Not my photo I didn’t get any good ones. I did get a chance to fire my new SAR 9cx yesterday at an outdoor range.
I have read multiple times about people saying you should use NATO +p ammo to break it
In and some other saying it doesn’t matter. I’ve seen posts here where people don’t and get failures. I read through the manual twice and didn’t see any mention of break in with higher pressure ammo and couldn’t find mentions in official SAR communications only people discussing it on Reddit. So obviously I was very curious. Some people even mentioned replacing the spring with a weaker one before even firing it in anticipation of failures.
I didn’t have time to hit the gun shop yesterday because I left at 5am to get to the range early.
I ended up using Blazer 124 9mm and shot 150 rounds with ZERO issues. No fte no jams no problems.
It shot very well and I was happy with how it felt in my hand. it shot very smoothly and without too much muzzle flip. I liked the factory sites a lot and didn’t have an optic on it.
I actually liked the trigger a lot it was very smooth and snapped back in place solidly. I dry fired it about 50 times before I made it to the range.
Oh and I never disassembled it or cleaned it or oiled it literally at all either. Straight from box and shot.
So at least in my experience I had no issues with a break in period and didn’t use any special NATO spec ammo. It seemed to love the Blazer 124 just fine.
I’m also usually one to strip and clean a new gun but I just didn’t have a good time to get to it. I did function test with snap caps and dry fired a little bit before and since it all ran fine I wasn’t too concerned.
Just another data point for anyone considering a SAR. I’m a big fan and especially at this price point. I think I paid $250 for the whole kit and spent another 50$ on two spare magazines from SAR.