Ruger P90 .45

[Blackthorn73]

I have tried several times to respond to the above posts, but keep getting knocked offline, sorry about that...

[Blackthorn73]

P90s are great in that they run everything. I had one it was awesome until I shot a 1911. Dumped the P90 as fast as I could.

I went in the opposite direction, started with 1911, went to the P90 and no regrets.

[Blackthorn73]

We're on the same page.

[pythonfan]

I wouldnt part with mine for nostalgic reasons, but I haven't touched it in over a decade. If memory serves it was not in the same ballpark as a 1911 to shoot.

[omega]

[johnnycharro]

I have one that I bought way back when. Never enjoyed racking the slide due to the position of the decocker/safety being in the position where I slingshot the slide. Still have it though.

[Rob454]

I wouldnt part with mine for nostalgic reasons, but I haven't touched it in over a decade. If memory serves it was not in the same ballpark as a 1911 to shoot.

No and it was never meant to be. My P90s are solid. I can run aluminum, steel and brass cased though tI with no issues. In fact in my personal tests I loaded a variety of cased and different loads to see if I could get it to malfunction. It eats anything you feed it. Out of the box it’s accurate.
Yeah you can’t add all the lights and laser stuff as it doesn’t have a accessory rail but it’s not a huge issue for me.

Until it didn't. :0

The P-series family...gone.
The SR family...gone.
The All American family...around for 5 more years?

Ruger doesn't seem to be able to make a service pistol series with any longevity. ( Unlike their revolvers and rimfire pistols. )

My guess is that the Ruger 1911 will be around for a while though.

-- Michael

It stopped selling because everyone went to polymer and striker fired. I personally still like hammer fired pistols.


I think XD at the time was the new kid on the block and everyone was stroking it over the XD 9 series. Also Glock pistols were hot items around the time p90s started coming out. They weren’t as sexy cool. And lots of people buy guns based on looks

Ruger semi autos have a undeserved bad rep and truthfully I don’t know why. Most likely the stubbornness of the owner was a huge detriment imo.
Most people who bad mouth Ruger semi autos never owned them. Or they rented or borrowed one and we’re told it wasn’t a “good gun”. S they kept that opinion. They just regurgitate what they hear or read. What I like about the triggers that most don’t is that I have large hands along with large fingers. When I’m wearing gloves it’s even worse. The large trigger guard and the trigger creep allow me to use my ape like hands and fingers. I shot my p90 so many times I know what it’s gonna do.

On my 1911s the initial thinner stock grip made me feel like the guns weren’t sitting right so I was a horrible shot. I put some wood or hogue style grips with finger grooves that are wider to make the pistol grip thicker and everything improved.

I have one that I bought way back when. Never enjoyed racking the slide due to the position of the decocker/safety being in the position where I slingshot the slide. Still have it though.

You’re supposed to grab the lever to pull the slide. It has serrations on it and makes a great pull point. Also the rear sight sticks out and it’s solid steel and dovetailed in the slide itself and makes a great catch to rack the slide if you’re incapacitated/shot in one arm. When I practice I use the rear sight as a catch to load. And I do ambidextrous loading and shooting. You can also loosen the Allen wrench and tap the sight to move it left/right if needed. Then retighten the Allen bolt.

I bought some ProMag magazines. I heard they were supposed to be sort of crappy but I haven’t had issues. Although. Was expecting feeding issues. The factory mags run like champs.

[ar15barrels]

Because it was chonky, heavy and was hammer fired -
the polymer craze took over with the P95 and then the P97 in .45 and the P345 eventually.

All of those you listed are hammer fired.
All they got rid of with the polymer was some of the weight.
The chonky and the hammer fired remained.

I still have my P89, P90 and a P95.

[DArBad]

First time I read about it, I wanted one badly. Years later after it first came out, Wiley Clapp even wrote a favorable article in Guns and Ammo magazine praising it. Must be year 1999 or 2000 when that article was written.

I went to my local GS and handled one. It was big, clumsy, and screams " cheap ". Are they reliable?? Those who owned one says so.

But in the shelf of my LGS then was also a Sig P220, a Smith 4506, a Colt Double Eagle for comparison and a bunch of Colt 1911. I didn't buy the P90. Not too long after that, Ruger stopped producing it. I guess the answer to the OP is.....it didn't sell well.

[Oceanbob]

[DesertDave100]

I call mine 'the garbage disposal', in that it is 100% reliable with any of the aluminum or steel cased ammo I can feed it, with either Ruger or after-market magazines.

[newbutold]

Other than its totally reliable, if I actually used it in a situation, no telling how long the police would keep it. I really don't want an expensive pistol impounded.

[crufflers]

Yeah, Bill Ruger did not help with the low-cap mags for the double stacks... the P95 had a sizeable plastic block/baseplate on factory mags and the ones I got from JGSALES or wherever were only 15 rounds... if the Mecgar flush 17's were around from day one they would have sold more. I think the .40 version only held 11+1 (P94?) if you got regular mags. The Ruger polymer was thick and chunky itself with zero give, zero flex. Still have not seen another centerfire auto where the steel slide runs on the polymer frame with no steel inserts. I don't even think that Ruger stuff will melt.

[dfletcher]

Other than its totally reliable, if I actually used it in a situation, no telling how long the police would keep it. I really don't want an expensive pistol impounded.

[zinfull]

I like my P89 as it is solid and when shooting you can remain on target. I also got a DC slide and an original PC9.