Anyone have a Ruger P95?????

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My FIL has a Ruger P95 and leaves it my house for the rare occasion he wants to shoot a few magazines every now and then. Today I attempted to clean it since it hasn't been cleaned since he bought it. I got it apart and got it cleaned up. While I was attempting to put it back together, I have apparently missed a step along the line somewhere. I have the slide on it and cannot get it back off. It is not correctly sitting on the slide. I have worked and worked and can't figure it out. I have you-tubed and had to just put it back in the safe before I threw it across the back yard.
If anyone is familiar with them I would gladly pay for lunch and a couple of beers, to show me what I have done wrong.
 
Can you lock the slide back?
 
I have a P94 in the safe, not real familiar with it but if you can't get yours figured we can tear mine apart and see what we can figure out.
 
If you're still stuck I can scan a few pages from the owners manual.

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Here is what I got, the slide is half open, the takedown pin is not in the gun but, I can put it in place. The trigger works, as well as the de-cocker.
 
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Do you have the guide rod in upside down/latched in the correct place? Recoil spring on correctly?

If it ain't that, you need to flip the ejector down.
 
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premise said:
Found this:
https://www.gunandgame.com/threads/ruger-p95-what-did-i-do.58126/
scroll to post 16
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Thanks, I will try to fish the ejector back down tomorrow afternoon. I have never run into anything like this in putting a gun back together. There must be something about Rugers that don't like me. I fight my 22/45 lite every time I take it apart. I have gotten to the point of I don't clean it until it gets dirty enough that it starts jamming. Then I spent a whole evening trying to get that floppy thing in the right position, with the gun upside down, backwards, and me standing on my head.
 
I no longer have one but I seem to remember once upon a time getting mine locked up like this. It was a combination of the ejector being up when it shouldn't be and the guide rod being not quite in it's happy place.

If memory serves I fixed it by fishing the ejector down. Then pulling forward on the guide rod while shifting it sideways to get it back to where it was supposed to be.
 
Firemedic54 said:
Got it back together, I flipped the ejector down and it is now back like it is supposed to be.

Thanks guys, I feel like a bonehead.
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Don't! I had that *exact* same problem when I was learning how to take care of my P89. It's a design flaw in the firearm mechanism that you have to watch out for. Thankfully that's pretty much the only one. It's a great pistol otherwise! :)
 
The sear deactivation lever is in the Ruger P series, my S&W M&P full size pistols also have a similar lever that must be depressed before disassembly, it is a police trade-in with magazine safety.
 
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Button Pusher said:
S&W M&P full size pistols also have a similar lever that must be depressed before disassembly,
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mred20 said:
The M&P Shield has it also.
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Just a note: In the case of the Smiths unlike the Rugers, you don't have drop the lever to take down the gun, you can pull and hold the trigger (thus lowering the sear) and the slide comes off. the M&P takedown lever simply brings the sear out of engagement with striker.
 
I swear, every single Ruger automatic owner has run in to that problem at some point. It is such a different way to disassemble/reassemble than absolutely every other pistol. Don't feel bad!
 
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