schmeky
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Got to hold and examine an SR-9 today. The trigger felt like I was trying to drive a shovel through a pile of coarse rocks.
Dang.
Dang.
Ruger SR-9, Uhh, Well, Er....
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I handled one a couple of weeks ago. The grip is too narrow for me. It felt like I was holding a giant popsicle stick.
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Glad you don't like it...
I love my SR-9... a thousand rounds near the center of the target changes your attitudes about how they feel and shoot. I had to do a little adjustment with the "turnover" grip pad, and get accustomed to gripping the pistol without pulling the barrel down (I have a "good grip") and haven't had a single problem from it.
If the trigger's tacky, or rough, do a little "smoothe up" on it, and start pouring out the rounds. If it's too skinny for you, buy a grip pad to fatten it up.
I can't remember shooting a smoother gun... and mine's dead on. Ruger's recalling the early ones to fix a "dropping problem" which causes the gun to fire if dropped with one in the chamber... but I've loved every minute of shooting mine.
If you're "dry firing" a striker fired pistol, I hope you have an empty magazine in it, or else you'll damage the striker mechanism, but from my experience with mine... I can't imagine the problems you guys describe.
WT
I love my SR-9... a thousand rounds near the center of the target changes your attitudes about how they feel and shoot. I had to do a little adjustment with the "turnover" grip pad, and get accustomed to gripping the pistol without pulling the barrel down (I have a "good grip") and haven't had a single problem from it.
If the trigger's tacky, or rough, do a little "smoothe up" on it, and start pouring out the rounds. If it's too skinny for you, buy a grip pad to fatten it up.
I can't remember shooting a smoother gun... and mine's dead on. Ruger's recalling the early ones to fix a "dropping problem" which causes the gun to fire if dropped with one in the chamber... but I've loved every minute of shooting mine.
If you're "dry firing" a striker fired pistol, I hope you have an empty magazine in it, or else you'll damage the striker mechanism, but from my experience with mine... I can't imagine the problems you guys describe.
WT
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WT, what other handguns do you shoot? Not ragging on you, but most people who shoot 1911s (or anything else with a decent trigger) will tell you that the SR9's trigger pull is definitely lacking. "Like trying to snap a wet twig" as someone I know put it.
schmeky
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I wanted one. I have no doubt they will be reliable and durable and are backed by Ruger. . . . . but. . . . I'm a big 1911 fan and I know it wouldn't be long before I was either trying to do a home gunsmith trigger job (probably a bad idea), or just put it on a shelf and grab my Kimber, Colt, or Norinco.
Dang.
Dang.
Well, there you have it! No 1911 fan would like it. Or any striker-fire, or DAO trigger for that matter.
I'm a 1911 fan myself. I'm trying to learn to love the new guns out there. It's hard. That said, the SR9 trigger is one of the better ones. And that is sad.
There is nothing in this world like a SA 1911 trigger when it's right.
greener
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I've fired a few rounds from an SR9. Didn't notice anything spectacularly bad about the trigger and the rounds seemed to go toward the center of the target. I put it on my list of pistols to consider if I found one at the right price. Yeah, the trigger isn't nearly as good as my 1911 or my MKII/III rimfires. Overall, didn't seem like a bad pistol.
nwilliams
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I don't mind the trigger on mine at all, you can't convince me its as bad as some people say. The tigger does also improve the more rounds you put through it.
Quiet
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Heads up. If you're Ruger SR9 was made from 10-2007 through 04-2008, it's being recalled due to a safety issue.
www.ruger-firearms.com/Firearms/N-Firearms_News.html#
www.ruger-firearms.com/Firearms/N-Firearms_News.html#
ftierson
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10-2007 to 04-2008...?
Is that all of them?
Forrest
Is that all of them?
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TimboKhan
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Reading the safety announcement, that does indeed appear to be all of them.
As to the trigger, it has been written a hundred times that with no magazine in the pistol, the trigger is going to feel like absolute crap, and in fact, dry-firing thus will damage the gun. It has also been written a hundred times that the trigger will smooth up with shooting. This shouldn't be news to anyone, as many guns smooth up after a couple of hundred rounds. Thats sort of a standard break-in procedure. Even the venerable 1911 gets better once the parts have worn in a little bit...
