I'm way more of revolver guy than a semi-auto guy and most of my revolvers are pretty traditional wood & blue or stainless steel. I do have a few semi-autos but they're mostly 1911s and that's pretty traditional too. I go to my local indoor range and I'm usually the only guy shooting a revolver in a line of black semis. I didn't even own a 9MM and everybody has a 9MM, right? So I wonder...am I missing something? Everywhere I look I see Nanos, Shields, LC9s. Inexpensive plastic wonder nines.
Then Palmetto State Armory has a quick blowout deal on brand new Ruger LC9s, the striker fired version of the LC9, for only $239.99. 240 bucks for a brand new pistol that I hear is a pretty decent little shooter. There's a catch however.
It's ugly.
It's PINK! OK, technically they call it "Raspberry" but it's still plenty pink to me. It's almost like the folks at Ruger sat around thinking up ways to make a gun that's already aesthetically challenged even uglier. "Hey! Let's make it pink!"
But I didn't wanna spend much money to get into the wonder nine game and I happen to have some leftover Cerakote on hand so.....
As soon as I got it home I proceeded to tear it down in preparation for making the pink color go away.
I wasn't about to spring for any new color from Cerakote. The whole idea was to keep this as cheap as possible so I grabbed the leftover Burnt Bronze I had from last year's AR project and used that.
Not gonna win any beauty pagents but it's no longer pink and I don't feel embarassed to display it at the range. The LC9s is small, light and has a very nice trigger and all in all I'm pleased with a new gun that only cost $239.99. Just had to put some lipstick on the pig.
Then Palmetto State Armory has a quick blowout deal on brand new Ruger LC9s, the striker fired version of the LC9, for only $239.99. 240 bucks for a brand new pistol that I hear is a pretty decent little shooter. There's a catch however.
It's ugly.
It's PINK! OK, technically they call it "Raspberry" but it's still plenty pink to me. It's almost like the folks at Ruger sat around thinking up ways to make a gun that's already aesthetically challenged even uglier. "Hey! Let's make it pink!"
But I didn't wanna spend much money to get into the wonder nine game and I happen to have some leftover Cerakote on hand so.....
As soon as I got it home I proceeded to tear it down in preparation for making the pink color go away.
I wasn't about to spring for any new color from Cerakote. The whole idea was to keep this as cheap as possible so I grabbed the leftover Burnt Bronze I had from last year's AR project and used that.
Not gonna win any beauty pagents but it's no longer pink and I don't feel embarassed to display it at the range. The LC9s is small, light and has a very nice trigger and all in all I'm pleased with a new gun that only cost $239.99. Just had to put some lipstick on the pig.
However, it still has a "Dingus" on the trigger. 
