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Rohrbaugh Products and Accessories => Rohrbaugh R9 (all variations) => Topic started by: JeffD on October 20, 2005, 10:07:35 AM
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Hi all,
I just signed up today on the forum. I have been lurking this forum for months. I must say what a great forum you all keep up here.
I ordered a R9s back in April I was told it would be ready in August. I have still not recieved it yet. I had my dealer call the company A couple days ago. They told him that there was a 3 week wait on magazines to come in and another 3 to 4 week wait before it would be shipped. I have never waited so long on a firearm in my life.
I ordered a custom holster from a guy in florida right after I ordered the gun. I plan on useing the gun as a backup. So I ordered a left handed holster that also carries a 1911 magazine in it.
They say that good things come to those who wait. If this is true then this will be the best pistol I have ever bought!
I sure do hope it is worth the wait.
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Hi JeffD,
Welcome to the forum. Hope you will visit here many times.
The wait is hard to take, but it will be worth the trouble.
Bill
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Jeff,
Not to minimize your frustration because of the promised
delivery date but I remember that 9 months was standard
wait time in earlier days.
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Welcome! I'm sure there are a lot of lurkers who hear about the long delivery wait and wonder if the wait is worth it, especially with the messages from folks who have feeding or other issues. My experience puts the R9 in the same class of fine engineering and design as my Gold Cup .45 and my Seecamps. All tools have limitations, but these have have unexceeded beauty, reliability, fit and function for their purpose. I'm hoping the R Brothers next effort is a six+ round .45 platform: I'll order mine the moment they start taking orders!
For what it's worth, I had similar feeding issues when I started; if I racked the slide manually, the next round would usually nose into the feed ramp and jam, and I had one or two similar jams when shooting the first 50 or so rounds. After that the jamming problem disappeared and rounds feed perfectly but I still take the precaution of smacking the back (primer side) of the magazine against my palm after loading so that the angle of the top rounds are aligned as well as they can be.
BTW... I waited a year for mine (custom SN#) and it was worth it!
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JeffD, I know the wait is hard, however, you will love the gun.
Tom
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Welcome! Stay the course and you won't be sorry. :o 8) :D
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Jeff
First a big welcome! I remember waiting two years for a Seecamp. Hope your wait will go quickly. Just received my R9 about a week ago and it is worth waiting for.
Dave
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JeffD,
Welcome...
Waiting is actually part of the "trial" of ownership!! ;)
You have passed.. :)
We all want the pup SOONER.. ;D
Have fun when you do-I know you will.. :)
Brenden
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Jeff, let me add my welcome too:)
I was probably lucky - my first (very early one) was really only a few weeks - guy in AK had two on order, one of which I snapped up. I then had a surprise when march 2004 Eric turned up at a shoot with mine and Jody Hudson's. Tried it out there and then. Some few eeks later, it went all way to Anchorage and thence to me!!
My second one ordered soon after that was approx 5 months IIRC but of course the wait was as nothing, having already got one!
Waiting is indeed part of the game - and hard to circumvent unless a good used deal comes up - or you find a dealer who just happens to have had delivery of some on order.
Hope you won't wait too much longer.
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Welcome!
Believe me the wait will be worth it. Once you get hold of yours it will become immediately your most valued possesion, further more upon receipt of your R9 you become a full fledged member of one of the best "forums" on the net. The fellows out here are a treasure trove of help, info and inspiration. Welcome once again to "our club"
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JeffD,
I'm sorry you had to meet all the mean members on your first post.
The nice friendly people will come along later.
It just takes time.
Bill
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Bill
How is the weather at the lake.
Any snow flurries yet?
Dave
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Dave,
There is not much going on. It's cold, but no snow yet.
We had fun waiting for the moon to come up last night.
Since there was a faint glow on some clouds, we knew precisely where to look.
It started with a brillant pin point of light, a rather remarkable sight.
I am an old astronomer, by hobby, and I think nobody has ever provided a satisfactory explanation about why the moon is so giant near the horizon.
I'm going to check out the rise of Venus and Jupiter, too.
Bill
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Bill
If Astromony is your hobby you would be fasinated by vistiing our high school. It has the most advanced plantitarium in the country for a high school, only matched by a few colleges. One thing I do miss is the stars. I use to live in a field where you were surrounded by stars. Now in the woods surrounded by very tall trees there is a hole to look at the sky through when the leaves are on the trees. It does help having skylights. Now seeing a full moon through the trees around halloween does have a special "spooky" look.
Dave
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Thanks for the good replies all. I needed to vent and I just knew you would all understand.
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Jeff
Just join in on the conversations and it will make the time pass faster. Although now days I want time to slow down.
Take care.
Dave
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[size=13] I think nobody has ever provided a satisfactory explanation about why the moon is so giant near the horizon.[/size]
Bill - I had always accepted the explanation that it was basically just an optical illusion - the proximity to a reference point etc. Plus so often, showing thru a veil of clouds too gives that yellow look, exaggerating the effect.
I set camera on tripod a few weeks ago at full moon and used max zoom of 7:1 - then cropped out the moon image - was quite pleased considering no major ultra long lens.
