Ruger PC Carbine

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I kinda regret buying mine because whenever I go into the bush and just want a carbine to bring along I take my 12" Henry .357 mag lever because it has so much more oomph than my 9MM PCC.
 
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I kinda regret buying mine because whenever I go into the bush and just want a carbine to bring along I take my 12" Henry .357 mag lever because it has so much more oomph than my 9MM PCC.
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Yeah, 9mm is more for a "fun plinking gun" than a "great hunting gun"... i'll take a 357 lever action or 12g pump short shotgun if i'm planning some hunting too. But i still want a Ruger PC for all these funny days!
 
I had to try, right?

I have found them still for sale, cheapest I've seen is $840 right now, I'm very much on the fence. If I could move something out of approx. same value it would make it so much easier, but like most here, I don't really like getting rid of any guns, even to make.room for new ones.
 
Got one a number of months back. I had owned a couple Beretta Storm NR carbines for years; tried all sorts of other 9mm PCC's over the years, but they were all sold shortly after I got them, while the CX4 stayed on. I loved the stone-axe reliability, didn't really care for the looks, hated the trigger.

Now, finally, the Storm is gone; the Ruger is the new apple of my eye. Just took a backyard coyote with it a couple days ago; terrific fun gun. Far superior trigger, accuracy about the same as the Storm; appearance is...well, I think all these things are pretty ugly. :) It doesn't have thousands of rounds under its belt but so far so good. As an around-the-house pest gun it has no equal, completely replaces the .22magnum I used to use for that work.
 
Well...every part on every gun starts failing at some point. Is the PC extractor becoming known for causing problems?

The gun has barely been out long enough for stuff like this to arise. How does anyone already have thoroughly tested upgrades? I know outfits like McCarbo have "upgrades" for everything, but I wonder how often they are actual upgrades as opposed to changes for the sake of change?

I like guns that work correctly, for a ton of rounds, right out of the box. Hoping this will be one of those, but I won't know for years...I'm at something like 600 rounds now and like what I see.
 
The Ruger PC has been out for over 2 years nows.

If it ain't broke don't fix it, but the time will come. Factory extractor is stamped metal.
 
For a device like a gun, which has a lifetime measured in decades...2 years is nothing. Especially true when the majority of owners seem to spend more time bolting aftermarket crap onto their guns than actually shooting them.

I'm sure the extractor, like anything else made today, is as cheaply manufactured as Ruger felt they could get away with and has a finite life. I'm just curious if it has been widely reported as a problem. I don't really care it if looks flimsy, but would like to know if it is proving to actually be flimsy.
 
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