Ruger SR9 Malfunctions

358156 hp

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Winchester White Box? It wouldn't happen to be 115 gr ball would it? Most 115 gr bargain ball ammo sold in this country anymore is low quality, underpowered crap. It's being manufactured to hit a price point thats competitive with el cheapo imported ammo, and quality suffers. I've seen evidence that some lots of WWB is being manufactured abroad, even Winchester uses overseas subcontractors to load bulk ammo for them. My advice would be to clean and lube the pistol and try 124 gr or heavier ammo in it to see if the issue persists. Long ago I gave up on 115 gr ball in favor of 124 gr & heavier because I had so many feeding issues. Now I don't have any. Try different ammo, 124 gr ammo is often recommended by gun manufacturers to test malfunctions before guns are shipped back to the factory only to be returned with a nice tight group on a test target with "cannot duplicate the issue" handwritten below.
 
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Hawk

North Central Texas
Yep, I have a lot of 115 Rainier bullets loaded that I use for practice. Full power reloads that I have never had a failure to feed or any kind of jam with. Looking to try to run some of these through the gun to see if they function.
 

358156 hp

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Like I said, most 9mm factory plinking ammo like WWB just plains sucks for reliability and accuracy. Now Winchesters 9mm "NATO" loading is a different animal entirely, as is major brand self-defense grade stuff. Even in 115 gr.
 

KHornet

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More words of wisdom. Porbably the wisest was the
admonition not to by cheap crap ammo.

Paul
 

CZ93X62

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I NEVER trust ANY sidearm for carry without 200+ reliable function cycles after a 50-round new-gun warm-up. A good machine deserves good lubrication, and it gets that prior to any firing. Good, modern pistol designs WORK. They need a shake-down cruise, for certain--but there is ZERO excuse for the nonsense we used to accept from Colt 1911-pattern pistols with cast bullets or hollow-points. Ruger tends to build "Kit Firearms" in need of end-user completion--not all, but enough to keep the practices in the back of your mind.
 

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I just bought an S&W M&P 9mm Compact. I brought it home, then field stripped it and cleaned & re-oiled it. The first 200 rounds of ball went through it without a hitch. Then I repeated the field stripping and cleaning and will run at least 200 more through it, then 100 rounds of my normal carry ammo before another cleaning and being cleared as fit for service.

I really have been lucky with 1911s. Every one I've ever had worked out of the box except for an early Colt Combat Target that left the factory with a really light recoil spring which would tie up the gun. I changed that, and the gun worked 100% until I stupidly sold it a few years later.
 

Ian

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Any device for saving lives must be proofed well, but if it fails from the start repeatedly, I have no patience for it. Allen said it all quite well. Kimber 1911s come with a 500-round break-in requirement and it is sound policy even if initial and frequent cleaning/lubings prevent most if not all malfunctions with any kind of factory ball ammo. While my all-time favorite sidearm, every 1911 must earn its place in my stable by proving itself reliable, just like the one that saved my life once by delivering its full payload on target in a blink without a hitch, just as it was designed to do.
 

Pistolero

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Each gun has to be tested to ensure reliable function, and WHERE IT SHOOTS and my personal minimum with
THE LOAD which will be carried is 50 rds. This is not cheap with the modern wonderbullets, but I have discovered
that Gold Dots are available in 50 rd boxes for LE, and if you look around a bit, are way cheaper than the
$1+ a shot in the ridiculous 20 or 25 rd boxes they try to sell all SD ammo in.

Is there a story there you would tell, Ian?
I was getting thoroughly sick of my S&W 340, it was 100% reliable, but I couldn't find any ammo
that shot anywhere near the sights with anything like a group. Buckshot patterns at 25 yds, 9 to 18"
high or low, depending on which $1/shot ammo I was trying. :oops::angry:

Fortunately, 5.0 Unique under a HP Keith 358429 shot 2" group at 15 yds AT POA the first
time I tried. Cast of pure lead, they open perfectly in wet newsprint, too. But I probably
spent $100 on wonderammo before I discovered this.

All unreliability with 1911s that I have had was magazines and ammo. I learned to buy the
right kind of mags and make the right kind of ammo. erratic, but reliable, ejection was traced
to extractor tension and FP stop fit. But it never caused failures, just brass EVERYWHERE with
a few guns until I understood what to do about it.

Bill
 
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CZ93X62

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No need to to inflict another re-rant of my dispassion for that $1.25-per-shot wunderammo that the tacticool kids and mall ninjas get all drippy over. To paraphrase Bret 4207, we spend way too much time and energy assessing the arrow, and far too little time training and assessing the indigenous tribe member launching it. If you place the bullet well enough--and it has enough diameter, mass, and velocity imparted to it initially--the game-harvesting or the goblin-stopping answers require a lot fewer follow-up questions. Practice your shooting with your carry arms like folks vote in Chicago--early and often. It's cooler in the mornings, and less fatiguing--and frequency = repetition = muscle memory = preservation of perishable skills.