Range Day for Ruger PC Carbine

[chicharrones]

I have the 1997 model Police Carbine and a P94 pistol. It is fantastic fun. The new PCC seems al View attachment 898862 most as good as the original....(OK I'm biased)

I love the looks of the original.

 

[Bartojc]

Anyone have one of the chassis models with adjustable stock ? I priced one today. This thread doesn’t help matters.

Jeff

 

[Texas10mm]

Anyone have one of the chassis models with adjustable stock ? I priced one today. This thread doesn’t help matters.

Jeff

I'd like to have the one that's like the PPSh.

 

[Navy87Guy]

I think pistol caliber carbines are highly underrated! I don’t have the Ruger, but my Beretta CX-4 Storm (9mm) is my “go to” gun (after my shotgun) for home defense. Having a metric butt ton of 92 mags, I’m never worried about running low!

 

[mrmike7189]

I had an original PC4. If it had taken Glock magazines, I’d still have it. Great gun.

The beautiful thing about it is there is a "metric butt ton" of magazines both new and used available on almost every gun web page for the P series pistols

I have over a dozen myself and I am always buying more for cheap....On ebay you can name your ownprice .
(They are almost giving them away!)

 

[Legionnaire]

Yup. Not a fan of the P-series pistols. That Ruger built the original PC9 and PC4 to take their own pistol magazines makes it clear that they understood the attraction of a carbine and pistol that shared magazines. IMHO, it was a misstep to only make the PCs capable of using Ruger magazines given the huge popularity of Glock pistols, especially since the original "PC" stood for "Police Carbine" rather than "Pistol Caliber," if I remember correctly. You want this rifle to be popular with police forces? Make it available compatible with the most popular pistol platform of the time. I was already shooting Glocks, and was disinclined to buy proprietary magazines for a pistol caliber carbine. YMMV.

 

[mrmike7189]

Yup. Not a fan of the P-series pistols. That Ruger built the original PC9 and PC4 to take their own pistol magazines makes it clear that they understood the attraction of a carbine and pistol that shared magazines. IMHO, it was a misstep to only make the PCs capable of using Ruger magazines given the huge popularity of Glock pistols, especially since the original "PC" stood for "Police Carbine" rather than "Pistol Caliber," if I remember correctly. You want this rifle to be popular with police forces? Make it available compatible with the most popular pistol platform of the time. I was already shooting Glocks, and was disinclined to buy proprietary magazines for a pistol caliber carbine. YMMV.

At the time,they were marketing those PC carbines, I think most Police Depts were carrying S&W 59 series pistols and/or Beretta 92's. I didn't see Glocks in all the Police holsters until the early 2000's. at least around my area ,they never switched to Glock until the 40S&W craze. Here is a Ruger ad for their Police pistol circa 1994, definitely was not very popular

 

[CarJunkieLS1]

I was at the LGS where I bought my Ruger Carbine and I was telling them how satisfied with it I was. I told them I swapped the mag well for the Glock mags and the conversation went to the original PC4 and PC9. The owner said that the owner of the largest gun shop around here told Ruger back then if they wanted it to sell that it needed to be Glock compatible and well it failed...now fast forward and they are Glock compatible and selling like hotcakes.

No idea if any of that is true but making it Glock mag compatible was a smart move.