Posted: 2/2/2009 5:22:15 PM EDT
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I handled one today. When these came out I thought about buying one. Then the recall happened.
This was a post recall gun with the Glock type trigger safety. I thought about buying one once again. It had a horrible trigger pull. Horrible. Terrible. Sigma-like. Felt nice, but between the trigger and the way they half-assed the light rail, I passed. Any owners out there have trigger work done? |
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They did a lot of things right with the SR-9. The slim grip is the best thing about it, and I want to like the gun.
Unfortunately Ruger is notorious for making things like hammers and sears "restricted" parts that they refuse to sell. On the other hand, if the gun ever takes off –– which is iffy at best –– someone will probably eventually make a replacement sear for it. |
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One of the problems with Ruger is they do very little finishing on their internal parts. Their revolvers, both DA and SA have this problem and in order to keep the hammer speed high enough to overcome the rough parts, they put in extra heavy springs. So you've got the heavy spring as well as the rough finished parts that move across one another. Fortunately Rugers are usually easy to disassemble and get to the parts to smooth them. I've got an SP101 that has a trigger, both DA and SA, that's as good as my S&W revolvers with nothing but time, elbow grease and a $12 spring kit. While I've got no experience with Ruger semi auto pistols, I'm willing to bet that the terrible trigger won't be that hard to improve. |
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I have an SR9. I bought it the day after the election - go figure.
I am not all that sophisticated when it comes to triggers, etc. I like my SR9 - a lot. It is a high capacity, great feeling gun and, maybe it's just my copy, but I don't have any problem with the trigger. I've just recently gotten back into the gun thing so I'm not coming from where you guys are, but I really do like the gun. There has been discussion of Ruger developing a .40, 10MM or a .45 version. If they did, I'd probably buy one if the price was ok. By the way, I got burned on my purchase. I paid about $75 more than I should have, but like I said, I'm just getting back into the gun thing and you have to learn. I still think the SR9 is a great gun. Just bought a Sig 220, so maybe I'll become more discriminating. |