REAPER4206969
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The P95 is consistently in the top five best selling handguns list.
You can't get anymore popular than that.
You can't get anymore popular than that.
Ruger p95 question
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EastKY_DO
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No one should be shy about owning a P-95. It's one of the few guns that I would carry for protection without a break-in. I don't like doing that with any gun, but I have shot enough P-95s to trust the reliability of them to that degree. I have 2 of them. One is an older decocker model with the smooth frame & no rail that has digested upwards of 10,000 rounds, including brass, aluminum & steel cased ammo, several hundred (thousand?) reloads both when clean & filthy. I've had it so dirty that the slide was perceptibly slower in cycling, but the gun kept on chugging. The newer one with the manual safety wears a rail mounted light & is my primary 'nightstand' gun. I also have the P-95's older brother the P-93 that has also been utterly reliable for thousands of rounds. All three are as accurate as most any other service sized pistol that I have in my collection, with the exception of a couple of tuned target shooters. I don't find the P-95 particularly more bulky than my Springfield XD-45 and it's certainly less bulky than my Glock 20. Both of my sons have & shoot P-95s & they work just fine for them too.
Doc
Doc
I have previously owned 2 - I bought them as beater guns. New for $300. Cheapest 9mm I'd buy for self defense.
I didn't really care for the SA trigger. If you cocked the gun by hand - as you pulled the trigger. THere was movement, then a "catch" where you might expect the gun to fire. But then you had to pull it some more, and THEN it would go off. I always found the SA trigger to be not so good compared to Beretta 92s and other DA/SA guns.
But, the gun is reliable. There is a local LEO here that carries one. It wouldn't be my 1st choice, if I carried as an LEO. But, the gun is reliable.
I didn't really care for the SA trigger. If you cocked the gun by hand - as you pulled the trigger. THere was movement, then a "catch" where you might expect the gun to fire. But then you had to pull it some more, and THEN it would go off. I always found the SA trigger to be not so good compared to Beretta 92s and other DA/SA guns.
But, the gun is reliable. There is a local LEO here that carries one. It wouldn't be my 1st choice, if I carried as an LEO. But, the gun is reliable.
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