>>Hi JYogi...
Welcome to you as well here on the Rohrbaugh Forum...!...sit back and enjoy the fun and please share your experiences with the R9 with the rest of us here...when you decide to buy off Guns America. I would be curious too as how your buy goes from there and what it ends up costing you...?
Regarding the effective range of the R9... One of the earlier gun mag reviews of this pup stated it was accurate out to at least 25 yards with the correct ammo...this is obviously the sighted version of the R9. Quite honestly, in all my shooting with the R9 I have tried it beyond 15 yards...but it worked fine at that distance - probably best I can do with it is a 4" group at that range. But fact is the R9 was developed as a "belly gun" for short range defense...so most of my shooting is at the 2 to 10 yard range...and it is very effective when used there...even if you don't have sights (I have two R9s...one with, the other without sights).
We look forward to your contributions here at the Rorhbaugh Forum...!!