Kahr CM9 nightmare!

[Ben86]

I have never had a problem with my pm9. I have owned it for about 3 years. I hope they make this problem right, the pm9/cm9 is one of the few true pocket 9mms out there.

 

[C0untZer0]

I just took my magazine apart to make sure that the magazine wasn't installed backwards (it was) and I discovered that the follower was broken - I haven't even taken my CM9 to the range yet - I was just working my way through all the prep work that is recommended on the KahrTalk forum.

 

[Djay]

Wow! That is a really sad commentary on the state of Kahr service.

I bought an early Kahr K9 from them during their early years as a company. I called Kahr after having trouble holding the slide in the correct spot for slide removal. A very nice fellow told me he used a plastic spacer for take down. He sent me his personal fabricated spacer! (They now offer a commercially made one.)

Their early years customer service was exemplary. Sad to learn of your poor "current era" service.

 

[oneounceload]

Just picked up a CM9.

I've manually racked the slide 260 times as of this morning.

Why? If you go to the Kahr forums and follow the sage advice about checking the magazine springs, you should have no issues

 

[JohnBT]

"because the Rohrbaughs have sold the company and are re-locating the manufacturing equipment to South Carolina "

I heard they were moving production to North Carolina, but maybe that was just the new owner's mailing address - Remington's mailing address.

 

[C0untZer0]

Why? If you go to the Kahr forums and follow the sage advice about checking the magazine springs, you should have no issues

Jocko's sage advise is to rack the slide manually a numerous times.

#4. Now, with an empty gun and no magazine, rack the slide numerous times, this will help recoil spring set without the bang thing happening. Hand racking never replaces the actual "bang" thing but it does not hurt a thing either.

He didn't say to rack it 260 times, but manually racking a firearms shouldn't hurt it. I actually got all the way to 500 before I went to the range. I posted elsewhere that I ran 100 rounds of "NATO" ammo through it and only had one small problem - the slide didn't lock back on an empty mag, but I think my thumb was pushing down on the slide stop. I'm not counting that as a malfunction.

Having a piece of plastic fall out of the magazine can be a little disconcerting, but bottom line - my CM9 functioned well in its first outing.

 

[Arizona_Mike]

Now I feel bad because my PM40 has been absolutely flawlessly reliable. Accurate and low recoil too.

Mike