Why does my ruger p95 jam

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WalkingWolf Regular Member. Click to expand Citizen Founder's Club Member. Yes, try different ammo. Never heard of that brand. Maybe its a budget brand with iffy quality control? First, though, make sure you are not limp-wristing the gun. A semi-auto pistol needs the slide to move a certain distance relative to the lower frame in order to eject. For example, when racking the slide, you can hold the lower frame and move the slide, or you could literally hold the slide and move the lower frame.

It is the motion relative to each other. Meaning the slide and frame are not moving far enough relative to each other to eject a brass case.

Only enough to get it started ejecting and then the case gets caught as the slide moves forward again. Very common for folks new to semi-autos. Last edited: Oct 7, I get so sick of hearing excuses made for gun manufacturers. It's always ammo, or limp-wristing. These are the go-to excuses. I have firearms that just won't jam. I've got almost rounds through my Sig. I cannot get it to jam. Any ammo including the crappiest Russian stuff.

The wife shoots it, my ten YO shoots it. I shoot one handed. I practice with it shooting off-handed. It just won't jam. We should hold gun manufactures to a higher standard. WalkingWolf said:. Nobody placed blame on ammo or limp wrist, they were just suggestions. Last edited: Oct 8, Gil Regular Member. All the possibilities listed are valid. A P89 was my first pistol and I keep a warm place for all the old Rugers. OP, how is it jamming? Failure to feed, Failure to extract, failure to fire or something else?

Lock the slide back and check to see if the ejector is bent or broken, or ejector spring is bad. The P requires you to push the ejector down and out of the way to strip it.

It may have gotten bent. I don't know how many rounds you have through the gun or anything, you were pretty vague with the issue, but if you have put dirty or a lot of ammo through it, the feed ramp can get pretty nasty and keep things from operating properly; my malfunctions were all FTF, attributed to both of the following.

You've probably already done this, but simply cleaning your gun prevents many issues with feeding etc. If it's able to rock at all, you might wanna break out the pliers if the mags are metal of course, I don't know and bend the mag so that the rounds are fed properly. Hope you can solve it quick and easy, good luck.

Also, if and when you figure it out, post what the issue was if you would, having others' solutions available comes in real handy sometimes. I am new to owning firearms so im not sure exactly what the problem is. Everytime i put the magazine in and try to cock the gun the slide gets stuck.