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Questions about a Ruger 9mm93DC
- Thread starter KADM
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Ruger's one of my favorite companies.
You can go to their web site and get lots of information about their guns, even ones that are out of production including owner's manuals.
http://www.ruger.com/service/productHistory.html#
This might be the one you're looking for:
http://www.ruger.com/service/productHistory/PI-P93D.html
You can go to their web site and get lots of information about their guns, even ones that are out of production including owner's manuals.
http://www.ruger.com/service/productHistory.html#
This might be the one you're looking for:
http://www.ruger.com/service/productHistory/PI-P93D.html
Heavy Metal 1
New member
After you drop the decock with a live round in the chamber it takes a double-action pull to fire that round and all of the following rounds are fired single action. I use mine for EDC and I like the revolver-like aspect because if I need to fire it I don't have to fiddle with a safety, just a long trigger pull.
Its a P93DC, DC stands for De Cocker. The safety model of the P93 would simply be stamped P93. I prefer the DC models of the P series. A safety seems redundant on a hammer fired DA/SA pistol. A Decock lever is all you need.
Decocking the P series pistols may seem frightening at first, when the hammer drops with authority, but there are actually 3 internal safeties at work. The hammer is blocked from hitting the firing pin, by a "blocker". You can see this working, by looking at where the hammer would hit the firing pin when firing. Operating the DC lever pivots the "block" into place. Second, the firing pin is cammed out of position, away from the hammer. Third, a trigger block safety is also in place, blocking the firing pin from moving forward, anytime the trigger isnt pulled fully to the rear. As with any mechanical device, things can, and occasionally do fail, and safe as the P series pistols are, that doesn't excuse an operator from practicing safe firearm procedures.
Decocking the P series pistols may seem frightening at first, when the hammer drops with authority, but there are actually 3 internal safeties at work. The hammer is blocked from hitting the firing pin, by a "blocker". You can see this working, by looking at where the hammer would hit the firing pin when firing. Operating the DC lever pivots the "block" into place. Second, the firing pin is cammed out of position, away from the hammer. Third, a trigger block safety is also in place, blocking the firing pin from moving forward, anytime the trigger isnt pulled fully to the rear. As with any mechanical device, things can, and occasionally do fail, and safe as the P series pistols are, that doesn't excuse an operator from practicing safe firearm procedures.
Walt Sherrill
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weblance said:A safety seems redundant on a hammer fired DA/SA pistol. A Decock lever is all you need.
Redundant if you never start from cocked-and-locked, which you can do on SOME DA/SA guns. A decocker is handier for some folks, but the DA/SA transition bothers others...
There are guns that offer both safety and decocker (using the same lever!), but I find them more confusing than helpful.
Walt Sherrill said:Redundant if you never start from cocked-and-locked, which you can do on SOME DA/SA guns. A decocker is handier for some folks, but the DA/SA transition bothers others...
Agreed. I was speaking to the P series, which cant be cocked & locked. Thats something I wish Bill would have designed into the P series. I have a FNX-45 and its is DA/SA and also can be C&L. I think thats the perfect setup, as it covers all operators.
marine6680
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The decocker tends to be considered the "safety", but not in the traditional sense in that it locks up the action in some way.
The decocker lowers the hammer and puts the pistol into a mode that is considered safe to carry.
Like old DA revolvers, that have no safety... its a long heavier trigger pull for the first shot and a lowered hammer that allow for safe carry and use.
The decocker lowers the hammer and puts the pistol into a mode that is considered safe to carry.
Like old DA revolvers, that have no safety... its a long heavier trigger pull for the first shot and a lowered hammer that allow for safe carry and use.