Guillermo
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Kahr CW40 a POS?
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7 for sure:
Only two things can cause the slide to lock open. One your thumb could be engauging the side lock lever. #2 the rounds in the magazine are hitting the inside of the slide stop lever causesing premature slide lock.
Take your slide off and then load a magazine with your rounds that have been giving these issues and insert the magazine and see if that top round is indeed hitting or engauging the slide stop lever. If it is, call kahr and have them send you a new slide stop lever.
As far as the magazines falling out , u either have a bad magazine button or again one can be hitting the mag button and not realizing it. My bet it is a bad magazine lever or even a broken magazine lever spring.
Both issues are not good that is for sure but they are solveable, I feel without sending the gun back to kahr also. I doubt if you have 3 bad magazines..
If it is lockingopen EVERY SHOT, then u could also have the slide lock lever inserted on top of that little spring on the side instead of under it. That little spring should be always pulling the slide stop lever downward, not upward. The only thing that moves the slide stop up is the magazine follower on the last round or as I stated #2 above will also cause it..
Only two things can cause the slide to lock open. One your thumb could be engauging the side lock lever. #2 the rounds in the magazine are hitting the inside of the slide stop lever causesing premature slide lock.
Take your slide off and then load a magazine with your rounds that have been giving these issues and insert the magazine and see if that top round is indeed hitting or engauging the slide stop lever. If it is, call kahr and have them send you a new slide stop lever.
As far as the magazines falling out , u either have a bad magazine button or again one can be hitting the mag button and not realizing it. My bet it is a bad magazine lever or even a broken magazine lever spring.
Both issues are not good that is for sure but they are solveable, I feel without sending the gun back to kahr also. I doubt if you have 3 bad magazines..
If it is lockingopen EVERY SHOT, then u could also have the slide lock lever inserted on top of that little spring on the side instead of under it. That little spring should be always pulling the slide stop lever downward, not upward. The only thing that moves the slide stop up is the magazine follower on the last round or as I stated #2 above will also cause it..
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I can understand the OP's frustration with the CW40. I had a very similar experience with one. Mine would stovepipe, FTF, lock the slide open while trying to feed, and would allow the slide to jam past the slide lock lever to where it could not be re-closed. After contacting Kahr, I was told that WWB was "too cheap" and "imported" and was likely at fault. OK. Tried all the major brands with the same exact experience. Contacted Kahr again. This time, it was the magazine. Bought a spare mag and sent in the original mag (which did seem to have a damaged follower). Got replacements back and the gun continued to fail. At this point, Kahr itself was willing to have me ship (on my dime) and have them work on it, but the delay could take three months.
I decided to sell it. It was going to be my CCW piece and I would NEVER have been able to trust it again. Additionally, the company was just beyond smug when contacting them. The last straw was when I really started going over the gun prior to selling it, and thought "this just isn't that well made".
YMMV, but there are many great products on the market. I went with an M&P and have never looked back. You can also add me to the list that will never purchase another Kahr.
I decided to sell it. It was going to be my CCW piece and I would NEVER have been able to trust it again. Additionally, the company was just beyond smug when contacting them. The last straw was when I really started going over the gun prior to selling it, and thought "this just isn't that well made".
YMMV, but there are many great products on the market. I went with an M&P and have never looked back. You can also add me to the list that will never purchase another Kahr.
M& P volk. a shame anyone from kahr would tell u wwb is imported. IT IS NOT and if it was, it should work PERIOD.
Ur right, once you losse trust in ANY gun, the best thing to do is peddle it. I love my 3 kahrs but Iam not married to them. It they acted up like yours did, I would get if fixed first then peddle it. I could not in good faith peddle a bad gun.. If any caliber seems to be a troublesome round in guns is seems the 40 cal wins every time, Now I know you guys will say my 40 cal such and such is perfect, but again i say the most problematic seems to be the 40 cal. Certainly glock has had alot and I mean alot of issues with the 40 cal .Some swear by them some swear at them. Kahr polmer 40 calls seem to also get alot of complaints
Ur right, once you losse trust in ANY gun, the best thing to do is peddle it. I love my 3 kahrs but Iam not married to them. It they acted up like yours did, I would get if fixed first then peddle it. I could not in good faith peddle a bad gun.. If any caliber seems to be a troublesome round in guns is seems the 40 cal wins every time, Now I know you guys will say my 40 cal such and such is perfect, but again i say the most problematic seems to be the 40 cal. Certainly glock has had alot and I mean alot of issues with the 40 cal .Some swear by them some swear at them. Kahr polmer 40 calls seem to also get alot of complaints
LightningJoe
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While the rest of us will never need our guns, a true man of action like flipper should carry a revolver.
