Most Common Parts to Break (Specifically Ruger P95)
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rbernie
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Magazines are the single most wearable item - spend all of your money on spare magazines and let Ruger stock the small bits.
It's pretty tough to break the P95 anyway.
My guess would be there are two ways to look at a P95 in your collection. If it's pristine and you want to play the long game, you could put it back and wait for it to appreciate (marginally) in price as parts MIGHT not be available for it forever and ever.
However, for what you paid for it, by the time you shoot the barrel out and wear out a couple sets of springs Ruger probably has half a warehouse of, if it's truly obsolete and irreparable you've more than got your $300-400 worth out of the old warhorse.
I too would just snap up a bunch of mags if you can find them at a good price. If you use them, great. If you need them, even better. If not, you should always have a buyer on the second hand market.
I think parts will be easy to come by for a good long while. The P95 was probably the most successful of the P-series.
My guess would be there are two ways to look at a P95 in your collection. If it's pristine and you want to play the long game, you could put it back and wait for it to appreciate (marginally) in price as parts MIGHT not be available for it forever and ever.
However, for what you paid for it, by the time you shoot the barrel out and wear out a couple sets of springs Ruger probably has half a warehouse of, if it's truly obsolete and irreparable you've more than got your $300-400 worth out of the old warhorse.
I too would just snap up a bunch of mags if you can find them at a good price. If you use them, great. If you need them, even better. If not, you should always have a buyer on the second hand market.
I think parts will be easy to come by for a good long while. The P95 was probably the most successful of the P-series.
I am guessing repair parts will be available for a long time. Ruger sold a ton of P95's to prisons, rural LE agencies, foreign militaries, as well as the civilian market. The gun has been around almost 2 decades now, and I can't think of a post of a broken part on one. Maybe buy a spring kit on the off chance you will need it 20 years down the road.
danez71
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Just for reference......
Ruger still supports the PC9 and that was only made for 10 yrs and has already been discontinued for 8 yrs. And I bet they made far less of those.
Spare parts are good of course.... but I wouldn't worry about it.
Ruger still supports the PC9 and that was only made for 10 yrs and has already been discontinued for 8 yrs. And I bet they made far less of those.
Spare parts are good of course.... but I wouldn't worry about it.
Walt Sherrill
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You might save money on mags, since you already have a bunch, and get MAG SPRINGS (from Wolff). (If you're really feeling paranoid/concerned about parts availability, look at the parts list in the owner's manual and pick up two of each of the springs shown in the manual, again. If they have them, pick up a couple of followers for the mags.)
Generally speaking, Ruger pistols -- if they get past the first weeks (during which you find something wrong, like a barrel that isn't right) -- tend to not need much in the way of repairs.
Generally speaking, Ruger pistols -- if they get past the first weeks (during which you find something wrong, like a barrel that isn't right) -- tend to not need much in the way of repairs.
WardenWolf
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Most common part to break? Your bank, from the cost of ammo. Seriously, the Ruger P-Series guns are some of the most overengineered tanks ever made. I've never heard of one wearing out. Parts will probably be available directly from Ruger for longer than your lifetime. The only firearm Ruger has ever truly dropped support for was the full-auto version of the Mini-14. They never sold very many of them and the few they did sell have long since been replaced with better rifles.
BSA1
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About the most important part I can think of would be a extra firing pin...say I think I will take that advise myself.
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