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Rohrbaugh Products and Accessories => Rohrbaugh R9 (all variations) => Topic started by: Hk-Itch on March 25, 2007, 11:30:05 PM
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After I had several double feeds may last time out at the range I ordered and recieved the heavy duty mag springs. Put them in and took my gun to the range today. I shot 60 rounds of Blazer 115 fmj gn. and 20 rds of Gold Dot 115 hp grn. No problems. Pulling back the slide to chamber a round with the new mag springs installed requires some grit, but it has made all the difference in making it 100% reliable. I set up about 15 ft from the target and did some quick double taps with the GD's. I was able to keep 11/12 rds in the torso of a B27E target. The one round went low into the right hip area. I was very pleased with it's handling. I know ::)I said I would only feed it premium food, but I figured if it fed proper on the Blazers, it would feed proper on the GD's. Hiccups cured........
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........And when I cleaned it later that eve. I installed a new recoil spring that I also had ordered. Man what a b@#*h to install! I finally got it in by using half a wooden clothes pin to block the recoil cap and pulled it out when I had it installed in the slide. Just curious but this new recoil spring was a whole lot harder to compress than the actual one that came with the gun.......but I also had shot my R9 before first cleaning too. While this harder spring was shiney and new...
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HK:
Have you seen the link to Steve Bedair's R9 tools? If not, this may be of interest:
http://bedair.org/Rohr/Rohrbaugh.html
RJ also made some special tools for managing the R9 recoil spring, but I think he may have sold them all by now. However, BillinPittsburgh posted a notice of one for sale in the Forum's Classified section last night.
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Thanks Richard,
I sent Bill a PM about the take down tool.
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Thanks Richard,
I sent Bill a PM about the take down tool.
Does he sell them, or did he just give us instructions on how to build our own?
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Harrydog
Steve gives instructions on how to build his tools and I also think he'll sell them to. They were pretty easy to build,just took time getting the materials from the hardware store.
jeff
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After I had several double feeds may last time out at the range I ordered and recieved the heavy duty mag springs. Put them in and took my gun to the range today. I shot 60 rounds of Blazer 115 fmj gn. and 20 rds of Gold Dot 115 hp grn. No problems. Pulling back the slide to chamber a round with the new mag springs installed requires some grit, but it has made all the difference in making it 100% reliable. I set up about 15 ft from the target and did some quick double taps with the GD's. I was able to keep 11/12 rds in the torso of a B27E target. The one round went low into the right hip area. I was very pleased with it's handling. I know ::)I said I would only feed it premium food, but I figured if it fed proper on the Blazers, it would feed proper on the GD's. Hiccups cured........
+1 on this. My R9 would hiccup with pretty much anything except silver tips. I got the new magazine springs and new recoil springs and took it to the range this weekend. I didn't enjoy the recoil that morning so I kept it under 20 rounds including some 115 gr American Eagle FMJ, no hiccups. I have to prepare for the next trip with more choices of ammo, thus reserve final judgement but this new springs could be the missing link in making the R9 a 100% reliable gun.
--Sebis