r/Stoeger

I’ve seen a few field stripping videos of the STR9 and the takedown is almost the same in all of them.

However the reassembly varies. One person did it slightly different from the manual because they said it was wrong or poorly written. Another said the trigger needs to be back in the forward position in order for the plunger in the slide to be able to clear it when sliding it back on. Another tried to reassemble it “exactly like a Glock” and wound up breaking the back cap off the slide.

So before I clean mine for the first time, I wanted to see how everyone here reassembled it without issues.

I’ve got an STR-9 coming and was wondering if I should start with 124gr to break it in, or if 115gr would be fine and work without issue? I thought I had read something about not ejecting the 115gr well (Or maybe that was only an issue with the first production run).