RWS Career 9mm Review

Overall Rating

I am using 158 grain bullits HN highspeed roundnose, and 129 grains.
The RWS Career 9MM has excellent knockdown power and grouping fulling the rifle 185 bar.
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Members' Comments onalexis00's Review

• simo74 on 18th Apr 2006

  Can you say the diameters of those bullets you use?
  
  And aren't those little bit too heavy especially that 150 grains?

• Redblur on 7th May 2006

  I have the career 9mm ultra repeater. I'm always trying diffrent ammo I've tried hornady's 90 gr xtp and 95 gr fmj both are junk trust me don't use anything copper jacketed. I've also tried a 93 gr .358 reloader from meister (all lead) is not too bad its good for plinking, turn the gun down with no jams and you can get a bag of 500 for like $20. I also got the .355 92gr from meister and it just wasn't wide enough and couldn't stabilize. I found that the .355 didn't penetrate as well as the 93gr nor did the rifiling cut very deep into the lead after recovering the shot round. The 93 gr seemed to cut simular to the depth of the 90gr that pyramidar sells. I just bought some .360 round balls and havn't had a chance to try them yet and frankly I'm a bit nervous it'll jam I'll make another post if anyone wishes to hear my opinion and results on them. In conclusion if you NEED to make a shot use pyramidair's 90 gr they are the best, followed by the Korean pellets and very close 3'rd with the 93 gr reloaders from meister. You get what you pay for. It seems the barrel is designed for at least .357 - .358 Hope this helped someone! Happy shooting~hunting

• alexis00 on 8th May 2006

  hello, the answer about the bullet is a haendler&natterman from germany, it's the 158 grain with teflon around it (yellow-orange)also, i am using the 9 mm 115 grain-heat with teflon! Execellent fast scoring and knocking downpower, ask the gunshop about these bullets and try a handful, I bring it at 185 bar. greetings from alexis

• simo74 on 8th May 2006

  Thanks for comments, and Redblur i'm very interested of how those .360 round balls work. I will get my Career Ultra inside couple weeks and here in Finland they sell only eun jins for it. So those pyramidbullets are no available for me and i would like to try other real lead bullets when i get the gun. Still thanking you Redblur for information that .355 92grs are not good choise. Because i was just about making order for them. So let me(us) now about those .360 balls then. Hope they will not jam. Regards, Simo

• Redblur on 17th May 2006

  Hello again, I tried those .360 round balls and they worked good, they are a little on the rough side loading cause it has to shave .002-.003 to load but besides that they fire good even on low power.Keep in mind you will have to adjust the pellet stop because they are much smaller in length and tend to pinch the next ball in the mag or just pull back the spring a bit so it dosn't pinch the next ball in line(don't ask how to adjust the pellet stop I've never done it, its too much work and you throw off the scope when you take it off) .Honestly as far as groups I'm not quite sure because my gun was long overdue for a cleaning. But with a dirty barrel I was still able to hit apples consistantly at about 40 yards (shooting fruit is always a fun time) If I had to guess which shot more acurately the .358 or the round ball I would probably choose the round ball but I still think the korean pellet shoots more acurately than both. Again you can pick up like 500 round balls for probably $15-20 instead of like $60 for 500 korean pellets. Have fun with the new gun! Pick up a gun cleaning kit if you don't have one, those lead bullets foul the barrel quickly.

• simo74 on 19th May 2006

  Hello! I haven't got a gun yet but will soon and thanks again for good information. Im gonna buy those .360 balls too now knowing they will work. You said that barrel needs cleaning frequently but can you say how you do it? Am i right that rifle has to be cocked first and then from the muzzle to the breech using cleaning rod. And what i think is that one has to be careful with that oil not letting it go to wrong places like seals etc.?

• Redblur on 22nd May 2006

  Honestly i never really thought about the seals if someone else reading may know wether or not its a good idea they might want to post. I just use standard gun cleaning equipment. I run the wire brush through it a few times to loosen all the lead then I just run hoppes no.9 through it till it comes out clean, then I run some good barrel lube through it. In my opinion I don't think the cleaner will even touch the seals to ruin them, just make sure you put the cleaning cloth through the rod and not in front of the rod so the rod hits the end of the barrel and not the hoppes covered cloth because that probably would be bad. As far as the seals go, i don't know.. I've never herd of any way to service them and I'm a bit nervous as to what to do when the seals do go because I've never herd of anyone that works on them nor do I know where to get parts for them. For now anyway it works great I have at least 3000 rounds through it using various power settings much more low than high because pumping it is really annoying so I usually pump it to about 3050 PSI to 3100 PSI and just turn down the power so the round dosn't go nuts (remember 207 bar is 3000 psi). Of course remember the manual says NOT to go over 3000 PSI I don't want to be responsable for anyone ruining their gun or getting hurt so don't tell anyone I said its fine. At full power 2850-2650 PSI is where you get your best power and acuracy. Once you've had it for a while you can figure out where to put the power gauge for better consistancy if you slightly overfill it. Figure about 80-90 PSI per full power shot down to about 20-30 PSI for a low power shot. I'm ranting again.. Have fun! Let me know if you have any other questions I'd be happy to answer them.

• simo74 on 25th Sep 2006

  Hello again,
  
  Well it's been a long time but I finally got the 9mm Ultra from Pyramydair a couple weeks ago and have been shooting almost everyday with it. I bought those 76,4 grain Korean pellets and found out that they don't work well in my gun. I don't know what Korean pellets you say work well but with my gun I had to remove the pellet stop because it just didn't allow pellets to go in the barrel. Now that is removed I can still only load one pellet at a time into the magazine - if I try to put two or more in it will jam when cocking. Well anyway I have ordered those .360 round balls and they will work good I hope. So I have been shooting with those Korean pellets and I cant hit anything at 50 meters. I shoot at 30 meters and get about 4 inch groups. I thought that this gun might not be as accurate as my Career Carbine .25 but still I expected much better accuracy. The trigger is also very hard to pull even though I adjusted it to be as light as possible. Maybe and hopefully it will get better. Power is great though. But just have to wait for those round balls - I will get back here after shooting them.

• simo74 on 28th Sep 2006

  Balls came and now the gun is absolutely great. Its from a hole different planet.

• Redblur on 29th Sep 2006

  Glad to hear the round balls worked for you. You may need to clean the gun more often with them because of the size of the ball but you can't beat the accuracy of them. As for the Korean pellets I'm a bit surprised those always shot really good for me - you may have just gotten a bad batch.