Bought one and I am underwhelmed. Heavy for what it is. Easy to load, rack and shoot, accurate and reliable. Do not like grip safety, as I actually had to adjust my grip when trying some draws, so dealbreaker right there. It is same size height and length as a 3.6 compact my dealer had for comparison, not as thick as the compact, but thicker than the shield. Should have been shield width with shield style smaller safety and no grip safety.
Originally Posted by Polecat
Did you have a difficult time engaging the grip safety?
Then it's just a Shield.
"It's surprising how often you start wondering just how featureless a desert some people's inner landscapes must be."
-Maple Syrup Actual
Without field stripping the EZ, I will guess that the engineers increased dwell time. By extending the time that the barrel and slide remain together before unlocking and by allowing this unit of barrel and slide to move farther rearward as one, slide velocity is slowed down. Then variable power recoil springs would permit retracting the slide to be easier at the beginning of this trip.
Does this help? I’m not sure what the different shape barrel lug accomplishes from an engineering/dwell time point of view. @Tom_Jones any ideas?
The 9mm is on top, 380 on the bottom.
Last edited by KG; 12-27-2019 at 06:03 PM.
Bar Sto Precision's the late Irv Stone showed Ruger how to redesign the barrel lug on Ruger's first 9mm offering in order to increase dwell time. Ruger was not satisfied with the pistol's accuracy. Let me jump up and confess that I am repeating an event that I read about. I think that lug shape is a variable for dwell time.
Off the top of my head, l say let's ask MAS's opinion. He followed the development of the first Ruger 9mm. He knew Irv Stone. He is cognizant of design. Hopefully he will appear as does Batman when you need him.
This is a very useful bit of data for me personally. Thank you for posting it.
"If I ever needed to hunt in a tuxedo, then this would be the rifle I'd take." - okie john
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The shield should be offered with the safety from the shield EZ. The nub that passes for a manual safety on the standard Shield is useless.
If you want Batman you need to send up the bat signal. @Mas
A couple of you guys have damn good memories.
When the Ruger P85 came out, I got a couple of the first ones. Reliability was first rate but accuracy was mediocre and the safety/decock lever was too small to be easily operated.
I brought the test gun to one of the great gunsmiths, Nolan Santy in Bow, NH. He created a much more ergonomic safety/decock lever. I then sent the gun to Irv Stone for a Bar-Sto barrel. Irv told me he liked the results so much he bought a P85 of his own and built a barrel for it, too.
I was friends with Bill Ruger, Sr. and lived within an hour of his NH factory and home. I took the gun over there and left it with him for a while. He contacted Irv Stone, and later told me that Irv's advice had greatly improved the accuracy of subsequent pistols. He also put a more ergonomic safety/decock lever on his subsequent TDA models, the P89, P90, etc.
As to the matter of the lug shape's effect on dwell time, I can't answer that. It's not something I recall coming up in discussion with either Bill or Irv. Sorry I couldn't be more help on this.
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