Picked up a P90

[pyth0n]

The first gun I ever purchased was a P95DC 40. Seems like an antique now, lol.

P95DC was not .40, but 9mm. IIRC, the 91, & 944 (94) were .40.

 

[JohnL]

Nice piece. I hope you enjoy it.

 

[dddddmorgan]

Well of course it sat there for weeks until I noticed it and now if just sold the day before I could get back to town to pick it up. Of course...

 

[NorCal Ollie]

P95DC was not .40, but 9mm. IIRC, the 91, & 944 (94) were .40.

Ahhhh. You are correct. The S&W Sigma 40 was my first gun. The P95 was after. So many guns, lol.

 

[pyth0n]

Ahhhh. You are correct. The S&W Sigma 40 was my first gun. The P95 was after. So many guns, lol.

I know what you mean.
I picked up a P91DC back in April.

 

[GypsmJim]

Looks great! Would like to shoot mine more often but .45 is so expensive

My P90 is one of my favorite 45's. I shoot .45 almost as much as .22LR. Why? Because it's cheaper than .22LR.

I have to "buy" .22's. When they announced the deadly word "covid", I put in a big order for primers and powder. A box of 50 cost me about 2 and a half bucks. Of course you gotta cast boolits too.

If you shoot, you need to reload too.

 

[5Wire]

Absolutely dependable pistol. I owned this on for about 10 years. I believe it would have fired M&M Peanuts if they could be in the magazine. Shot everything I loaded. Built like a tank and somewhat loose. Got a good deal on it...

 

[the_leper_colony]

91 is rare? Why so? ...Why are they rare?

A fairly small number were produced, for P-series guns - if my memory is correct, they only made the P91 for about three years, before replacing it with the P944. The serial number range suggests about 25,000 per year, so maybe 75,000 total produced. I think the only P-series gun that was produced in smaller numbers was the P93, with about 25,000 total (again IIRC).

The P91 was the last of the "full size" P-series designs, and is quite similar to the earlier P89 & P90. I found that a P89 top half would fit my P91 frame (with a tiny bit of file work on the bottom of the slide, to clear the ejector), so I can also shoot 9mm, using 9mm mags. And I discovered that a P90 top half will fit if you want to shoot .45 reloads: quite a bit more fitting involved for the barrel to clear the frame, and cartridge length has to be short enough to fit a 40 cal magazine (but there is published data available at that length). In some ways, the P91 is the ultimate "Ruger convertible"!

As always FWIW, IMHO, YMMV, "don't try this at home kids", etc., etc.

 

[91B40]

The wife owns a KP90. It is the most accurate .45 ACP that we own, and we own quite a few. Rumor is that Bar-Sto made some of the barrels, and I believe it. It is a bit clunky, but the slide is easier to rack than the 1911's. This gets more important the older you get.
It has never malfunctioned.
I think the trigger is awful, but she says it's OK.