As a bit of an update on our ongoing evaluation of the new Ruger RXM pistol system, we've been hitting the range, swapping out parts, and running it suppressed-- and it won't stop. 

Call it the Gluger, or the R-lock, Ruger's RXM in many ways is what Glock should have done in the respect that the band of the Red Phoenix has taken what is perhaps the most universal semi-auto striker-fired pistol, the Gen 3 Glock 19, and upped the game on it with a modular fire control system that can easily be swapped across non-serialized grip frames. We weren't excited about it at first but once we started shooting it, we had to admit that Ruger is on to something here. 

As a bit of background, Guns.com's own Alexander Reville was on the ground at the RXM's pre-launch event in Louisiana last summer and dropped 1,500 rounds through a test gun with no issues. Moreover, the group ran over 7K rounds through a high-use gun that had been set aside for such abuse. 

While Alexander has since gotten a production gun to use and abuse (extensive review inbound), I've been kicking around a second T&E model since November 2024. By the time the RXM was made official and launched on the consumer market in early December 2024, I had dropped a bit over 500 rounds through it with no issues other than a tendency for the Magpul PL9s (factory standard to the pistol) to fail to lock back occasionally on an empty chamber/mag.  

Since then, I've upped the round count to nearly 1,000 across no less than 10 different loads and have yet to experience a malfunction. However, about half of that has been with different slides, barrels, and grip modules, and a bulk of that has been done while suppressed. 

The great thing about the RXM is that it is close enough to spec to the Gen 3 G19 that it accepts most parts. For several range sessions, I have swapped out the top half of my now 13-year-old G19 with well over 15K rounds through it, and observed no issues. 

Ammunition used in testing has leaned heavily on 115-grain Blazer FMJ, 124-grain Federal Syntech, 147-grain Syntech Training Match, and 150-grain Syntech Action pistol when it comes to training rounds and an assortment of Federal and Speer JHPs. 

To see how omnivorous the RXM could be, I recently ran through a salad bowl of 10 different loads drawn from a stack of loaded magazines that have been forgotten, sitting in a bag in the back of my closet since about 2005ish. Running them through the pistol in O.E. unsuppressed format (all Ruger), with the Glock/Lone Wolf loaded slide (suppressed and unsuppressed), and with the Lone Wolf barrel in the Ruger slide (with and without can), it continues to be dependable. 

The below is a mag of 10 different rounds (RP 115 FMJ, MagTech 115 FMJ, Win 115 FMJ, FC 115 FMJ, Blazer 115 FMJ, PPU 115 FMJ, Speer 124 JHP, Browning 124 JHP, AE 147 FMJ, and FC 150 FMJ), some of it well over two decades old, running in the RXM suppressed. Again, the barrel is a threaded and fluted Lone Wolf M/19 while the can is a SiCo Omega 36M. Everything else is factory original.

Results are typical.