This was roughly the sequence of events as they transpired from the time I first used my shiny new G9x mouse to the time I got the new one from Logitech's warranty department. Except it wasn't so much a "boom" as it was a "crack", since the 5.56 cartridge isn't really that big. The first click being a successful click, the second being the one that heralded a failing right mouse button. It's always the right buttons that fail (the "durability" rating for each button on the G9x product page says 8 million clicks; I seriously doubt I opened more "Properties" menus than I opened programs-via-shortcuts). I had a Saitek Cyborg mouse that lost it's right button functions. And like the Cyborg mouse, I took the G9x out and shot it like a lame horse. Only this time I used a steel-core penetration round (SS109), instead of a hollow-point .45 ACP (I was just curious to see what all that "blunt-force" of a hollow point would do to a circuit board encase in plastic; the results were mildly satisfying/I think I'd have gotten better results with a soft-point, but then I've never seen JSP available in .45 caliber).


As for claiming the warranty on the mouse itself, I was surprised (but not really, considering corporate greed) to find that the "three year" warranty only extends from the date the mouse was manufactured, not when it was purchased (I bought it on July 30, 2010; It was actually delivered and in my hands a week-and-a-half later, so I've not even used it a whole year) . Apparently my mouse was made just on the safe side of 2009 (meaning I got to claim my warranty).