(http://www.acbsystems.com/boards/thr/img_assd3/moon-1098.jpg)
Jeff - apologies for another thread hijack ;D
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nice Chris
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Bill - I had always accepted the explanation that it was basically just an optical illusion - the proximity to a reference point etc.
Exactly right.
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Jeff Thread made me check my paperwork it seems its been 5 1/2 years to get mine. It was a picture of what the gun was going to look like. (When they built one.) I always felt it was more important to get guns out to you guys so mine took a back seat. I can tell you now that the factory is humming and your wait shouldn't be to long. I can also tell you that when you have an R9 in your hands you will forget all about the wait.
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Chris, That's a fine moon picture. I'm amazed at the technology we have today.
I graduated from college just when Texas Instruments came out with an electronic calculator with little red numbers. Of course, someone else had an electronic digital watch.
It was a sensation.
Bill
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You can now buy a watch that will figure hold over to a target out to 1000 yards.
I think I'm going to start selling them.
Tom
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[size=13] Texas Instruments came out with an electronic calculator with little red numbers.[/size]
Bill - me too!! In fact I still have it somewhere. IIRC I bought that for the equivalent of near $50 - way back in mid 70's - and it was the first real scientific, with three memories, stat's std deviation, linear regression - oh my - every darned thing :)
The lil' red LED digits ate batteries real quick - tho it was rechargeable - and in eng' mode I think would allow ^100 - certainly way more dec' places than the I think the ten or twelve display digits could handle.
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Chris,
For certain dreary calculations, I used logarithm tables which were in the back of my American Practical Navigator, by Nathanall Bowditch. It saved time on certain multiplies and divides.
Of course, today's calculators make all that stuff obsolete.
I sat down one day and calculated, should say, estimated the number of atoms in the known universe. I assumed there were 100 million atoms lined up in one centimeter.
I forget the answer, but the calculator can have an exponent of 2 digts, I think, so 10 raised to the power of 99 should be more than the number of atoms.
I confirmed my own answer by using a search argument on Google. It seems some other crazy guy had already worried about it. :D
If I'm off a little, please overlook the error. We are having a little bronchitis today. Nothing at all serious.
Bill
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Oh, I forgot to tell that I built a Heathkit calculator.
Can you imagine building a calculator today?
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Now you guys have me going!
As I write this, my TI SR-56 is sitting right next to my HP Pavilion computer. I had a Texas Instruments SR-50 with serial number under #9,500, but traded it in for the SR-56 because the -56 is programmable. The first program I wrote for it was a future value calculation of my projected Social Security benefit at age 62 vs. what I'd have if I could invest the SS witholding myself. Then I had the program add in the employer contribution. Conclusion in 1972: I was going to get screwed by having to invest that dough in Social Security. I started collecting SS this year. Know what? My calculations were right.
BTW: The batteries for the SR-56 are dead, and the last time I checked replacements would cost more than a modern calculator of equivalent function! But that's okay, the SR-56 sits in a drawer right next to my Pickett 12" slide rule which saw me thru engineering school. ;)
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Bill:
I'm impressed!
I'm a history major with an English minor who went into the law. My greatest achievements in the electronic field were to build a two-tube radio in high school shop class and to jury rig a bootleg connection into a local telephone system so I could keep in touch with my girlfriend from my tent at Boy Scout summer camp. :P
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I sold my H8 last week.
-- Chuck
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Steve,
You are a humdinger. I used to get a kick out of programming those calculators, too. They were a lot of fun.
I finally had to abandon the Algebraic Operating System found in the Texas Instrument brand, and begin using Reverse Polish Notation (RPN). I use that exclusively now.
You probably recall that it is never necessary to hit the Equals key. You enter the first number, then press <enter>, the next number, operation, number, operation, etc.
Of course, the HP brand did have superior physical qualities over my TI calculator, so that encouraged me to switch.
Bill
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Richard,
You are also a humdinger. Making a radio is indeed fun for a youngster. To have it work afterward, is akin to magic!
I think many of us tapped into the old phone systems in the past.
Making my first radio led me to get an amateur radio license. I have talked with 303 different countries, and received confirmation back in the form of a QSL card, which is post card size.
Bill
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Hehe - sorry about the thread hijack!
Bill - oh my - log tables - of course all I had at school. I meant to also refer to that other ''miracle'' the analog slide rule - I was thrilled when I was given a small 6" one by a professor and used it for ages. I recall too its smell - that ''ping-pong'' ball celluloid aroma! Ahhhh the nostalgis.
I built a Heathkit audio amp and did build a small programable calc' - in UK and that had the ''Sinclair'' name - was a lotta fun.
RPN - heck - had all but forgotten about that. My TI calc - I guess without checking maybe the TI-50 - was also somewhat rendered obsolete by cost of batt replacement tho I did save one new pack purchase by making a new pack with 3 AA size NiCads and getting it in tho the silly spring contacts often played up and needed cleaned.
Back to regular programing ;D
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Chuck,
Please forgive us. Occasionally, we get carried away and drift from the main topic.
Bill
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Chris,
I know the feeling about the slide rule.
I bought a Post Versa Log, made out of bamboo. It was quite the thing.
I took a slide rule course in college, wanting to be prepared for the future. Then, they immediately came out with calculators.
Bill