Any owners out there than can tell me how to dry fire this gun without having to rack the slide everytime? It is my first pistol and thought you could dry fire, even bought the training ammo for it. Thanks
What seems to be the going rate for one of these? Our local shop brought in a couple & asking price is $599.
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For that kinda money I'd rather spend a few bucks more & have a Glock 17.
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NAA.
I don't enjoy the SR9 at all. Not just because Ruger hurt the firearms community but because it's a combat handgun with a horrible trigger that's meant for high-stress, close quarters (read inaccurate) shooting. You're not going to be knocking down steel plates at the 20m mark with this clunker or getting tight groupings at a distance. In fact I'm surprised to see the positive reviews of people comparing it to the G17. I mean, are you kidding? Do you just have something against Glock? When I saw the two tone version in a local shop I tried to put my bias against Ruger aside, citing that the 10-22 is so awesome that I just had to try the pistol.. I will go as far as saying I researched it, the features and really liked the look of the two tone. Once I had a chance to play with it a little and experiment what I found is for $600 the SR9 is not really a great pistol. It's just kind of lame to be frank. I'd rather by any number of other pistols used or put it towards something better for the same price like the G17, M&P9 or even a nice .22 pistol.
No way, the gun only #### after cycled the slide, please remember you cannot dry fire without the mag in.
Trigun
With the SR9, never dry fire without a magazine. It will eventually damage the striker.
I got to shoot one a couple of weeks back. Groups sweet as any gun I've shot. But the trigger pull feels like pulling on a bunch of rubber bands. If there was some trigger mods that could be done to lighten and make the pull more defined then I'd be all over an SR9.
I am curious how dry-firing with or without a magazine can have any variance on the durability of the striker?
The Ruger SR9 pistols sold through Ellwood Epps do not have a magazine safety installed. These guns can be fired or dry-fired without a magazine in place without modification.
I am curious how dry-firing with or without a magazine can have any variance on the durability of the striker? There is no correlation between a seated magazine and the travel of the striker, therefore there should be no correlation between wear or damage incurred with or without a magazine in place.
All striker-fired guns may be dry-fired with or without a magazine in place (depending upon whether or not a magazine safety is installed) without fear of damaging the firing pin. Of course we do not recommend repeated dry-firing on any firearm -- rifle or handgun. It would be advisable to purchase snap caps or keep a selection of fired brass to double as a dummy round rather than to repeatedly drop the striker on an empty chamber.
Note: if you are using the fired-brass method, it is strongly advised that you paint your brass or otherwise mark it some some way to differentiate "training" rounds from live ammunition and avoid a catastrophic mistake!



