As to the trigger, it has been written a hundred times that with no magazine in the pistol, the trigger is going to feel like absolute crap, and in fact, dry-firing thus will damage the gun. It has also been written a hundred times that the trigger will smooth up with shooting. This shouldn't be news to anyone, as many guns smooth up after a couple of hundred rounds. Thats sort of a standard break-in procedure. Even the venerable 1911 gets better once the parts have worn in a little bit...
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Wes,
I didn't notice the trigger being a particular problem in my gun, so I guess I assumed that all of them were equally as smoothe. It has become smoother with a thousand rounds through it, but any mechanical system like that smoothes out with use... unless it's poorly designed and either breaks or wears into worse condition. "Knocking off the manufacturing edges" is pretty common for any machined parts.
Like cars... you have to hope you don't get one that's built just before the lunch whistle or on Friday at quitting time.
Doesn't matter, however, I've got to send it back to Ruger to get a new trigger group in it. I'll let you know when I get it back as to how the "fix" works.
WT
I didn't notice the trigger being a particular problem in my gun, so I guess I assumed that all of them were equally as smoothe. It has become smoother with a thousand rounds through it, but any mechanical system like that smoothes out with use... unless it's poorly designed and either breaks or wears into worse condition. "Knocking off the manufacturing edges" is pretty common for any machined parts.
Like cars... you have to hope you don't get one that's built just before the lunch whistle or on Friday at quitting time.
Doesn't matter, however, I've got to send it back to Ruger to get a new trigger group in it. I'll let you know when I get it back as to how the "fix" works.
WT
SeanMTX asked:
My Hi-Point carbine had the most horrid trigger I'd ever shot, leaving my trigger finger very sore for the first 100 rounds or so. After that first 100 though, it smoothed out very nicely and the carbine is one of my most fun guns to shoot.
I too, thought the SR-9 trigger sucked, but expect that it would indeed get much better with time & rounds.
Sam
My Hi-Point carbine had the most horrid trigger I'd ever shot, leaving my trigger finger very sore for the first 100 rounds or so. After that first 100 though, it smoothed out very nicely and the carbine is one of my most fun guns to shoot.
I too, thought the SR-9 trigger sucked, but expect that it would indeed get much better with time & rounds.
Sam
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My kahr started out with what I though was a hard trigger, but after 200 rounds it was much better. I now have 9900 flawless rounds through it and the trigger system is as smooth as glass. I feel the more you shoot any gun the better some things it will work. Only gun that never smoothed for me was my kt 380. started ruff, stayed that way but it was still manageable..never was a target gun anyway.
My kahr started out with what I though was a hard trigger, but after 200 rounds it was much better. I now have 9900 flawless rounds through it and the trigger system is as smooth as glass. I feel the more you shoot any gun the better some things it will work. Only gun that never smoothed for me was my kt 380. started ruff, stayed that way but it was still manageable..never was a target gun anyway.
Handyguy
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Does that trigger really get better? Or do you just get used to it? I hear people saying this all the time. It would seem hard to believe that the parts would wear so much in such a short time that everything would suddenly feel smoother, then stop wearing away to be a wonderful, long lasting, piece. How many rounds are we talking about to feel smooth?
Desertscout
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Out of the top name-brand pistols, I think the SR-9 has the very worst trigger out there except for the maybe Sigma and the Kel-Tec P-11.
No, it won't. Maybe the SR-9, I don't know of any other "striker-fired pistol" that is damaged by dry practicing without a mag in it.
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I had one of these, early production run, serial number under 1500. Top of the barrel was starting to peen, meaning the metal was becoming deformed. Magazines wouldn't load properly, although I will give it to Ruger, they sent me several replacements and a new loading tool. The other problem I had was the trigger pull. It wasn't only a long trigger pull, which I expected, it had no clear break. I had several unexpected "early fires" in the trigger pull, and several times I would pull the trigger and expect a bang, nothing happened, pulled a little further and then it fired. I was never, EVER able to locate the break point. I sold it. It was a fine pistol once they get the bugs fixed. It feels and looks great, just quite a few bugs.
ftierson
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Speaking of potential dry-firing damage, Beretta also warns against dry-firing the PX4, but it has a conventional hammer (and polymer frame, of course).
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