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Why didn't you just send it back to CZ for repairs and/or tuning ?

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Don't give up on the P95, it's a great Ruger pistol. If I read your original post correctly you've put 550 rounds through the pistol with no cleaning. That certainly should be enough break in time so hopefully when you get it cleaned & lubed properly it should run correctly. You didn't mention if you or your friend have semiauto experience? If not some tips from an experienced shooter will really help out and move your ability along much quicker than trying to figure it out alone.

About the clip/magazine deal.. yeah there's a difference and usually new shooters don't realize it. Some people are just rude, like anywhere online.



Kinda like nails & screws or brushes & rollers, same function but different form. It's better to call it the correct name.


Get your Ruger sorted out and stick around, lots of good folks and a few ornery cusses here.

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It's "grammar" and not "grammer" Seriously, how hard is it to spell words correctly and use capitalization and punctuation? Also, That's the first time a person who only owns Ruger centerfire handguns has been called a gun snob! New guns need to be taken apart, cleaned, and lubed.

Seriously, there are a some members with such poor spelling that it trounces that posters...and I haven't seen you go after them.

Really though, we're all into guns and happen to be on the same forum because we like Rugers. Let's just let it go and appreciate the members here for whatever they are and not sweat the BS.

Steve,
jumping all over someone new to auto pistols because of a mispelled word or misused frase is a great way to welcoime a new member to the forum ,that really shows how much class you have and instills confedence in the new member about asking a question .Well done proper grammer IS NOT a requirment of the forum and we don't need spelling police here as 89 said let it go and help him .If you can't do that ,then don't do anything .Please be cool ,it's all good .
Lou

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Please don't mind the grammar snobs and the gun snobs who lecture about the difference between a "clip" and a "magazine". We get your drift and most folks have better things do do than pontificate on sematics and spelling.

As others have stated here are some things you can try to get your P95 running:

1. Clean it with Remoil or some other lightweight spray on oil. This will get the packing grease and gunk out of it. I would generally agree with you that a new gun shouldnt need cleaning to run, but sometimes they do show up with more grease than necessary.

2. Change ammo. Try something hotter like Corbon +p (that means "High Pressure" in case you didn't know). The extra horsepower may help overcome any friction in a new gun. You dont want to try to shoot a lot of this stuff because its expensive, but it could help you diagnose if your problem is ammo related. If you dont want to spend the $$ for +p just switching brands may help. It could be that you got a bad batch of ammo. Its rare, but it does happen, especially if some bright spark at the warehouse drops a pallet of cast-iron frypans on top of a pallet of bullets and squashes your box of ammo.

3. Swap magazines. Sometimes the magazine is the problem. Also you should take a Sharpie marker and number your magazines so you can keep them straight. Nothing is worse than figuring out that one of your mags is giving you trouble and then losing track of which one it was.

4. Get an experienced shooter to try the gun. I know you said you didnt think you were limp-wristing it, but it never hurts to have an expert help you rule that out.

If none of that works its time to either take it to a gunsmith or give up and sell it to your not-so-smart brother-in-law.

Also, where did you get this gun? If you bought it at a gunstore I would take it right back to them and see what they say.

Good Luck.

SHOTGUNandaPITBULL
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Lou

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Im nott gonner poste anymorr if'n yal gonner makey pun ov me spellin.

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I cleaned my pistol and finally got it back out today and ran around 100 rounds through it. I used winchester 115 grain fmj and tried the remington 115 grain fmj again just to rule it out as a problem. The pistol ran like a dream with both ammo!
Thank you very much to every one for the useful info and for excusing my ignorance to semi auto pistols. I will surely use this forum again for future questionsabout my new firearm.
To the people who have a problem with my gun lingo I will try my best to get up on that more.
To the people who have a problem with my grammer, I think its sad that you are such a freaking snob that you have nothing better to do than correct my spelling on a gun forum. The beauty of the internet is that people can get on here and treat people how they wouldnt treat them in person and i can get on here and spell any damn way i want if you got a problem with it keep it to yourself. its not like i mest a word up so bad you didnt know what i was talking about you just felt like being douche.

Glad you got your gun functioning again.

There are douches on every Internet forum. Gives each forum its own unique flavor.

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Glad you got it worked out.

SHOTGUN and a PITBULL and a WORKING P95 !!!!

Glad it worked out for you.

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I'm glad you got running. I wasn't really making fun of you personally. I was just being a clown. I surely don't have the best grammar either.

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Ruger Mark 111 Target Blued

I also recently bought a new Ruger P95 last week. 2 days ago I took it out for a test fire. Jammed about every third round. The round would jam diagonal and get stuck on the feed ramp. Jam, jam, jam. How am I supposed to sight it in? I was pissed.

Didn't think to clean and lube the gun because about 13-14 years ago I had bought a P95dc and the gun came cleaned and lubed and you could shoot it right out of the box. Never had ANY jams in all those years years from that gun, it was awesome. Go Ruger.

So imagine my dismay when this new one jammed like crazy. I noticed 2 things that could be potential problems. 1. There was no lubrication on the slide surfaces. 2. the feed ramp had 2 sections that were not smooth or polished.

I cleaned the gun, lubricated it, gently dremeled and polished the feed ramp and worked the slide like crazy until I had the desired viscosity. Wiped it clean.

Took it out today and shot forever...NOT ONE JAM! Feels like I got my old P95 back.

I think the friction from the non-lubricated parts was causing an imbalanced "push'" on the cartridge by the slide causing slight misalignment of round into the barrel. Couple that with a feed ramp that could cause the round to hang up due to the unsmoothed channel, and there you have it....jammo.

P95 - still on my favorite guns list.

Congrats on the Pistol and getting her sorted out. Life is a learning curve!

I think you'll love it.

Just don't freak when the blue finish starts to rub off.

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