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The Water Cooler -- General Discussions / Re: Handgun of the Year 2005 / Twenty Years ago this year 2025. Rohrbaugh R9 Pistols
« Last post by MikeInTexas on June 07, 2025, 06:57:37 PM »Pictures from Eric. Click to enlarge.
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The Water Cooler -- General Discussions / Re: Handgun of the Year 2005 / Twenty Years ago this year 2025. Rohrbaugh R9 Pistols
« Last post by backupr9 on June 06, 2025, 10:25:18 AM »I fell in love with the R9 pictured in the “Handgun of The Year” NRA article, but it took me 4 years to actually find one at a gunshow. The R9 is still my EDC. Treat it right, hold it tight, feed it what it likes….carry a lot, shoot it rarely and you have a mutual love affair.
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« Last post by cargaritaville on June 05, 2025, 08:21:43 AM »Sold.
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The Water Cooler -- General Discussions / Re: Handgun of the Year 2005 / Twenty Years ago this year 2025. Rohrbaugh R9 Pistols
« Last post by cargaritaville on June 05, 2025, 08:20:57 AM »Congrats again to the Rohrbaugh's for designing and building the most elegant gun ever made!
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The Water Cooler -- General Discussions / Re: Handgun of the Year 2005 / Twenty Years ago this year 2025. Rohrbaugh R9 Pistols
« Last post by MikeInTexas on June 04, 2025, 10:02:49 AM »So when you guys were at the NRA convention in Houston, 2005, you did not know about the award yet??
It was there we met and I got started on the process of purchasing one for a friend.
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It was there we met and I got started on the process of purchasing one for a friend.
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The Water Cooler -- General Discussions / Re: Handgun of the Year 2005 / Twenty Years ago this year 2025. Rohrbaugh R9 Pistols
« Last post by DDGator on June 03, 2025, 11:06:05 PM »Truly an amazing accomplishment, and a well-deserved award. You both played a part in essentially creating a new class of pocket pistols. You have reason to be proud, for sure.
I'm happy to have played a small part in your story, and gotten to meet you both along the way.
I'm happy to have played a small part in your story, and gotten to meet you both along the way.
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The Water Cooler -- General Discussions / Re: Handgun of the Year 2005 / Twenty Years ago this year 2025. Rohrbaugh R9 Pistols
« Last post by ECR on June 03, 2025, 10:55:23 AM »I used to be able to make the photographs smaller so they would be accepted.
I can no longer figure out how to do that.
I apologize for that.
ecr
I can no longer figure out how to do that.
I apologize for that.
ecr
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The Water Cooler -- General Discussions / Handgun of the Year 2005 / Twenty Years ago this year 2025. Rohrbaugh R9 Pistols
« Last post by ECR on June 03, 2025, 10:26:26 AM »Here it is. . . . . . My, how time has a way of moving along without a care in the world!
It was 20 years ago this year that we were The NRA Shooting Illustrated Magazine's "Handgun of the Year" for 2005!
An NRA Golden Bullseye Award . . . . . . for Best Handgun 2005
It was quite the surprise for sure. Karl and I were dumbfounded by it and very humbled. It was, and has been, an absolute honor of our lives to have achieved such an award as this.
I have attached a couple of photographs of the magazine article here. If you zoom in, you can read their short synopsis of what we did. Whiley Clapp loved the gun. He kept that first R9 we sent him. We asked him for the gun back after he reviewed it, but Whiley being Whiley, he said to us. . . . I'm not sending this back, bill me, I'm keeping this one! Ha haa . . . . . He loved that little fella. He shot it pretty well too!
We love all of the people we met along the way in the industry. It was truly an honor to have been accepted by so many good people who were there as we all did what we do to promote and advance the firearms community and those of us who love to shoot for fun, for hunting, and to protect our loved ones, our families, and our friends. God has blessed us all.
It was an exciting time, just post-9/11, to have introduced such an innovative firearm that changed how people carried a small pistol for protection while being discreet. We can all thank my brother Karl N. Rohrbaugh, the designer of the R9, for that!
Sincere Regards,
Eric C. Rohrbaugh
It was 20 years ago this year that we were The NRA Shooting Illustrated Magazine's "Handgun of the Year" for 2005!
An NRA Golden Bullseye Award . . . . . . for Best Handgun 2005
It was quite the surprise for sure. Karl and I were dumbfounded by it and very humbled. It was, and has been, an absolute honor of our lives to have achieved such an award as this.
I have attached a couple of photographs of the magazine article here. If you zoom in, you can read their short synopsis of what we did. Whiley Clapp loved the gun. He kept that first R9 we sent him. We asked him for the gun back after he reviewed it, but Whiley being Whiley, he said to us. . . . I'm not sending this back, bill me, I'm keeping this one! Ha haa . . . . . He loved that little fella. He shot it pretty well too!
We love all of the people we met along the way in the industry. It was truly an honor to have been accepted by so many good people who were there as we all did what we do to promote and advance the firearms community and those of us who love to shoot for fun, for hunting, and to protect our loved ones, our families, and our friends. God has blessed us all.
It was an exciting time, just post-9/11, to have introduced such an innovative firearm that changed how people carried a small pistol for protection while being discreet. We can all thank my brother Karl N. Rohrbaugh, the designer of the R9, for that!
Sincere Regards,
Eric C. Rohrbaugh
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Forum News and Feedback / Re: Please Check In Here!
« Last post by ECR on June 03, 2025, 09:46:58 AM »It may be time to seriously consider updating this to the newer, safer systems to maintain all of the data, photographs, and history accumulated over the years for the Rohrbaugh R9 Series Pistols. After all, it was the originator of the "Micro Nine" Pocket Pistol category that followed, created by an interesting story that holds reference to The Rohrbaughs receiving their patent in the mail for their small carry pistol in .380 ACP, the very same day that Larry Seecamp's new .380 Pocket Pistol was on the front cover of The American Handgunner Magazine with his new pistol of the same caliber! THAT very incident changed small pistol history forever, and the Rohrbaugh R9 Series 9mm Pistols were developed immediately after receiving the mail that very day. It would take a financial and intelligent effort to do such a transfer to accomplish such a goal. I, unfortunately, am not capable of either. It would need to be a consolidated group effort within our community here to make this happen for the good of all. Any thoughts on the matter would be beneficial, including any of you who stop by and browse through the threads of historic stories and technical data within the forum.
We can do this.
Respectful Regards,
Eric C. Rohrbaugh
We can do this.
Respectful Regards,
Eric C. Rohrbaugh
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Forum News and Feedback / Re: Please Check In Here!
« Last post by cargaritaville on June 02, 2025, 10:35:49 AM »I can only enter by switching from Safari to Chrome.