Ruger SR 9, my wife and blazer ammo

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My wife bought a Ruger SR 9 the other day.. took that beauty to the range and we put some 115gn blazer ammo through that pipe.... Stoppage after stoppage! I know it wasn't the pistol and has to be that blazer ammo. Since I've been reloading for my .45 auto, We found a few cans of Unique and picked up the dies brass and primers for her 9mm. Loaded up her ammo and as soon as possible we will test out the goods.. we started with unique 5.6 gns 10 rounds,. 5.8gns 10 rounds and 6.0gns 10 rounds. The speer manual says that 6.3gns is a hot load and I'm not ready to go there yet.:)
 
Weird, We ran it flawless in a Sig and a Glock 19. Maybe a break in period needed for the SR9.

How do you know its not the gun, when you never ran any other ammo thru it?
 
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Weird, We ran it flawless in a Sig and a Glock 19. Maybe a break in period needed for the SR9.

How do you know its not the gun, when you never ran any other ammo thru it?
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Brand new gun my first thought would be an issue with the gun

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I don't use Blazer Brass a lot but I have shot a couple of hundred rounds without any issue in my BHP and in a Grand Power K100
 
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Blazer brass is just fine.

In my experience, the SR9 is also just fine, but maybe there is some dirt or buildup behind the extractor? ejector is bent? something like that.

disassemble and clean all of that.. check it over. oil and reassemble.

Now, one thing, you say "stoppages" that's fairly general. how and when and what kind of stoppage is more important in the diagnosis.

now, its possible that the lighter load of the basic plinking 115grn ammo is not powerful enough to reliably cycle the action in a brand new pistol. Mine had a noticeable stiffness to it when it was new and it was easy for me to "limp wrist" it if I wanted to. Once the spring cycled a few hundred times it was a bit more pliable.

To be fair, I have replaced the main spring with a lighter one, and added a second very small spring behind the extractor claw to make sure it really grips the case. Since then its not had one malf of any type, but before it was fairly easy to make it malf if you limp wristed it or if you had light loads in it.
 
I suspect that its the lighter load doing this and maybe as one other member said, it might just be the pistol. and since we just purchased this, we are just beginning to to our research.
I had completely stripped apart that pistol, cleaned it and a light coating of CLP on all the working parts prior to our first trip to the range. We will head back to the range on monday to see how the pistol performs with the reloads. More to follow.
 
armouredtrooper said:
I suspect that its the lighter load doing this and maybe as one other member said, it might just be the pistol. and since we just purchased this, we are just beginning to to our research.
I had completely stripped apart that pistol, cleaned it and a light coating of CLP on all the working parts prior to our first trip to the range. We will head back to the range on monday to see how the pistol performs with the reloads. More to follow.
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Store the firearm with the slide locked back for a week, Then try the Blazer ammo again. But If the ammo worked in a SAM 9, a Glock 19, Sig 226, various other guns. I suspect its your gun.
 
My Glock34 didn't like the 115 blazer. I haven't tried it since, it may have been just where the gun was new but I did have trouble with that particular ammo.
 
Every experience is different. What were the stoppages?
Depending on shooter experience it could be limp wrist, when my wife started out she was limping it so there were some stoppages.

Having said that I have had some issues with Blazer in the past.
Switch out the Blazer with a different cartridge, things may improve.
 
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