It's an SR9c. Frustrating, because otherwise I like everything about the pistol. Size, concealability, capacity, fires anything including any +P+ ammo, accuracy, just great. Except.
My sample had an occasional, erratic, failure-to-reset-trigger issue. It would fire, cycle in a new round, but the trigger remained back, unset. Very disorienting failure, doesn't feel like anything else. All the normal "bang" things happen, but trigger is "stuck" back for the next round. First time this happened, it was noticeably worse as the weapon got dirtier at a 300 round tactical handgun class. Couldn't even take the 5-rounds in a second test toward the end, because it wouldn't *******' fire 5 times in a row!
Four trips to Ruger couldn't stop it. Last time I was optimistic, but on the 3rd range trip, about 80 rounds in, it did it again. Look on youtube for "SR9c fail to reset", you'll find a number of videos of this. It's a known issue on the SR9/SR9c. Finally, they're replacing it now. Ruger and I both gave up on it. They think they had issues with the first design iteration of the fire control housing, and apparently they've improved it.
Anyway, I'm liking my Shield, bought one for my wife since we both shoot it decently. Done, done, done with Ruger. Never again. Bad taste in the mouth now, I guess.
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I had my sights changed out today added these(AmeriGlo I Dot) and my old front sight looked off centered to the right,so I asked the smith I took it to and had him look-yep you guessed it off center to the right. He made sure my new one was centered up and had just a couple low left flyers but the vast majority were at least centered.
