 Hey there friends, thanks for checking in. This video is sponsored by Sonoran Desert Institute. If you're interested in a career in the ever-growing firearms industry, arm yourself with an education. Sonoran Desert Institute offers online learning like armor courses all the way up to an associate degree. Visit sdi.edu or call 480-999-4767 to learn more. Hey there friends, thanks for checking in. Today we're revisiting the Ruger American Compact 45 in Cerakote Crane. Let's go ahead and take a few shots and we'll talk more about this. I've owned this for about a year now and really think a lot of the pistol. Seven round mags and a good looking pistol. Now the American series that Ruger has produced has been great. I own several of them. I have this for about a year. I've had it for about a year now and this is the gray model. Now comes Cerakote, Cerakoted from the factory with the gray slide and the gray frame. The grip modules remain the same black and this one has an extended base plate for three finger contact. 3.75 inch barrel, Novak sights, three dot sights, it does have a rail. It's a good looking pistol and a trigger that I'm measuring right at five and a half pounds. Let's take a look at that. Also the gray model comes with three magazines as where the Compact 45 in black only has two magazines so they offered a little bit more there. Here's your first pull. Five and a half pounds reset right there with the trigger bar safety included. Now it's a it's a good looking handgun. It's a good firing handgun. Ruger raised the price of this. It was $599 MSRP but it's now $649 and so we're seeing that across the board as the demand for firearms has increased in the last couple years. It's not just Ruger but Ruger did raise the price $50 on this model. It has a great ergonomic feel. It's a nice shooting handgun. It's been extremely reliable since the time I've owned it. It does have a sight hole indicator there, a pick rail and it's ambidextrous. The controls both slide stop and magazine release on both sides making it left-handed friendly and the three magazines also has a base plate that has a pick extension and a flat base plate for those who want to carry it in its smallest form. Now I remember I did a comparison with this and the Glock 36 and I shot them side by side as fair as I possibly could be and I chose the American Compact 45 because it is such a smooth shooter. It is so well built and I really enjoy the American series plus it's ambidextrous so I'm not left-handed but I know a lot of lefties would certainly appreciate that. Let's go ahead and load it up. We'll take a few more shots and talk more about this Ruger American Compact 45. I mentioned the grip modules but I didn't tell you that Ruger offers three in the case. This is the pro model. It does not have a thumb safety there. Others are available with some thumb safeties. Ruger calls the non-thumb safety models the pro models. Let's go ahead and shoot one-handed and we'll show how this thing disassembles. All right I think it's a beautiful gun. I love Cerakote. Cerakote is such a strong substance added to the firearm. I don't know that there's anything better and if there is I certainly haven't heard of it. The Cerakote holds up so well over time. I mentioned I've had this for about a year now and one of the things I think is so easy with Ruger's is this assembly. Simply lock the slide back and you move this lever down and pull it off the frame. No reason to pull the trigger and here you can see it does have a dual recoil spring and a 3.75 inch barrel and there is the frame. Now you'll look inside you'll see that the entire frame with Cerakote gray not a scratch on it and like I said I've had it for a year and it's like in perfect condition. So the 45 compact the gray model and you know the black model is just as good. It's just that I think this has a cool look and you know as well as I do that beautiful guns matter and people love them and I think this is really cool. There is minimal recoil being such a light gun with a poly frame. The recoil feels extremely manageable with the American Compact. Let's see if the American Compact 45 will charge around by punching a mag home and it will. But now we need a limperous test. American Compact 45 passed the limperous test. So there it is the Ruger American Compact 45. This is the gray model with the 3.75 inch barrel. Great Ergo feel to it. I chose this over the Glock 36. I have a lot of respect for that but I have a ton of respect for this as well. I think it's beautiful. It's functioned well. Like I said I've had it for a year now and I cannot remember one male function with this pistol. Super happy to own it. I had to get it back out. Feature it once again because I think it's pretty cool. If you like videos like this please subscribe and share. I always appreciate thumb's up button. Thanks for watching and you guys be safe.