New Ruger LCP Max : 10/12 rds 380 ACP

the ruger lcp max let's check it out good ruger introduced the lcp in 2008 it was really a tiny little firearm and guys i have carried this firearm for a number of years and still do on occasion in 2016 they came out with the lcp2 which has a lot of improvements over the lcp but it's just a little bit bigger and then in 2021 they're introducing the lcp max this is a higher capacity 380 acp actually carries 10 or 12 rounds and this gives you a lot of firepower for a really small package and one of the big advantages of the lcp max is it is a very small pistol the recoil is fairly mild it's great to be able to carry for light carry or for those who really are recoil sensitive and yet you have 10 or 12 rounds plus one and i want to thank ruger for sending the lcp max for this review guys it's been a long time since the 380 has had a double stack magazine in a current production pistol and i really am glad that they've kind of come up to the new micro 9 double stack pistols that are that are out there there's so many different ones and so why not go with the 380 and give it that extra capacity so i think ruger's done a great job of doing that and i know they have sold a ton of these lcps again we have that original lcp which these have been around for a long time this one has the talon grips and it has the arachna grip along the top just to give me a little bit better gripping surface but i really love this little pistol but unfortunately this one's going to go away because you know having that higher capacity magazine is something else i mean with the lcp you've got just six rounds in one of the chambers so i've got seven rounds with the lcp i have the 10 plus i have a finger groove base plate that comes with it it only comes with one magazine and then we have a 12 round magazine and you can get these from ruger let's go ahead and check to make sure the gun's unloaded and again we had that flat uh base plate very slick finish mag and then the gun is empty now with this firearm one of the big advantages to me over the standard lcp is is the last round bolt hold open so once i fire it it's going to hold open and it held open every time so that gives you a lot of confidence you have your slide release right here and you can hit it now with the magazine inserted and the slide release engaged it is almost there it goes but it's almost impossible so this is really a slide stop more than a slide release but it does work this is a very small pistol and so it's going to hang off the edge but really with this little bit of a finger rest it gives you really a good size full grip now if you have large hands you know that's not going to be the case then you can bring in the 12 rounder which gives you a little more in fact we're going to go ahead and show the 12 rounder i mean they go in really well one thing i do like about it is that because it's beveled at the top and you have a little bit more of a mag well you're going to be able to slide those magazines even easier than you could with the originals and then here we have the original lcp2 and of course the design lines are very similar i mean it's pretty much the same in fact ruger says that the lcp max will fit into any of your lcp2 holsters but really the biggest difference is it's just a little bit thicker and you can see i mean it is not a lot thicker and so now i have the 12 round magazine on there and you can see that it doesn't go too far and yet i'm getting that extra capacity of six rounds with the lcp2 12 rounds in this configuration i mean that is a 50 increase another thing that's really big are the sights we have the dovetailed sights on the lcp max and that way you're going to be able to change those out on the lcp2 i mean you're pretty much stuck with what you have but this is a self-defense farm and it's up close and personal and to be honest with you you know these sites are adequate but now speaking of sites uh the sights on here are really excellent i mean we have a blacked out serrated rear sight with a u-notch and then we have a tritium bead at the front and again these are dovetailed and they're also compatible with the smith wesson bodyguard sights so you can have a lot of options to be able to put sights on here but personally i would really stick with what's here but if you have a particular choice it's going to give you some options now this site does have a little cocking shelf right here which i really like you can [ __ ] this with one hand off your belt off of a hard surface or even the sole of your boot but overall they're pretty much the same dimensions now the slides themselves have some improvements with the max and first off is the extractor the extractor is a little bit short it's a real pain to pull out with the lcp max you have a longer ejector it's actually easier to pull out it has a pin that drives all the way through and so this is going to make that a little bit better now one of the things about the lcp max is that they have had other improvements in internally to make it just more reliable with the sierra to hammer geometry it's been improved it's just going to make it a more reliable firearm and when you get to these really small pistols i mean they're very simple but you can have very slight differences and they can cause issues so it's really good to see ruger really kind of improving the design overall not just adding you know 10 to 12 rounds one thing you'll notice too with the lcp2 you're pretty much stuck with the mag release on the lcp max you're able to switch this out to the other side which is going to give you some advantages now the new max 9 does hold open on the last round and that is a big plus the original lcp did not with the lcp2 it will if you're using the lcp2 magazines even though these are compatible with your standard ruger magazines for your lcp now the lcpmax comes on the heels of the max9 and this is their nine millimeter pistol that just came out and uh 10 rounds up to 13 round capacity and the gun is unloaded this one comes with really good sights in fact it's a fiber optic with a tritium bead and to be honest with you most of the controls are very similar now with the lcp max you don't have an external safety which i do like i believe you can get the max 9 without the external safety but if that's what you want i'm sure that the lcp max will be available but this one is optics ready uh there's a lot of advantages it is nine millimeters so you're gonna have a little more self-defense capability with the nine and if we put in our