Older thread, but my .02...
I've owned a dozenish Ruger firearms. Back when they got into the market with the little LC9, I just had to have one. I shot all of my P-Series and the revolvers and the 3 10-22's I owned very well, and even though the only one I could find was about a Benjamin over what it SHOULD have been selling for, I bought it.
Put maybe 30 rounds through it and it started to fail. Called Ruger, they said to send the top o the weapon in. Few days later I get an email where they admitted a bad batch of extractors had been sent out, and I had gotten one. They sent her back, and other than some janky reloaded ammo someone gave me (some crap that NONE of my guns ran) I don't think I've had it not go boom since, even if it's bone dry. I don't abuse it, it's a small gun and I used to shoot some pretty hot carry ammo, but I've put at least 500 rounds of 115 cheapest I can find on the planet in every variety and probably 120 rounds of that hot stuff, a mag of that stuff and my hand would start aching. Heck, 2-3 mags of Wolf or Tull or Blazer makes my hand ache. I switched to a lighter load in a Hurtenburger Buscadero Ticonda* and have 32 of those though it, soon to be 40 because just this weekend is my 'change out all my carry ammo weekend', which means I get to pop off 35 rounds of the good stuff. I still carry the hot stuff in my Sig and Beretta. Just bought a hundo of those
because I caught them on sale at under a buck a round. Thank God ammo is coming back down to reasonable prices.
I really like the Ticondas. I am stopping by PSA on the way home Friday because they have some in stock. 2 boxes will get me another 5-6 years of CC -and I could stretch my OCI to 2 years instead of 18 month's and still have plenty of TBN - shoot, I got my head all mixed up
- and these are truly likely to go down in flames if they ever pass a law restricting 'nasty bad guy hamburger meat' rounds. They absolutely F up pork butts and bottles of high quality H2O. Before ammo went to a million dollars a round and was sold out everywhere I changed it out yearly. Christmas!
Gun parts fail. Almost all of them can be repaired. Shoot the snot out of it and if you just can't trust it because you just can't trust it (I totally get that) then sell it. A gun collecting dust is a shame, and someone out there would love to have it
*credit to Paul Harrell