KDA
nice set of weapons you got there. you said your friend had a p95, and that he has problems if he loads more than 12 rounds into the mags. what is his problems? are they factory mags?
~john
Yes, factory magazines. I will say that when we were at the range that day, it was the first day for shooting his new pistol. Everything was as new and stiff as it was ever going to be.
I had pretty much put him onto the P95DC when I spotted it at the gun shop since I had Rugers, loved them and I knew he was shopping "price" to the point where my effort to put him into a Glock G-19 was doomed to failure. Price was $309 I think. New, all original, two 15 round clips with Ruger stamp on the bottom etc.
I routinely shoot PMC and S&B 9 mm. Both work exceedingly well in my Rugers and Glocks. So as he was filling out the paper work for his purchase, I grabbed a box of PMC off the shelf for him.
So FYI, two things were going on that day. First he had trouble with the PMC ammo, kept getting stove pipes (FTEs). I immediately thought it might be a stiff new recoil spring so traded him out with some WWB 9 mm I had brought along to shoot up in my G-19. The WWB worked perfectly in his new P95DC and the PMC worked perfectly in my G-19 (but then again, I think I should shoot fried eggs in the G-19 if I could get them in the chamber somehow).
So having solved the FTE problems with a switch of ammo, he began to experience Failure To Feed issues with every clip he loaded and tried to use. This problem reminded me of my experience with that old 3rd party 15 round clip I had tried. But I kept thinking that since these were Ruger clips, they should not be having any problems! Then I thought "
stiff and new" again and guessed that the clip springs might be pretty stiff, so I suggested he start loading 12 rounds only to see if that helped.
12 rounds worked perfectly, the six year old WWB rounds were hot enough to function perfectly and the session went well after that.
I fully expect (and have told him so) that both issues will work themselves out after he has put a few hundred rounds through the barrel and, perhaps, left the clips fully loaded with 15 rounds for some time.
I do remember that neither my P93DC nor my P95DC ever had problems shooting any ammunition at all and never gave me issues with the factory 10 round clips that came with them at the time. But, like me, they are old. Perhaps the new Rugers are built to tighter specs and will require a bit of a break in, like most modern pistols (except my Glock G-19s which were perfect out of the box as were my earlier Rugers you see pictured above).
Anyway, I saw nothing at the range that day with his P95DC that will deter me from purchasing another Ruger P series pistol if I should run across one at a fair price.
Solid weapons. Well made and fun to shoot. Reliable enough I'd trust my life to them without hesitation. But the P series is just not light enough to be a good carry weapon. So I also have my G-19s.