Ruger SR9

After saying that one 9mm was enough, I bought a Ruger SR9. The pistol has excellent feel, the sights are easy to acquire and the barrel is low enough that you get good recoil and accuracy control. Out of the box, the pistol was quite accurate with lower velocity (~1040 fps) 125gr lrn bullets. However, it wanted to stovepipe every time. It did better from the stovepipe standpoint with 125gr lrn at ~1150 fps. Accuracy was terrible and the barrel seemed to want to lead up quickly. The pistol seems to do quite well with 115 gr FMJ (Montana Gold) loaded with ~5.0 gr Bullseye (~1150 fps).

Out of the box, the trigger was gritty and heavy. I did some polishing on the trigger bar and removed the mag safety. This smoothed out the trigger and made my shooting a lot better. It didn't lighted the trigger much. Instructions for this can be found at Ruger Forum.net