Light Primer Strikes, WWB and Ruger SR9c

[ratt_finkel]

Went to the range yesterday to test some new CCW pieces. After we were done. Whipped out my fiancés and my Ruger SR9c's for some target practice.

Not two rounds into her first mag she can't get it to fire. Pull the round and sure enough there was a primer strike. Try the same round, no luck. I load 10 in a mag and get 5 FTF. At sporadic intervals.

I then pull my Ruger. Take the rounds that duded in her gun, plus 5 more. And rip all of them off. Then I load ten more in mine, and get one or two duds. No we are both worried, as these are our CCW's. So I loaded our actual carry rounds. Cor-Bon for her, Rangers for me. Shot them all out of her gun without an issue.

I have shot thousands of rounds, including rim fire and never seen this happen. I have heard that WWB might just have a hard primer. But I'm also concerned about the guns not functioning should we need it in a defensive situation.

My gun has less than 600 rounds thorough it, hers has less than 200. I can't remember the last time I cleaned either of them though too. Maybe never LOL. These are the only issues I have had with either of them. Never had any other malfunction.

 

[Hometeached1]

My Dad had light primer strikes on his SR9c as well, until he cleaned out the striker channel ( had a good bit of grease in it). Hope this helps.

 

[Fishbed77]

My Dad had light primer strikes on his SR9c as well, until he cleaned out the striker channel ( had a good bit of grease in it). Hope this helps.
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THIS. ^

Ruger packs a lot of preservative grease in those new pistols.

 

[TarDevil]

Look at the head stamp on the cartridges in question. I've shot a lot of WWB though my SR9c, and the only ones that gave me issues were head stamped WCC. I had a similar thread about a year and a half ago here.

In this case, cleaning the striker channel had no effect. All other ammo has been utterly flawless in my SR9c.

 

[herrwalther]

Some of the compacts also had faulty striker springs causing light strikes. As far as I can remember they were not limited to a year made as some old ones had the issue as well as some new ones. If cleaning out the striker channel or finding the same issue on different ammo, I would call Ruger to arrange it to be sent it. They have always had good CS support.

 

[thomis]

I've been through this several times here on THR with my SR40C. I had the light strikes on a variety of ammo, not just WWB. And I DID clean the striker channel regularly. Lots of folks here falsely blamed me for not keeping the striker channel clean. I even bought the heavier striker spring from Galloway Precision and still experienced the light strikes. Some of those Rugers are just plagued with the light strike issue. I sent it to Ruger and they sent it back in a few days. But they couldn't convince me that it wouldn't happen again so...I sold it. End of story.

 

[thomis]

BTW, I now carry a Kahr.

 

[Jim NE]

Wow. never heard of this before. Thanks for the heads up. My SR9c has recently become my EDC. Have about 200 rounds through it since new with no issues. I'll keep taking it to the range and see if I encounter any problems.

 

[ratt_finkel]

I'm gonna clean it tonight and then it's going to start seeing some serious range duty. I need to feel confident in my EDC as well. I love this gun so I am going to give it the benefit of the doubt.

 

[TarDevil]

I've had over 1,000 error free rounds through my SR9c since the WWB issues.

You can get a bad gun from anyone... you can get bad ammo from anyone. Get some good ammo and shoot the gun, you'll figure it out.

 

[railroader]

I had a SR45 that hated my reloads. It didn't matter what primers or bullets I use I would get about 3 or 4 light strikes per 50 rounds. I also tried a heavier striker spring from Galloway with no luck. I reload for 4 other 45s without problems. The ruger seemed to work with factory ammo though.

 

[JR24]

My SR9c has somewhere between 3500-4000 rounds through it with zero issues (more than a few WWB in there) and my SR40c only has maybe 1000, same story.

Both I cleaned the striker channel before the first shooting (as I had hear that was an issue). Make sure that's cleaned out and (hopefully) you'll be back on track.

 

[tightgroup tiger]

My SR-9 started doing that around 1k rounds and I also cleaned out the striker channel and I'm at around 5-6k through it now and it hasn't done it since.