Hello and LC9 Dry Fire Question

[adauria]

Hi folks,

You've got a great forum here. I'm a newish shooter living in NC. I just picked up my first carry-specific gun last week and opted for the Ruger LC9. So far I really like it. I have about 200 rounds through it without any issues.

I see that folks here have discovered (as I have) that you need to shoot this thing differently than other guns (e.g. my Glock 19). Indeed my shooting went from "can't hit the side of a barn with this thing" to reliably hitting center mass at 7 yards.

I would like to further refine my skills here by dry firing the gun. The question is how to you guys do this without driving yourself nuts? I mean, to dry fire it you need to have the magazine in (thanks to that dumb safety). After you rack it, you need to manually push down the slide stop (it doesn't seem to drop in, at least not yet). Then fire it and repeat a manual cycling of the slide, complete with releasing the slide stop the hard way.

Am I missing something? Is it easier than this? On my Glock I just leave the magazine out so after I fire I just pull the slide back it and it goes right back to the forward position. It's so much easier to run dry fire practice.

Thanks in advance for any tips.

-Andrew

 

[Jer75]

Hi and welcome!

The trigger will reset within about an inch, so just don't pull the slide all the way back until the slide stop engages. Instead rack it about an inch and you can dry-fire, rack it again about an inch and dry fire again quickly.

 

[Stimo3]

Yeah you don't have to pull the slide all the way back to cock the gun, like Jer75 said, about an inch or a bit more and it'll make a little click sound, and just let the slide forward again and you're GTG. I dry-fire with one A-Zoom snap cap in doing this regularly, ~2500 dry fires so far and around 1k rounds, ~300 now with the SS guide rod in without any issues and nothing but positive things to say!

 

[adauria]

Ah..... I knew there must be some trick to it! Thanks folks!

-Andrew