#Ruger compact 9mm manual

It’s a combination of pink, purple, gray, brown, and black colors in a woodsy pattern. The three exclusive EC9s pistols have special finishes that Ruger does not offer on its standard EC9s.Īs you can see from our photos, the model I reviewed has Muddy Girl camo finish on the polymer frame. You can check out all the current exclusives by going to Davidson’s has three exclusive EC9s pistols, including the one I used for this report and shown in the photographs. That’s comparable to other compact striker-fired pistols made by other companies.Īs many regular readers of Shooting Times know, Davidson’s offers many exclusive firearms from several major gunmakers, including Ruger. According to my scale, 20 pounds is needed to pull the slide all the way back. I also used my RCBS trigger pull scale jury-rigged to measure the pull weight required to rack the EC9s’s slide. The slide is steel, and it has six wide grasping grooves on each side at the rear.

#Ruger compact 9mm manual

The pistol’s safety features include a magazine disconnect, a loaded chamber view port, a manual thumb safety, and a trigger safety. The double-action-only, hammer-forged, locked-breech, recoil-operated pistol has dual recoil springs around a full-length guide rod, a robust external extractor, and a loaded-chamber view port on top of the barrel’s chamber. The sides, front, and rear of the grip frame (including the front of the finger-extension magazine baseplate) are checkered, and the grooved, contoured magazine release button protrudes just far enough for positive engagement but not so much to catch when drawing the pistol from a holster or a pocket.Īll corners and edges are beveled and rounded for non-snag draw and reduced holster wear. The pistol features a molded, high-strength glass-filled nylon grip frame and a pinned-in metal locking block insert. The pistol weighs 17.2 ounces and fits in the hip pocket of my jeans just fine. The slide is 0.9 inch thick and so is the grip. In size, the EC9s is 6.0 inches long, 4.9 inches tall (with the finger-extension magazine baseplate), and 1.07 inches thick at the thumb safety. The EC9s is larger and heavier than the company’s LCP pistol, and that gives the EC9s more grasping surface and weight for better controllability when firing stout 9mm ammo. The main difference is the EC9s’s sights are integral to the carbon-steel slide. The EC9s is very similar to Ruger’s earlier single-column LC9, which was originally designed to serve either as a primary citizen-carry tool or as a full-power, full-featured, no-compromise backup for off-duty law enforcement officers. With the affordability issue out of the way, let’s take a close look at the EC9s. I think just about any serious handgunner will admit that $294 is pretty affordable, especially for a gun that’s manufactured by one of the most reliable gunmakers in the United States. I’m highlighting a version of the pistol that is exclusive to Davidson’s (I’ll get to the details of this special pistol in a few minutes), and it retails for $294. Let’s get the affordable part out of the way right off the bat. The company’s wording goes like this: “Everyday Carry, Everyday Affordable.” I tweaked it slightly. I borrowed Ruger’s company slogan for the EC9s for the headline of this report.