Ruger LC9

[Guest TNLC9]

S & B ammo is claimed to be bad for Ruger. Ruger says the S & B primers are soft and the shavings build up in the firing pin channel.

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[Oh Shoot]

S & B ammo is claimed to be bad for Ruger. Ruger says the S & B primers are soft and the shavings build up in the firing pin channel.

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Not calling you out or anything, but some rep there tell you that, or what?

- OS

[Guest TNLC9]

the first manufacture run had the issue and a lot of guns travelled back to AZ for repair. this I learned from my initial research before purchase.

mine, however went back at 2500 rounds for a broken slide stop.

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[Guest Lester Weevils]

Thanks TNLC9

Maybe S&B primers do leave shavings, dunno. Maybe they are "soft primers" dunno much about it (or anything else). The main ones I've heard referenced as soft are Federal primers. Next time I get some spent S&B 9mm brass will fiddle with the primers and see if the metal seems "soft" compared to others. I still have some S&B 9mm brass that needs priming and reloading, but they were cleaned and decapped already, sitting ready for uniforming and priming.

It is easy to believe allegations about the primers being "unusual" because the S&B brass is rather "unusual" compared to a lot of 9mm brass. I'm too ornery to discard them, but the primer pockets tend to be lots tighter than most brass. In addition, it is time-consuming to use little rotary bits to uniform the S&B primer pockets because the brass seems to be "harder" than most brass. Win, Fed, etc USA brass, the uniforming bits cut the brass real quick. Also the case for foreign brass like PMC or Prvi Partizan, which is often real good easy to machine and reload as far as I can tell. But the S&B brass takes a lot longer for the bits to cut. Maybe it isn't really harder. There is a machinists term for some brass, "stringy" meaning it is difficult to machine but not necessarily because it is too hard. Not that I know anything about machining either. Its fun to try to learn something.

[Oh Shoot]

the first manufacture run had the issue and a lot of guns travelled back to AZ for repair. this I learned from my initial research before purchase.

Yeah, I see the firing pin channel prob from search, but see Golden Saber, Corbon, and others mentioned besides S&B. Some claim any +p round was a prob. Lots of anecdotal stuff regarding different loads, tough to give any particular one any great credence unless I saw it stated by Ruger.

Ain't nothing wrong with any of them I'd say, but rather with the LC9 design. Whatever the prob with firing channel letting debris in, Ruger seems to have fixed it with current issue of the gun, must have put some sort of seal toward firing pin area or something.

- OS

Edited August 12, 2012 by OhShoot