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

Description

The Derya DY9Z Blue Silver is the blue framed member of the DY9Z two tone range, with the same silver optic ready slide the rest of the series uses. Underneath it is a 6.5 inch micro compact holding fifteen plus one, which is the specification that matters.

A lot of pistols in this class arrive as a bare gun in a plastic bag. The Derya DY9Z Blue Silver comes with a case, a metal magazine, three backstraps, a cleaning kit and a spare guide rod, and it has the optic cut milled in rather than offered as an upgrade.

What the Derya DY9Z Blue 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, weighing about 20 ounces.
• A silver alloy steel optic ready slide with front and rear serrations, over a blue polymer frame with an accessory rail.
• An RMSc footprint 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, a firing pin block and an anti-drop trigger block. Item DY9Z.BLUES.TR.

What you are actually getting for the money

• The metal magazine matters. Polymer magazines are cheaper to make and they are what most pistols at this price ship with.
• Three backstraps is a content decision rather than a marketing one. Most makers charge for the second and third.
• The optic cut is milled into the slide of the Derya DY9Z Blue Silver rather than sold as a plate kit, which is the expensive way to do it correctly.
• A fitted case and a cleaning kit are small things individually and they add up to a gun you do not immediately have to spend more on.
• None of that would matter if the pistol were poor. It is not; it is a conventional striker fired design executed properly.

Derya DY9Z Blue 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 alloy steel, optic ready, RMSc direct mount cut
• Frame: Blue 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.BLUES.TR

Magazines for the Derya DY9Z Blue Silver

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

• The Derya DY9Z fifteen round magazine is the correct full capacity spare and the one the advertised 15+1 is based on.
• Glock 43X and 48 pattern magazines also drop in. They hold ten rounds and cost very little, which makes them the practice option.
• Steel fifteen round conversions such as the Shield Arms S15 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 first.
• For ammunition, CCI Blazer Brass 115 grain 9mm is the clean burning practice default.
• Buy magazines before a class rather than after. Two is a range trip and four is a training day.

Blue with silver, or blue with black

We list the DY9Z in blue two ways. This is the two tone, with the silver slide. There is also a blue framed DY9Z with the standard black slide if you want the color without the contrast. The closest two tone siblings to the Derya DY9Z Blue Silver are the black and purple versions.

Mechanically all of them are identical, so this is entirely a question of taste. The one practical note is that a silver slide shows holster wear differently from a black one: marks appear as darker lines rather than bright ones. Neither is a defect and neither is warrantied, and a gun that lives in a safe will not show either for years.

Why the Derya DY9Z Blue Silver earns its place

• Fifteen rounds at 1.10 inches wide, as on the Derya DY9Z Blue Silver, is the specification that made the micro compact class worth revisiting.
• A direct RMSc cut takes a micro red dot with no plate and one less set of fasteners to watch.
• Three backstraps means the grip can be fitted rather than endured, which matters more on a small gun.
• Glock 43X and 48 magazines drop into the Derya DY9Z Blue Silver, so cheap practice magazines are available alongside the factory one.
• Compliance note worth knowing: Derya lists the DY9Z as Maryland compliant, and not California or Massachusetts compliant.

The Derya DY9Z Blue Silver suits the carrier who wants full capacity in a genuinely small pistol and likes the blue, and the shooter setting up a first optic ready carry gun who does not want to buy a plate as well. The Derya DY9Z Blue Silver shares magazines, holsters and parts with the rest of the DY9Z range.

The Derya DY9Z Blue Silver is a micro compact, so it moves more in the hand than a full size nine and the sight radius is short. Spend the ammunition to learn it. Every firearm on this page ships to your chosen FFL for transfer and pickup.

A last practical point about optics on a pistol this small. The Derya DY9Z Blue Silver has a short slide, so a large window micro dot can look out of proportion and, more importantly, can overhang the rear of the slide where it will catch on clothing. Stick to sights designed around the RMSc footprint rather than adapting something larger, and the gun stays as carryable as it was without one.