bluealtered
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Ruger making a single stack inexpensive 9mm in the $200-$250 price range was what got me to look at it, and since my safe had a empty spot in it i bought one just to see if the positive reviews were correct or just more of the hype that passes for reviews today.
It certainly is a point-shoot pistol and that is what it is made for. If you need dots to aim a pistol this isn't it, if you understand that a CCW type pistol is for quick self defense at close range, (25yds or less) then it works very well.
I took it to our range which is in the mountains and it was in the mid twenty's with snow and ice and a refreshing 20-30mph wind that made shooting without gloves a very cold thing to do that didn't last long. Since i couldn't get any targets up due to the wind i simply ran the six steel plates in one of the bay's to get an idea of what it would do and to be honest it did very well. I started at 15yds and end up at 25yds with the pistol being used point-shoot as quick as i could and it stayed on the plates which are 8" with some being centered and some less than centered but still on the plate. Those were on me since i was standing on ice with a pretty good cross wind. (The only excuse I have)
I shot 50rds through it without any FTF or FTE's and it got boring so i started shooting the frozen pine cones in that bay and it did good on those as well. The trigger is light and worked good right out of the box, The only miss i had in those 50rds was when i put on gloves and forgot that the trigger would feel lighter, i missed the first plate and would have shot the bad guy in the crotch, ... not my problem.
All in all Ruger built a good inexpensive pistol with a good trigger, i should point out here that it is 6" long and 17.5ozs so that should be considered as to if it will be a good CCW for you. It worked fine for me and may have worked better if my fingers weren't half frozen when shooting it.
Edit: i should point out that it has a manual safety as well as the trigger safety, the manual safety is small and with gloves on i found it hard to work.
It certainly is a point-shoot pistol and that is what it is made for. If you need dots to aim a pistol this isn't it, if you understand that a CCW type pistol is for quick self defense at close range, (25yds or less) then it works very well.
I took it to our range which is in the mountains and it was in the mid twenty's with snow and ice and a refreshing 20-30mph wind that made shooting without gloves a very cold thing to do that didn't last long. Since i couldn't get any targets up due to the wind i simply ran the six steel plates in one of the bay's to get an idea of what it would do and to be honest it did very well. I started at 15yds and end up at 25yds with the pistol being used point-shoot as quick as i could and it stayed on the plates which are 8" with some being centered and some less than centered but still on the plate. Those were on me since i was standing on ice with a pretty good cross wind. (The only excuse I have)
I shot 50rds through it without any FTF or FTE's and it got boring so i started shooting the frozen pine cones in that bay and it did good on those as well. The trigger is light and worked good right out of the box, The only miss i had in those 50rds was when i put on gloves and forgot that the trigger would feel lighter, i missed the first plate and would have shot the bad guy in the crotch, ... not my problem.
All in all Ruger built a good inexpensive pistol with a good trigger, i should point out here that it is 6" long and 17.5ozs so that should be considered as to if it will be a good CCW for you. It worked fine for me and may have worked better if my fingers weren't half frozen when shooting it.
Edit: i should point out that it has a manual safety as well as the trigger safety, the manual safety is small and with gloves on i found it hard to work.
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