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We went out to the Utah west desert yesterday to shoot my new LC9. First time my wife shot it. She really liked it. Unfortunately our regular shooting spot had some wicked ricocets buzzing by us from who knows where so we had to go shoot in a dustier spot.
As I was loading the magazine I dropped the LC9 in the thick desert dust twice! I wiped it off and shot it. It started jamming. I oiled it up and wiped it off and worked the action a bit then shot it again. Even though there had to be dust inside the mechanism it worked well. I didnt mean to drop it. My wife said, "Im sure glad I wasnt the one to drop it!"
I see her point.
But the unexpected resisence to such a nasty invasion of dust and fine sand inside the action of my LC9 gives me a whole new respect for this little gun.
No, it didnt like it but with a little oil it kept right on going. Later when I disassembled it for cleaning it was totally contaminated with dirt.

This kind of reliability could save your life.

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Carl from Utah

Old Charter Arms. 357 mag, Charter 2000 44 Spl, On Duty 38 spl, and my LC9!

Cool... there are worse things you could have dropped it in or on.

Yes there are certainly worse things to drop it in.

I worked on dairy farms when I was a teenager. If you dropped a small gun like the LC9 in the oceans of cow-crap typically found in the holding pens where the cows wait to get milked on a dairy farm you would certainly never find it again.
An outhouse would be one of the other places where you just might have to cut your losses and write it off should you drop it down there.

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Carl from Utah

Old Charter Arms. 357 mag, Charter 2000 44 Spl, On Duty 38 spl, and my LC9!

I'm more interested in the ricochets. Were they your ricochets or were you taking fire from other shooters?

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Your Mileage Obviously Varies

Oh no. We hadnt set up yet. We were looking at the spot we usually go to and getting ready to set up our target and suddenly we get several close ricochets. I couldnt see anyone so we really dont know what direction they came from.

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Carl from Utah

Old Charter Arms. 357 mag, Charter 2000 44 Spl, On Duty 38 spl, and my LC9!

My SR9c and LCP were really nasty inside after a week of riding around in my truck for a week of off roading. That fine red dust is just horrible.

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1961 Remington 572 Pump Action .22
1966-73 Western Field EMN 175 Bolt Action 12 ga. (Marlin Model 55G)
1963 Ruger Single Six Convertible .22
1978 Ruger 10/22
2008 Ruger KP944 .40 S&W
2010 Ruger KSR9c 9mm
2011 Ruger LCP .380
2012 Ruger SR1911

...then there was the infamous Ruger P345 torure test, where they cast it in cement, then broke it out and fired it repeatedly.

Good to know the reliability, in a life or death scenario...but would not fire it much unless I had to without thorough cleaning.

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