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RUGER SR40


not large enough to rest your thumb on while you shoot, but it is easily and swiftly disengaged during the draw stroke. I’ll give the safety an eight out of 10. Another ambidextrous feature of


the SR40 is the magazine release. It’s in the traditional location but there is a release button on both sides of the frame. I wear a large glove and found I could depress the release with either my trigger finger or shooting-hand thumb without altering my grip. With the slide forward, the magazines, which have holes to show an accurate round count from four to 15, were forc- ibly ejected; with the slide to the rear they easily dropped free. The maga- zine release on the SR40 gets a 10. The most unique feature of the SR40, or any SR pistol for that matter,


might be the oversized, loaded-cham- ber indicator. It is a lever positioned on the top of the slide. The lever is just over an inch long and when a cartridge is in the chamber, the front of the lever protrudes .12" above the slide. Unless you are as blind as a bat and have numb fingers, you can’t look at or hold an SR pistol and not realize it is loaded. This indicator does give the pistol a somewhat weird profile when loaded, but the indicator isn’t visible at all when you are shooting. Aesthetically I’ll give the indicator a two, but from a practical standpoint it gets a 10. That averages out to six out of 10, for simplicities sake.


Backstrap Options Like many polymer pistols, the


SR40 allows the backstrap to be


Common with polymer-framed, semi-auto handguns, the Ruger SR40 has a steel recoil block imbedded in the frame.


cocked-and-locked. I really like a safety that locks the slide because it makes the gun so much easier to holster; you don’t have to thumb the back of the slide to keep it from moving to the rear as you slide the gun in tight leather. Ruger also made this safety ambi-


dextrous. It is easy to deactivate, but because of its smallish size, it might re- quire repositioning of the gun in your hand to engage. The safety is so small, in fact, you won’t even realize it’s there when you are firing the handgun. It’s


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The SR40 is a full-size pistol that should fit medium to large hands very well. Because of the trimness of the grip, even shooters with small hands will find the pistol shootable.


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