flush fit magazine you can see you know you've got considerably less size with the lcp max and you have less width so this is going to be a very easy gun put in your pocket deep cover deep concealment and so there are some advantages to having a smaller firearm now the barrel is 2.8 inches in length it is all alloy steel typically with the rugers it has a black oxide finish on it and then it looks like it's been tumbled that's just the way that ruger typically does their firearms overall it's 5.7 inches in length and it's 4.12 inches in height again a very small thin handgun now one nice improvement that they made was to the slide for these little cocking shelves they're very minimal and yet it gives you a nice bite right here with the serrations here on the original lcp2 you can see that it's just plain even on the max 9 they did not add those cocking ears there is an aluminum frame insert we'll look at that when we break it down it's going to give it a little more rigidity and less flex with this actually glass nylon filled frame there's been improvements with the magazine feed lips there's been improvements with the feed ramp and also the barrel cam geometry it delays a little bit longer and so it allows for less recoil it just kind of dwells and then it comes back and a lot of the gases are already spent and we're going to test that out at the range right next to the lcp the grip texturing is laser cut it's a medium grip texturing honestly i think that with the lcp2 it has a little bit more aggressive texturing but you can see there is some differences and you have a smoother finish up here at the top but where you grab it and where your hands are it has more of an aggressive texturing and which could really aid in concealed carry it doesn't have all these geometric lines that go along the top it's just pretty smooth and honestly i really like that now this is a single action hammer fired pistol i'm going to bring it back you can see the hammer sitting right here and when you pull the trigger it goes forward and so this isn't a striker fire pistol it's more of a single action hammer fired pistol now it does have a gap right here at the cylinder and this is your loaded chamber indicator here you can see the loaded round through the chamber and so that is your loaded chamber indicator of course has bevels along the slide and this is going to allow for easier holstering of the firearm it does come with a pocket holster and it has that sticky material and so it just slides right in you can slip this in your front pocket in your back pocket and it just gives you some protection but it also kind of takes away from the lines of a firearm but of course obviously there's a ton of holster options for the lcp and so that way you can carry it however you want to we have 380 acp and we have 9 millimeter really these are the same diameter as far as bullets in fact in europe this is called the nine millimeter cursed for short this is a 95 grain bullet moving at 960 feet per second this is fiocchi and this is the 115 grain full metal jacket and it's going at 1200 feet per second so you have a considerable amount of advantage with nine millimeter but you're going to have more recoil with the lcp max 11 ounces lcp2 10.6 ounces guys that's less than half of an ounce difference the original lcp 9.6 ounces ruger max 9. 18.4 ounces considerably heavier now when it comes to the trigger we'll go ahead again and drop the magazine check the chamber and it's unloaded it does have what they call the secure action bladed trigger and this is very similar to the security 9 and the ruger 5 7. there is a small blade here that's going to be a safety and it keeps you from inadvertently hitting the edge of the trigger and this going off now one of the things that i'm going to tell you that's kind of funny is that when you pull the trigger that is a c i thought that was really funny it just has that c sound to it reset about right there there we go so if you want to have the c unload your firearm you can get c and i checked it but as far as the serious trigger action we have some take up right to about here now you'll notice there is a trigger stop down here at the bottom and so when you pull the trigger there's take up just a little bit of resistance there and then there's the brake it's not a competition trigger but it's definitely an improvement over the other lcp line and for those of you who are wondering we're going to try the lcp2 to see if it has a tone nope it's just a ting but it's definitely not as good as the lcp max let's check the trigger pull weight with our lyman trigger gauge from brownells five pounds three point one ounces four pounds fifteen point two ounces so around the five pound range and guys this is nice because these original lcps the trigger pull is about 10 pounds it was horrible now this is one of the upgraded versions and it has a better trigger and then of course with the lcp2 they even improved the trigger even more and so i think they're really going in the right direction the one thing about the c note is that you have some culture when you're firing your firearm and you're sure not going to be able to hear it because 380 is a lot louder than that c note now you do get a loader that comes with the pistol and it's just one that pushes down i'm going to tell you with these magazines especially the 12 rounders once you get about 10 rounds in it gets a little bit stiff at least it did it first so just depress the loader throw your round in lift up and then push back and so it's a great little loader easy to load now for me i'm a big fan of the lula loaders and lulu sends these to me because they know i love them and the even the full size maglula works and we really appreciate fiocchi for sponsoring the ammo this is the 380 full metal jacket and guys right now 3d is a little difficult to come by hopefully that'll change it's starting to change but uh this is all made in the usa and guys this stuff is very reliable [Music] guys went down to the range and i knew what to expect with the lcp2 and the lcp i've been carrying them for years they're very reliable little small tiny handguns very easy to conceal and even with this small package with 380 acp they're fairly mild to shoot and actually with the lcp2 this pistol was designed to mitigate even more of the recoil and so it's really easy to shoot now i really love the sight system they have on here with that tritium front bead but what really makes a difference is that it's dovetailed and if i want to switch these out i can even