Hello,
This is my first post on this forum but I thought those looking at the SR9 might be interested.
After several weeks of research, I purchased a new all black SR9 almost 2 weeks ago and have since put 316 rounds through her on 2 trips to the range.
I knew a bit about the SR9 and it's potential "issues" when I went gun-shopping and to be honest I didn't think I would end up with one.
Really, for the money and with it's reputation the P95 is what I figured I would get... until I held one. Let's just say the grip/ergonomics weren't for me... bummer.
Well, If not the p95 then I would open the wallet a little more and go with the Springfield XD9 and even better they had a used one for just under 400 with one mag... add another 30.00 for the extra mag... still not bad.
The XD feels pretty good in my hand. A little heavier and thicker than I was expecting and the bore axis seems to ride a bit high but ergonomically I could definitely live with it once I got used to that grip safety... hmmmm. At this point I'm thinking I should at least hold the SR9. After all, It sure looks nice and that new black one is the same price as the used XD.... plus I pretty much grew up with Ruger's and have always liked them.
That was it. The SR9 just fit my hand better and pointed more naturally for me than anything else I touched so I bought it.
Out of the box I didn't find any serious external quality issues. The front sight was WAY off-center and VERY difficult to move in it's dovetail with hammer and brass punch. As many have reported, the trigger feel is not great. Very gritty and generally "cheap" feeling trigger out of the box... definitely in contrast to the XD's trigger feel. Being a manufacturing engineer I could get real nit picky about the precision with which this guns components are machined but I will not. It seems built with enough precision to do the job but could be better.
So far I have mixed feelings about it after 300+ rounds fired: Accuracy is good, ergonomics are great for me, recoil is very comfortable, but at this point I do not have a warm fuzzy feeling about this guns ability to reliably chamber the next round after every shot.
First Range Trip (straight out of box):
Shot qty.100 Winchester"White Box" 115gr & qty.50 range house brand 115gr rounds. I had a total of 3 failures to chamber the next round fully (return to battery). This occurred with both types of ammo. Maybe limpwristing a little?... I don't know.
Took gun home. Field stripped and cleaned completely (it was pretty grimy and full of grease). Lubed with CLP & reassembled. Did some dry fire practice and worked on my grip. Still don't like the trigger feel so I removed magazine disconnect. This definitely improved the grittiness in the first stage of trigger pull for me so i left it out. Loaded the mags and left them that way for a few days to loosen them up.
Second Range Trip:
Shot qty.166 Remington ShurShot 115gr. The last round of EVERY magazine load failed to return to battery... this was with 2 different mags! I had 1 additional return to battery failure in the middle of a mag as well. My grip was solid for every shot as far as I could tell. Could be the ammo I guess.
I'm going to field-strip, clean and lube again and give it a couple hundred more rounds with different ammo I suppose before I call Ruger but any thoughts/advice is appreciated.
This is my first post on this forum but I thought those looking at the SR9 might be interested.
After several weeks of research, I purchased a new all black SR9 almost 2 weeks ago and have since put 316 rounds through her on 2 trips to the range.
I knew a bit about the SR9 and it's potential "issues" when I went gun-shopping and to be honest I didn't think I would end up with one.
Really, for the money and with it's reputation the P95 is what I figured I would get... until I held one. Let's just say the grip/ergonomics weren't for me... bummer.
Well, If not the p95 then I would open the wallet a little more and go with the Springfield XD9 and even better they had a used one for just under 400 with one mag... add another 30.00 for the extra mag... still not bad.
The XD feels pretty good in my hand. A little heavier and thicker than I was expecting and the bore axis seems to ride a bit high but ergonomically I could definitely live with it once I got used to that grip safety... hmmmm. At this point I'm thinking I should at least hold the SR9. After all, It sure looks nice and that new black one is the same price as the used XD.... plus I pretty much grew up with Ruger's and have always liked them.
That was it. The SR9 just fit my hand better and pointed more naturally for me than anything else I touched so I bought it.
Out of the box I didn't find any serious external quality issues. The front sight was WAY off-center and VERY difficult to move in it's dovetail with hammer and brass punch. As many have reported, the trigger feel is not great. Very gritty and generally "cheap" feeling trigger out of the box... definitely in contrast to the XD's trigger feel. Being a manufacturing engineer I could get real nit picky about the precision with which this guns components are machined but I will not. It seems built with enough precision to do the job but could be better.
So far I have mixed feelings about it after 300+ rounds fired: Accuracy is good, ergonomics are great for me, recoil is very comfortable, but at this point I do not have a warm fuzzy feeling about this guns ability to reliably chamber the next round after every shot.
First Range Trip (straight out of box):
Shot qty.100 Winchester"White Box" 115gr & qty.50 range house brand 115gr rounds. I had a total of 3 failures to chamber the next round fully (return to battery). This occurred with both types of ammo. Maybe limpwristing a little?... I don't know.
Took gun home. Field stripped and cleaned completely (it was pretty grimy and full of grease). Lubed with CLP & reassembled. Did some dry fire practice and worked on my grip. Still don't like the trigger feel so I removed magazine disconnect. This definitely improved the grittiness in the first stage of trigger pull for me so i left it out. Loaded the mags and left them that way for a few days to loosen them up.
Second Range Trip:
Shot qty.166 Remington ShurShot 115gr. The last round of EVERY magazine load failed to return to battery... this was with 2 different mags! I had 1 additional return to battery failure in the middle of a mag as well. My grip was solid for every shot as far as I could tell. Could be the ammo I guess.
I'm going to field-strip, clean and lube again and give it a couple hundred more rounds with different ammo I suppose before I call Ruger but any thoughts/advice is appreciated.