After searching high and low, mostly low, for a small compact 9mm for CC and moving through a couple of misdirects I bought a Ruger LC9s Pro and found the weight attractive for CC carry. About 250 rounds later I continued to be impressed with the trigger weight and decent accuracy from this pistol. I then boldly decided to make this shooter into a power house and started searching for some +P loads to boost performance, especially for use in the woods.
I was running some HST +P 147g loads and some Buffalo Bore 147+P Outdoorsman loads through it out in the desert to see what the accuracy and handling would be with those loads. After about 10 rounds of a mixture of those loads, the RSA broke and the slide jammed. A quick call to Ruger resulted in a prepaid label to my printer and off the gun went. It was returned yesterday, thanks to the excellent service of Ruger's CS department, with the note that Ruger replaced the RSA and a note not to feed this pistol a steady diet of +P loads. I was thinking that 10 rounds, even if shot consecutively would not meet the threshold of a steady diet!!!! My error. I ran through a bunch of 124/125 factory rounds and the pistol is functioning perfectly now and that is the only ammo I will shoot through it in the future.
I am even more impressed with the durability and design of the Glock pistols and willingly have them on my buy list in the future. While they may be "blocky" and heavier they handle this type of ammo all day long even on a "steady diet".
Now, more than ever, it makes me mad that I sold my G26 gen 2, but still have the G27 to carry.
Any other experiences with these small 9mm's failure to handle heavy weight +P ammo?
I was running some HST +P 147g loads and some Buffalo Bore 147+P Outdoorsman loads through it out in the desert to see what the accuracy and handling would be with those loads. After about 10 rounds of a mixture of those loads, the RSA broke and the slide jammed. A quick call to Ruger resulted in a prepaid label to my printer and off the gun went. It was returned yesterday, thanks to the excellent service of Ruger's CS department, with the note that Ruger replaced the RSA and a note not to feed this pistol a steady diet of +P loads. I was thinking that 10 rounds, even if shot consecutively would not meet the threshold of a steady diet!!!! My error. I ran through a bunch of 124/125 factory rounds and the pistol is functioning perfectly now and that is the only ammo I will shoot through it in the future.
I am even more impressed with the durability and design of the Glock pistols and willingly have them on my buy list in the future. While they may be "blocky" and heavier they handle this type of ammo all day long even on a "steady diet".
Now, more than ever, it makes me mad that I sold my G26 gen 2, but still have the G27 to carry.
Any other experiences with these small 9mm's failure to handle heavy weight +P ammo?