Guillermo
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TheWarhammer
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roflmao!!!!!!!!!
Pietro Beretta
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I have to agree Kahr is CRAP.
I guess im just used to firearms designs that are *almost impossible to re-assemble wrong.
I guess im just used to firearms designs that are *almost impossible to re-assemble wrong.
smoke63b
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It's a pretty well documented thing that the .40S&W has had a lot of issues in a lot of platforms. I used to own a glock 23 and it performed flawlessly for me and was very accurate. I have read a LOT about the issues with .40 though.
Guillermo
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I am pretty sure that RoboCop was saying that Kahrs in general "clean the cat box".
That said he has not been around in a while. Probably on TAD undercover at the arcade next to the cinema.
That said he has not been around in a while. Probably on TAD undercover at the arcade next to the cinema.
earlthegoat2
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I have found Kahrs to be very finicky with people who do not read their manual. They are also quite prone to limp wristing. Now if you do everything right and read your manual and follow it and keep a firm wrist everything is fine. I have never had a problem with any I have fired but I play by Kahrs rules. It is not a pistol for everyone I have learned. Shoot, even I dont carry one. I know they work for me though.
On another note and I may not be alone here:
This sounds a lot like one of our very old friends doesnt it
On another note and I may not be alone here:
This sounds a lot like one of our very old friends doesnt it
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Guillermo
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Shadow 7D
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Hammer, I apologize, it seems that you were very justified in breaking out the Mall Ninja, you see, I had to buy a new computer after about a quarter of the way through the saga of Gecko 45. It seem that my old computer had a particular disliking for my brand of coffee I was soaking in because I was laughing so hard.........
The honest truth is that I'm some what scared to read the rest of the saga, I might end up breaking the new computer or something else.
I could swear those fish live at the beauty salon and not the pet store, some kinda Hollywood pedicure were piranhas eat your calluses off
The honest truth is that I'm some what scared to read the rest of the saga, I might end up breaking the new computer or something else.
I could swear those fish live at the beauty salon and not the pet store, some kinda Hollywood pedicure were piranhas eat your calluses off
earlthegoat2
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Kahrs are POSs just like HK MP5s are POSs compared to an SW5 or a Hi Point Carbine.
And for your reading enjoyment the original mall ninja threads:
http://www.geocities.com/suketh.geo/gun/mall_ninja.html
And for your reading enjoyment the original mall ninja threads:
http://www.geocities.com/suketh.geo/gun/mall_ninja.html
AKElroy
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Ummm, 18?
Just cancelled my trip to North Carolina--Place is a freaking war zone!!
Guillermo
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If you are forced to go, don't carry a Kahr. You'll sleep with the fishes
smoke63b
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You'll be drug out feet first.
Guillermo
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no...the gangs will display your dead body at the main entrance to the mall
Somehow I have the image of flipper coming in like Clint Eastwood in the bar shootout in the movie Unforgiven
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cw3g7gT4OBo
Somehow I have the image of flipper coming in like Clint Eastwood in the bar shootout in the movie Unforgiven
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cw3g7gT4OBo
TheWarhammer
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No offense taken, Shadow. I've read the entire Gecko saga and, believe me, you'd better wrap your keyboard in a plastic bag if you plan to drink coffee while you read it!
Schofield3
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......Then that fella sold his POS and nobody ever heard from him again....-tumble weed rolls by-....end scene
hahaha!
Guillermo
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and it is obviously true since our finest hero is MIA
AKElroy
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