Ruger sp9 the good & bad

[abiceman]

The first thing you should do is be a bit more specific on your location. Doesn't have to be exact (like mine).
If you were near me I may be persuaded take you to the range to fire mine.

As for you question - mostly the only people who seem to have a problem with the SR9 are the ones who don't own one. I love mine and will never give it up. Feels good and never a problem. It is a toss up which I like better - my SR9 or my GP100.

Hi Gerry I am from north east Edmonton and I just got home from cabelas on the north end were I bought my new SR9 . thanks for your input it helped me make my mind up .
Tom

 

[wayupnorth]

This forum really needs a "Do not buy from this user" setting on the EE.

if you ever talk to my wife apparently one of my problems is that i never sell any of my guns.
even the ones i dont like.

my rational is that even a gun i don't like will still serve me good when the Russians come over the polar cap!!!

 

[pisces-guy]

The SR9 is a good reliable little pistol for a very reasonable price. The grip is best for small to medium hands, adjustable with backstrap...if you have big hands you might not love the grip. Part of the reliability of the SR9 is due to Ruger designing it with generous clearances...a bit of slop in the action. This lets it shoot reliably even when it gets a bit dirty, similarly to the AK-47 which proved itself a better design to the U.S. M-16 in Vietnam, and also shares the drawback to this concept. The slop in the action which increases reliability also reduces accuracy...the Glock 17, Sig Sauer 226, and CZ SP-101 Shadow...all these pistols will shoot tighter groups than the SR9. So if you're looking to nail the bullseye with a tight group at 25 yards don't buy the SR9, but if you want a reliable pistol for smacking the targets at 7 and 15 yards then no worries! If you ever need to use it to protect your life from an intruder in your home, 15 yards is at the very outside of the distance you'd be shooting...7 yards is more realistic. The SR9 works just fine at these distances.

 

[pisces-guy]

The first thing you should do is be a bit more specific on your location. Doesn't have to be exact (like mine).
If you were near me I may be persuaded take you to the range to fire mine.

As for you question - mostly the only people who seem to have a problem with the SR9 are the ones who don't own one. I love mine and will never give it up. Feels good and never a problem. It is a toss up which I like better - my SR9 or my GP100.

I have the SR9 and the SP-101 .357, the SR9 is fun to shoot at 7 and 15 yards, blasting away...the SP-101 gives me a handgun that can shoot accurately and tightly at 25 yards...like my old GP100 did. Two beauties that I won't get rid of either, ever.

 

[shredder]

Hi Gerry I am from north east Edmonton and I just got home from cabelas on the north end were I bought my new SR9 . thanks for your input it helped me make my mind up .
Tom

Don't worry about monkeying with the trigger (although some guys I know have removed the magazine disconnect-why I don't know), just shoot a few hundred rounds through it and it smooths right up.

How do I know? I own a SR9 (with the rare-in-Canada OD green frame ) and that's exactly what I did with mine. No mods whatsoever, and it shoots better than I can hold. It eats any ammo I've fed it, and I can count the number of malfs I've had with it on one hand, without using the thumb and index finger. The few (three) malfs I've had with it were all in the first 500 rounds, and all due to operator error (I didn't seat the mag in far enough before I dropped the slide-totally my fault).

It's my go-to competition pistol for 3-Gun and plate shooting.

For the $600 I paid new (with extra mags), you just can't go wrong with it.

 

[Hitzy]

Mag disconnect is removed so you can dryfire the gun safely without a mag in it. If you dryfire without removing it, and without a mag, you can break the striker. Nothing to do with lightening trigger like a BHP....

 

[pisces-guy]

I installed the Ultimate trigger connector from Galloway and some other bits, and it made for a pretty decent trigger...I also took out the mag disconnect so I can dry fire around the house...after a couple of hundred rounds the trigger pull did get even smoother... It's not a target pistol, but it's reliable and well worth the money.