( 1 out of 5) What a mess.

by Steven from DeKalb, IL on March 8, 2020

Disclaimer - I'm a Ruger fan. They've built a brand on reliability and ruggedness, and the occasional weird safety issue aside, I have never had a Ruger firearm I wouldn't trust to protect myself and my family. So naturally this caught me 100% off guard.



I received the pistol Saturday morning from my FFL. Mags seemed to wobble quite a lot side to side, but I figured I could learn to deal with it. Left-handed slide release really does not work correctly inconsistent, requires tremendous force and does not always disengage, but I'm right handed and generally use the palm of my support hand to bop the slide release on a gun like this anyway, as it's generally a nice gross-motor-skill action that requires very little force and very little precision to execute.



Took the gun out today to try to break it in. Third or forth shot was a light primer strike, immediately fired by a failure to eject. This would continue for about 350 rounds, with every magazine having at least two light primer strikes and at least one FTE event. Used an assortment of different ammunition's as I anticipated this might initially be an issue, results were consistently bad across, Winchester white box, S&B 115gr FMJ, Fiocchi 115gr FMJ, Federal RTP, and Blazer 147gr. I found this upsetting, but elected to detail strip and deep clean the firearm to remove any residual preservative/packing grease or metal kerf from the assembly process.



The striker channel had an alarming amount of metal shavings in it, which were removed by way of Q-tip. The Nylon striker guide does not inspire a lot of confidence. It looks and feels like something you'd find in an affordable airsoft gun. What really ruined this gun for me is 36 hours after pickup from my FFL, no less was that attempting to reinsert the takedown pin caused it to break, making it impossible to reassemble the firearm.



2 out of 5 stars for performance because on the off chance that it would fire without FTEing or light-striking, it was controllable and accurate, pointed naturally, and had very pleasing ergonomics. Wow, Ruger. What happened, guys?