Range time with PC Charger and an upgrade for the Roof Koreans

Took the little Ruger PC Charger out for a spin yesterday. Holy Drokk, it is fun!

But, we ain’t here for fun, son….we’re here to gear up against the unknown future. So..how’d it shoot in regard to that? Let’s review….

I only put fifty rounds of S&B 115 FMJ though it, using ETS happysticks, but of that fifty I had 0 malfs. Everything fed, fired, and flew just fine. I had  low hopes for the red dot Bushnell because, honestly, I’ve never really thought of myself as a red dot kinda guy and have no experience with them. As it turns out, it performed quite well. Got it sighted in and was ringing the 6″ plate at 50 yards with regularity.

The SB ‘brace’ (aluminum model) worked fine. One of the gun review sites had problems with theirs on the Ruger saying that the direct blowback caused a rear-and-downward recoil impulse that would unlock the folding mechanism on the brace. Not a problem for me since I prefer my stocks to fold to the right, so I had mounted the brace bracket upsidedown and reattached the arm. As a result, any rear-and-downward motion actually locks the thing up more. No problem.

Whats the purpose of this thing? For me, its pretty simple. When I roll into the office and tuck my Bag O’ Tricks under the desk I want to have a compact little ‘carbine’ with mag commonality with my Glock pistol for those days when things have gone so far sideways that just a pistol might not be enough to keep things calm. LA Riot type stuff.

So, thus far, with a very limited amount of range time, I rather like this thing. I need to dump a few hundred more rounds through it but so far I like it and I like the possibilities it opens up for me in terms of a handy little PDW-style gun that can travel quite well. It’s an absolute shame that Ruger was hamstrung for so many years by Billy Ruger and his Fuddness. Ruger clearly has some talented engineers and idea guys over there and the results of them getting let off the leash once in a while have been rather cool.

Speaking of LA Riots, we all know, love, and respect the Roof Koreans, right? Well, in (S.) Korea they take it to a whole new level:

Roof Korea is best Korea

16 thoughts on “Range time with PC Charger and an upgrade for the Roof Koreans

  1. Yeah, when your capitol is 5 minutes’ flying time from your fiercest enemy, you take ADA seriously.

    The briefing for the DMZ, confirmed by visual, was that “you don’t need a compass in the DMZ to navigate in the daytime. Just find the nearest hilltop with a HAWK missile battery; whichever way the front end is pointing is North.”

    Concur on the Ruger toys; shame I’ll never get to play with the Charger hereabouts. The PC-9 Carbine Takedown is nice enough.
    Both of them want a can, and one of those 50-rd Glock drums, whenever possible. Because you never know. And those zombies aren’t gonna kill themselves. 😉

    • That photo brings memories of both tours of Korea. Those little guys, and I don’t mean the Koreans, are literally everywhere. Towed and SP Vulcans, Hawk batteries, Stingers and so on. And don’t even think you will get to go onto one of their bases even as a American service member. Don’t ask how I know this.

  2. Top of the world Ma
    Still wish they would of let me take my 155 howitzer home when the USMC decided they didn’t want them any more,same tax stamp as a can or full auto,sbr.

  3. Hope he’s got some serious hearing protection stowed away in there somewhere…

  4. Hope they don’t leave the circuit breakers in the basement unguarded.

  5. My two short tours in Korea, Osan and Kunsan, had these and the Quad-50s setting around all over the place. I was hoping they had full ammo cans, as the guards at the gate had no ammo with them.

  6. I happened to finally shoot my PC Carbine this weekend as well. I lost count of how many times we threw steel with it. At least 250 rounds of various 115gr. Took 5 shots to fix the elevation on the red-dot (standing, just turning the screw) and the thing was a virtual kid’s cap gun that was able to hit whatever you pointed it at with little effort out to 25yds. I was able to consistently hit the 100yd steel (chest size) after figuring out to aim at the stand instead of the target. Weird, but hearing the ping nonetheless felt good.

  7. I did a 25yd zero. This has a 6.5″ barrel, not 18″ like the PC9. I would need to take my PC9 back out there with iron sights. The current scope on that is set to 75 yds with paper.

    I lean towards more luck from just painting around it until I found where to aim to hit it.

  8. I remember reading a short article in SOF magazine many years back about how a reserve squad was drilling with the Vulcan on the roof of a major five star hotel in downtown Seoul, and they accidentally ripped off a hundred rounds or so.

    Supposedly shook the whole building or something, and broke out a bunch of windows.

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