with the 12 round magazine it barely adds any link to the grip and it just is a soft shooting very reliable handgun we had no malfunctions at all with the lcp max now guys it's tiny it's small and so shooting it even in 380 acp is going to have a little punch but it's very manageable guys i highly recommend shooting with one hand whether it's your strong arm or your weak side something can happen to your hand and it can really limit you know your use of this firearm but one thing that i found was that with the lcp max it shoots naturally one-handed sometimes especially with nine millimeter and above you know it tends to really ride in a different angle with the lcp max it seemed to really stay on target and then with that rear sight that has the cocking shelf if you do need to reload you can do it on your boot your belt or some hard object now we're going to compare the original lcp to the lcp max this has some federal hst ammunition in both so we're just going to really test the recoil [Music] definitely a noticeable difference between the two the small lcp is super thin and the grip already helps but you can tell that there's just a little bit less recoil with the max [Applause] now let's disassemble the firearm of the magazine's out the gun is unloaded go ahead and bring it back and engage your slide lock right here is your take down lever there's not a pin to push through from the other side now you can take a small shell get up under it pop it out or you can take a small flathead screwdriver we can take this right out uh that is one thing that a lot of people complain about is that you have to have some kind of tool to be able to disassemble it and two this comes out of the pistol so i would have to say that's a little bit of a con now you don't have to pull the trigger to pull the slide off it just comes right off now here we have our recoil spring it is a dual recoil spring it is not captive but it is on a steel guide rod and then we have our barrel right to pull that thing out there we go with that bevel on the end it makes it a little difficult with the feed ramps it's been really improved i mean they're very smooth polished even though they are black oxide or blue and so again they have had some changes to the barrel itself here with the frame we have the aluminum frame that's an insert and it has the rails that run all the way down so that's going to give you a little more contact surface with the slide and so it's going to really help to keep this rigid and again it's not going to have a lot of flex i like that here you can see that the hammer which is an internal hammer but it's a really simple design but it is a super small pistol and guys that's all you need to do to field strip for reassembly take our barrel get it back in take our recoil spring and guide rod there's a small cavity in front of the barrel hood right here you can see and so it just fits down into that cavity and then we're going to bring it back over our slide now you don't want to engage your slide lock because the barrel comes all the way back and so what we're going to do is is go ahead and just try to get this pin in here just bring it back a little bit and you want to get it where there's a little bit of a gap in the barrel and there's a spring right there you've got to get it over it and then push it through it's really not that difficult once you get the hang of it now pros and cons of the pistol i love the last round hold open i love the improved trigger it just seems more solid when you're firing it and of course with the 10 to 12 rounds you've got a fairly decent capacity and still a really small firearm i love that they've dovetailed the sights which gives you options it's one of the things about the originals that the sights were fixed and there was no changing and i think the geometry in the internals also has been improved just to give you better reliability it is in 380 acp which is on the lower level of acceptable self-defense but one thing about 380 acp is it's more controllable because of less recoil and you're able to get better shot placement and that's one thing that you definitely want to do if you're carrying a 380s you want to make sure you get those shots on target the difference with the lcp is you have six rounds with this you have up to 12 rounds so it gives you a lot more capacity and then again with those with weaker hand strength or that are just a little bit recoil shy the lcp max is going to be a great option now as far as price goes and this has just come out so all i can go by is the msrp and it's 449. but the lcp2 retails for 409 and so you'll probably pay about 30 difference for the lcp max compared to the lcp2 so that just gives you kind of a ballpark i think that the lcp2 right now at academy is running about 329. so guys if you're looking for a really small lightweight carry option or you're more recoil sensitive and you like something that's just really soft to shoot and yet has a really high round capacity check out the lcp max the lcp line has been around for a long time and it's been proven and now with the lcp max and the advances in this system this is a great option especially for 380. and again we want to thank ruger for sending the lcp max for this review guys if you depend on a firearm for self-defense it's really important that you don't go it alone i've been a member of the uscca or the united states concealed carry association for over four years and it really gives you peace of mind the uscca was founded to help you understand laws and self-defense education they offer industry-leading training and to me one of the most important features is they offer self-defense liability insurance they have 100 risk-free money-back bulletproof guarantee i'll have an affiliate link down below in the description and guys when it comes to a self-defense situation with uscca you have a friend be strong be of good courage god bless america long live the republic [Music] the recoil is really low okay to have a lot to have more with the lcp max you're going to have a longer uh exactly just a little bit of an extended rear celebration i do like this little cocking shelf right here this is going to allow you to [ __ ] off your belt off a hard surface or even the okay [Laughter] and so it just goes in this is just ready yeah i love that okay what is that it's a smith and wesson oh bodyguard handed on occasion because that is

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Length: 23min 27sec (1407 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 30 2021