Derya DY9Z Black Cherry Silver 9mm 3.5 in. – Proven 15+1 Micro Compact Optic Ready Pistol

Description

The Derya DY9Z Black Cherry Silver is a micro compact nine that arrives with the things most pistols in this class make you buy later: a metal fifteen round magazine, three backstraps, an optic cut that does not need a plate, and a case to keep it in. At twenty ounces and 6.5 inches overall it is genuinely small.

The finish is the part people notice first. A silver slide over a black cherry frame is not a combination anybody else is offering at this size, and the Derya DY9Z Black Cherry Silver is a real pistol underneath rather than a novelty built to carry a color.

What the Derya DY9Z Black Cherry Silver actually is

• A striker fired 9mm Luger micro compact holding 15+1 with the supplied metal magazine.
• A 3.50 inch barrel in a pistol 6.5 inches long, 5 inches tall and 1.10 inches wide.
• A silver optic ready slide with front and rear serrations, over a black cherry polymer frame with an accessory rail.
• An RMSc footprint optic cut machined directly into the slide, so a micro red dot mounts without a plate.
• Three interchangeable backstraps in small, medium and large, supplied in the box.
• Fixed white dot front and white U-notch rear sights, with a firing pin block and an anti-drop trigger block.

Magazines for the Derya DY9Z Black Cherry Silver, and one to avoid

• The pistol ships with a fifteen round metal magazine of its own. That is the one it was designed around and the one that gives the advertised 15+1.
• The grip also accepts Glock 43X and 48 pattern magazines, which is the single most useful thing about this design because those are everywhere and they are cheap.
• Factory Glock 43X magazines hold ten rounds. They will run, but they give up five rounds against the magazine in the box.
• Shield Arms S15 and similar steel fifteen round conversions are popular in the Glock 43X. Derya does not list them as approved for the DY9Z and using one may affect your warranty, so check with Derya before you buy one.
• Buy spares of the Derya magazine if you want full capacity, and keep a couple of Glock pattern magazines for practice.

Derya DY9Z Black Cherry Silver specifications

• Caliber: 9mm Luger
• Capacity: 15+1 with the supplied metal magazine, 10 round option available
• Action: Striker fired, semi-automatic
• Barrel: 3.50 in.
• Overall length: 6.5 in.
• Height: 5 in.
• Width: 1.10 in.
• Weight: Approximately 1.25 lb.
• Slide: Silver, optic ready, RMSc direct mount cut
• Frame: Black cherry polymer with accessory rail
• Sights: Fixed white dot front, white U-notch rear
• Trigger: Derya Second Wind trigger
• Safeties: Firing pin block and anti-drop trigger block
• Backstraps: Three supplied, small, medium and large
• Item number: DY9Z.BCS.TR

What comes in the box with the Derya DY9Z Black Cherry Silver

Derya publishes the DY9Z sheet on its own site if you want the manufacturer view alongside ours: the DY9Z product page lists the same dimensions, trigger and optic cut printed above, and confirms the package contents.

• A Derya case with cut foam, which is more than most pistols at this price arrive in.
• One metal fifteen round magazine.
• Three backstraps, small, medium and large, so the grip can actually be fitted rather than tolerated.
• A cleaning kit with rod, brush and key, plus a spare guide rod and the manual.
• For spare magazines, the Derya DY9Z fifteen round magazine is the correct full capacity spare, and Glock 43X and 48 pattern ten round magazines drop in as a cheap practice option. For practice ammunition, CCI Blazer Brass 115 grain 9mm is the clean burning default.

Setting up the Derya DY9Z Black Cherry Silver with a red dot

The RMSc footprint is the standard used by most micro red dots designed for slim nines, which means the Derya DY9Z Black Cherry Silver is compatible with a wide selection rather than a shortlist. Because the cut is machined into the slide rather than covered by a plate, the dot sits as low as it can and there is one less interface to work loose.

Torque to the figure the optic maker publishes and use thread locker. Then check the screws after the first hundred rounds. A direct mount is the most secure arrangement available, but a small pistol generates a sharp impulse and any fastener can walk. The iron sights stay usable under most micro dots, which is the sensible hedge for a flat battery.

Why the Derya DY9Z Black Cherry Silver earns its place

• A direct RMSc cut means a micro red dot bolts to the slide with no plate, no adapter and no extra stack of tolerances.
• Fifteen rounds in a pistol the size of the Derya DY9Z Black Cherry Silver is what buyers of micro nines have been asking for since the class existed.
• Three backstraps in the box is unusual at this price, and grip fit matters more on a small gun than a large one.
• The Derya DY9Z Black Cherry Silver feeds Glock 43X and 48 magazines, so practice ammunition is not the only cheap consumable available to you.
• Compliance note worth knowing: Derya lists the DY9Z as Maryland compliant, and not California or Massachusetts compliant.

The Derya DY9Z Black Cherry Silver suits the buyer who wants a small carry pistol without a small magazine, the shooter who has already chosen an RMSc footprint dot, and anyone who would rather their carry gun did not look like everybody else’s. The three backstraps mean it can be fitted properly to a range of hands, which is not a given at this size.

The Derya DY9Z Black Cherry Silver is a micro compact, so it will recoil more than a full size nine and the sight radius is short. That is the trade every gun in this class makes. Every firearm on this page ships to your chosen FFL for transfer and pickup.

A note on size versus shootability. At twenty ounces the Derya DY9Z Black Cherry Silver is light enough to forget on a belt, and that lightness is exactly why it moves more in the hand than a heavier gun. Shooters coming from a full size nine should expect to spend a few hundred rounds building the grip before judging it. The three backstraps are the tool for that job, and most people find one of them makes a bigger difference than any other change they could make to the pistol.