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Well I pulled the trigger and decided to get a 40 .instead of a 9. I'm extremely excited, I know it will be a great gun. Plus the guy threw in 2 boxes of ammo and a box of HP's
 
There are several videos, here and youtube that show you how to remove the striker assembly. Remove the striker and clean it and the striker channel very thoroghly. I usually use CLP but this last ime I used the REM Oil. I find them both very good. I have about 2000 rounds through mine now and it still shoots as good as day one.

Matt
 
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Count me into the happy SR40c owner's club! Mine has been trouble free and eat's any ammo that fits it. It's also a surprisingly accurate gun with reasonable recoil. I reload so the increased price of ammo over the 9mm isn't a big deal but the power of a .40S&W compared to a 9mm is.
 
I recommend you take cleaning gear with you the range and clean the striker tunnel every 100 rds or so. You may find some brass shavings getting in there during the first few hundred rds. Nothing to be concerned about. The extractor may shave some brass at first. Once the extractor gets run in, that'll stop, if it even happens at all.

Use good ammo during break-in, so if there's malfunctions, you aren't in doubt about ammo problems or gun problems.

Don't be surprised if you can't release the slide by thumbing the slide stop. You can read up on the various opinions about that in many threads here.

If you decide to get additional full size magazines, consider getting enough grip adaptors so each mag has one. You can wedge a strip of rubber between the mag to keep the grip adaptors in place.
 
I've not had any trouble with brass shavings in the striker channel. I did find that flooding the striker blocker button with CLP a couple times and then wiping everything down helped smooth up the trigger in my 9c. A lot of grease in the striker channel the first time.
 
I also just bought a SR40c also so I thought I'd sign up for the forum. I'm cleaning it up now before first time to the range. I have the striker out and was wondering if I should oil the channel or just leave it dry?
Thanks.
 
ILRugerfan said:
I also just bought a SR40c also so I thought I'd sign up for the forum. I'm cleaning it up now before first time to the range. I have the striker out and was wondering if I should oil the channel or just leave it dry?
Thanks.
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Hello, well your doing it all right so far with cleaning it first.

As for the striker channel I think cleaning it out is the main thing. As far as lubricant here's what I did and my logic behind it. I didn't take the striker assembly out for cleaning/lube until about 400 rounds.

What I found was a mess of thick sticky, gunk, what kind of gunk I have no idea but it was filthy and uneven, some of it had a vasaline like feel to it, anyway. The gun still ran flawlessly in that condition.

So I wiped it down until the striker assembly was completely dry, then cleaned it with clp sprayed onto a cleaning wipe. Then coated it with hoppes9 lubricant, I left it pretty wet. Left it to sit for 2 hours.

On the striker channel itself same procedure, wipe down dry with cue tips to remove gunk, sprayed CLP in there, then another dry cue tip to blot up any excess. I cleaned off all the CLP I could and left it very dry for the most part. Then put it all back together again.

Even with my generous coating of Hoppe's on the striker assembly itself, it was still cleaner and dryer then it was from the factory. What I'm saying is don't worry about putting too much on. Because its not possible to coat it with as much slime that was on it when it shipped. Seriously...its just impossible to do with Hoppe's. The metal simply won't hold that much.
:)

My next 150 rounds where trouble free, as before but the guns overall smoothness of action did feel better to me.
 
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