand to deal with service work.) I'm sure someone will come up with a workaround, or someone like Wolff will offer a replacement, one of these days.

I had one many years ago -- and it was an accurate, reliable weapon. I was chasing after bigger and better (read "bragging rights", etc.) then, and let a lot of good guns go in that chase.
 
That impulse buy thing has worked out in my benefit many times in the past. Great deal as well. Better get used to it as it will be around for a long time with regular use/maintenance IMHO.
 
A workmate needed 200.00 to make a car payment, I offered to loan him the money and take his P95DC until repayment. He came around a couple months later and said the gun was mine. I kept it about a year. It ran without a hiccup and was as accurate as expected, but I just diden't like it. It was big, clumsy, and ugly. Sold it for 300.00 and bought a 1911. HAPPY CAMPER
 
The P95 was the first handgun I ever bought about 15 years ago. I still have that one and it works great.

They are a bit "clunky" but they run and run without failure.
 
Great Gun it sleeps beside me every night on the night stand .And I sleep good knowing Grandpa is right there !!!!
 
$200 for a P95?... heck yeah! My P85 was one of the few guns I ever sold and I wasn't particulary enamored with it. But I $200 for a reliable truck gun is a great deal these days!

Some of my best deals have been from friends. One was going to trade in his tricked out Springfield 1911 on a Walter at a gun show. I told him I would give him what ever the the merchant gave him. Everyone was happy (except the merchant). Bought a pair of Rem 700 Police rifles off another friend in .223 and .308 for what the car dealer was going to give him for them. Told them both they could buy them back within a year if they wanted. Both of them were happier to see the guns go to me than some stranger. Oh wait, I picked up my XDs the same way.
 
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Flashcube said:
P95s are like the 1990s Buick of the gun world. Not pretty, not valuable, will never be collectible, but 20 years from now someone will still be using one daily.
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I was making a gun deal last year and the seller offered to include a NIB Ruger P90 for an additional $250. It was a great deal so back to the ATM I drove, in my 20 year old Buick Park Ave.
 
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