Ruger P-94 Barrel
 

Hi All

I am trying to find a replacement barrel for the p-94 ruger 9mm pistol. I have been on goose chase after goose chase, does anyone have any place I might look? The barrel is just worn and is not accurate anymore. This pistol is stainless but the barrel could be steel, as I just want to hit the target again. Thanks for any help you can come up with.
Wayne 21

is it a 9mm, or a .40 cal? Have you tried Ruger's parts department? Here is a link their parts book which will have the part number. http://www.ruger-firearms.com/Firear...ooklets/C6.pdf

Sorry to inform you....
 

But you just can't go buy a replacement barrel. If you need a new barrel, you will need to contact Ruger. You will need to send your firearm back to them so they can fit the new barrel and send it back to you.

Although most gun parts are cookie cutter, barrels still need to be fitted by a professional at the factory. After putting a new barrel in, they will have to check head space to make sure it fires correctly and that it works correctly will all the other parts.

Also, changing the barrel is essentially buying a new gun with regards to ballistics so they will fire new test cases to send back to you in case your state requires you to turn in a spent shell casing. Some states require it for ballistics match in case your firearm is ever used in a crime.

Sorry to say, but I don't really agree with any part of this post. Is this some ruger specific thing? Do you have any references for your various claims?

Numrich Gun parts:

>>> Barrel'd! <<<

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Yeah... say what? 99% of stuff is completely interchangeable. It's a cheap Ruger 9mm, not a .338 Lapua Arctic Warfare sniper rifle...

New barrels for everything from Glocks to ARs to HKs and Uzis can be installed by intelligent private citizens with minimal instruction. It's not rocket science nor is it a tight custom 1911 that requires ass-rape hand fitting. In most cases, it's like changing a freakin' light bulb. Especially for clunky Rugers.

+1 for "Yea, what?"

Heh... this actually amuses me. I've never heard anybody refer to a Ruger as "tight" or all that accurate. I own a few Ruger revolvers but never bothered with an auto. They're ugly and overbearing.

Old Ruger autos seem to shoot like clunky steel slingshots.

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Perhaps it's a Korth P94.

OK, in my haste to post this I misspoke about the barrel and interchangeability. I was thinking of the slide.

However I still stand by the rest of my post about changing the barrel changing the ballistics of the gun and some states requiring a spent shell casing to be turned in to the local PD to be put into a ballistics data base for match up if your gun is ever used in a crime.

Slides are just as interchangeable as barrels...without parts interchangeability, the magic economies of scale involved in mass production fall flat on their assembly-lined faces.
And what states would those be, exactly? You are making a rather elaborate claim while providing no factual basis...or, as the cool kids like to say, [citation needed]

Turns out I trade the slides between my Beretta M9 and 92FS Inox all the time, bro.

Click-click and suddenly I have me a two-tone John Woo pair of clunky Italian Lethal Weapons.

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REVOKE HIS USERNAME!

j/k

MD and NY are the states within the 50 that require ballistics identification (fired shell casing) and ONLY in the case of NEW GUNS from the manufacturer. Weapons modified (new barrel, for example) or sold private party are exempt.

So what were you saying again?

If you look at the post made by cj, way up at the top, there is a link to the Ruger parts list for the pistol the OP is asking about. For both the barrel and slide, the parts booklet says these are factory fitted parts that are sold on an exchange only basis. If you want to find a parts dealer that may have one and try go for it.

I'm glad others have been able to interchange slides, I have tried to do this with 2 HD Military H series pistols and it wouldn't work so please don't tell me they all interchange perfectly.

And thanks for Jinn for tracking down a couple of states that require a spent shell casing.

Best thing to do, is check local and state regulations for your area when doing any modifications.

Mostly because Ruger is the original "Lawyer Special." They're super-cautious about liability, especially so since the SR-9 and LCP "drop-gun" disasters. It's got nothing to do with fitting and everything to do with Ruger being gun-shy about lawsuits; the same reason Ruger weapons have a paragraph on the barrel and crappy triggers.

Probably because those pistols were built in the Way Back When and their components were worne through use, making them incompatible. Slide interchangability is a given on modern production firearms with the frequent exception of 1911 pistols. The 1st Gen S&W Sigma, in fact, was nicknamed the "Swock" because you could drop a Sigma slide onto a Glock, or a Glock slide onto the Smith & Wesson, and both weapons would fire and function as designed. S&W lost a major patent-infringement suit over that, and had to redesign the Sigma's upper end significantly. Likewise, I can swap slides around on any Glock, XD, M&P, (on the same weapon type: an XD slide will not fit a Glock) etc...provided calibre is not an issue and the weapons have the same length barrel and slide assembly.