American Handgunner Jul/Aug 1981 - Jeffersonian

only 5000 rounds through either P9S. This
is not enough to determine the strength of
the gun. Close examination reveals no sign
of wear, but the screw holding the double
action lock work has to be checked occasionally.
I feel the lock up system and light
weight slide along with the advanced engineering
eliminates the broken slide and
frames I have experienced with other
semi-auto types.
All is not perfect with the P9S, however.
There are four points on the P9S·that we
had to work on. All of these problems are
correctable without expensive gunsmith
help. These four points are: the bottom
magazine release, the "backward" safety, a
trigger stop, and conversion to single action
without pre-travel of the trigger.
The bottom magazine release cannot
presently be changed but it need not be a
serious problem. On a duty firearm it
makes no real difference provided the
shooter is familiar with the procedure. The
need for a one-second magazine change in
actual use has not been proven to me. It is
not needed in most practical pistol
matches either. Where it is needed, it can
be learned.
MAGAZINE CHANGING
Nick Pruitt is a championship class
shooter that works with me for Westec.
Nick can do a magazine change on the P9S
faster than I can on the Colt. The procedure
he uses is to slide the left hand
under the gun butt raking the magazine
release with one of his middle fingers and
stripping the magazine out with the index
finger of his left hand. On this motion, his
hand travels directly to his loaded magazine
on the left front of his belt. His next
motion is to grab a loaded magazine and
slam it home. While not as fast as Nick, I
can change magazines more consistently
on the P9S than I can on my Colt.
I have done poorly at times on man vs.
man competition due to magazine change
problems. Each time it was due to a magazine
that failed to drop out of the gun.
Occasionally this was due to a dirty magazine
well. Most ofthe time it was due to my
short thumb not depressing magazine release
properly. Others with small hands
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Butt release on BDA is same on P9S.
Practice will make this r!!'ease fast.
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