wrongway

Disassembled and cleaned my new sr9c and took it out to the range. Loaded and fired both mags, worked great. Loaded and fired both a second time, again, worked great. Loaded both mags a third time, and it jammed on just about every other round on both mags. So, came home, disassembled and cleaned and started reading.

After going through some other posts, it appears that I should have checked for light strikes, but didn't know to look. I did not notice a trigger reset issue as noted in a few other threads, but will certainly pay attention to it next time out. Is there anything else that I should look for/pay attention to when firing? Or a component or area to check/re-check/re-clean when it is disassembled?

Waveform

First let me say welcome to the forum from SW Florida! As to your issues with your new SR9C are you sure you didn't relax your grip after the first 4 mags and start limp wristing? I've witnessed what you described with someone shooting a Glock 9MM and all it took was a firmer grip to allow the recoil to cycle the rounds cleanly.

Sorry to suggest it may be you but I don't know how much experience you may have with semi-auto pistols. I'm sure others will be along to suggest other ideas. This is a pretty helpful place - glad you found it.

Ridge1976

First of all welcome to the forum. There is alot of great people here. You said "After going through some other posts, it appears that I should have checked for light strikes." You didn't mention that you had any problem with the slide jamming. When you cleaned the pistol the first time, did you clean the striker channel? When Ruger ships their autos they seem to pack alot of grease in there. If the striker channel has alot of grease it can cause the striker to gum up and cause light strikes on your primers. Hope this helps.

mndoggie

I concur.

I would look in the relaxed grip area first. SR series need a firm grip because the recoil spring(s) do their job well.

wrongway

Thanks for the welcome guys!

Had to look up what limp wrist means, but it actually makes sense. I had a mix of low/left and low/right shots, looked on that pie chart which indicated that I was 'tightening fingers' and 'tightening grip', so I made an effort to loosen them. Guess I loosened my whole hand/wrist too much on the last mags? Didn't even consider that the way I was holding the gun could cause the jams, I just jumped straight to it being too gunked up, or some type of internal problem as indicated in the manual.

As far as cleaning goes, I did not clean the striker channel. (another thing I had to look up). I just followed the instructions in the manual for field stripping and cleaning, which didn't go that far. Now I know. Found a video that shows how to get into it, so I'll do that before heading out to the range next time.

Should be fairly easy to tell that I am new to this. About a year and a half ago I was out running errands one day, drove by a gun show and decided to go in and look around. Entered a few raffles, and won a free training class! So I took the class, and now a year and a half later, I finally got around to actually buying a gun. I have to say, I'm really enjoying learning about my new pistol.

jlh820

When you slide the back plate off of the slide, put a rag over it. There's a spring behind it that you don't want to lose. The rag should catch the spring if you don't.

moakes58

Welcome from MO! Watch the videos on Ruger's website for dis-assembly, cleaning & re-assembly, they are very informative.

robruger

just asking why??? if the gun is jamming did it not fire the round in the chamber, and if it did why would there be a light strike. it had to fire to jam. If my gun kept jamming it would go back to ruger for fix or replacement. RDB

mndoggie

No where in his post does it say it didn't fire the round in the chamber.

He said he didn't know that he should be checking for light strike after he checked more posts here on the forum and saw that some had issues with that. Light strikes end up with a unfired round in the chamber that has to be manually unloaded, there should be no jamming involved.

I'm still betting that he had a grip issue that prevented the recoil from correctly ejecting the spent casing and loading another good round.

red feather

Ruger manuel

page 28 # 4 did you push the trigger forward??

SouthSideScubaSteve

That's a great idea, I nearly lose that little $%#ker every other time I've pulled out the strikers!

tcanthonyii

My sr9c hates hates hates Winchester. Jams every few rounds and fte's. Ironically my mark II is the same. Try a bunch if ammo to see what it likes the best. I've sent my gun in twice and they said there was no problems

jlh820

Really?! My SR9c eats whatever I feed it and it's got a pretty good appetite!

Mainly I buy S&B or PMC and the only gun I had problems with was my LC9 and that was after the Galloway mod, which I removed. Not saying Galloway's mod is bad, but it was in my LC9 after I installed it.

kayakerdave

Had same issue with my SR9C, likes Federal, Blazer, but does not feed Winchester WB, starts to double feed.

Geebster1

I have a 2-month old SR9C that has been back to Ruger twice with trigger reset, extractor, and jamming issues. They fixed the trigger reset and replaced the extractor but I am still having jamming issues. I've paid close attention to limp wristing. Got the gun back the other day and went to the range today. Jammed on the second round with Federal and more thereafter, jammed continuously with Remington, and 2 other brands. Then fired 150 rounds of Winchester WB flawlessly. I usually avoid Winchester WB due to all the complaints I read. I Left the range with 3 boxes cuz it worked so well. My confidence level in the SR9C is not very high.