Ruger P345 safety/decocker

[Dogguy]

Is an extended lever available for the Ruger P345 safety/decocker?

I like the gun. I shoot it well. It has been 100% reliable with everything I've loaded into it. But I hate the design of the decocker/safety. The decocker/safety lever is way too stiff. Combine the stiffness of operation with the thinness of the lever and it means I only decock the gun and never put it on safe.

 

[gudel]

It's not too stiff on mine, maybe you need to drop some oils in it? Put it inside the slide on the safety opening and see if it lightens.

 

[jmr40]

I prefer the guns with the decocker only anyway. I'd just leave it as is.

 

[DenaliPark]

Is an extended lever available for the Ruger P345 safety/decocker?

I like the gun. I shoot it well. It has been 100% reliable with everything I've loaded into it. But I hate the design of the decocker/safety. The decocker/safety lever is way too stiff. Combine the stiffness of operation with the thinness of the lever and it means I only decock the gun and never put it on safe.

Honestly, you should be grateful its stiff, the KP345 safety spring is usually too SOFT, resulting in the mechanism falsely engaging itself during live fire. It disables the pistol after only moving downward about an 16th of an inch...I've seen it happen on multiple P345's where the spring softens up just enough fo it to drop that 16th, rendering the pistol nulled....

 

[Dogguy]

DenaliPark--I've never heard of this happening on the P345 but, then again, I've never heard of a lot of things. (And, from looking at your past posts on the subject, you have a talent for finding fault with the P345.)

Gudel--I've tried several types of oil as well as two types of grease but the lever is still too hard to move reliably with only the side of my thumb.

Jmr40--I prefer decocker only as well. But the P345 only comes in the safety/decocker style now and I really like the gun except for that lever.

I guess I'll just continue use the lever as a decocker only, returning the lever to the off-safe position after loading. I would never consider carrying it with the safety engaged because I could never disengage it in an emergency.

The current Rugers seem to have a knack for having unusable safeties--at least for me. I tried the SR9 and found the safety on it to be too small and completely out of reach for my grip. Again, the gun is perfectly safe to use without ever using the safety. Just treat it like a Glock.

Maybe Ruger's designers have long, powerful thumbs. Maybe my thumbs are too short and weak....