Kahr K-9 Question

[Partisan Ranger]

I took my K-9 out of the safe last week to carry as my CCW for the day. I keep it locked and loaded. I noticed the slide was back about 1/2 inch with a round in the chamber. When I dropped the mag and pulled back the slide, the round stayed in the chamber. I tilted the gun back and the round fell out of the chamber.

I put the mag back in and chambered the next round just fine. What's going on? Is this something with the gun or just an issue with that round? I have Winchester White Box JHP in the gun.

I've fired it about 500 times and have never had a single problem with it.

 

[pauli]

sounds like it just didn't go into battery the last time you loaded it.

 

[Snowdog]

I couldn't quite grasp what you explained happened (it's been a long day for me), but I'll point out that K9s are notorious for having extremely tight chambers. This is one of the reasons it's not the best idea to use low quality reloaded rounds that haven't been resizing.
Cheap, unresized American Ammunition is to blame for an embarrassing back to the factory fix-my-pistol experience I had after buying mine.
Perhaps this is partially to blame for your odd experience. Hope you figure out the culprit, as the K9 is an excellent pistol.

 

[sgt127]

I would guess the round that was in there was hand cycled. either it popped out of the magazine a little early as you were closing the slide and got in FRONT of the extractor or the extractor spring is weak and just popped over the rim. While shooting, I doubt this would happen as the fired case coming back would help alot with extraction. The other possibility is (don't get mad) is if you dropped the round in the chamber and then closed the slide. IF you did that, don't, if you KNOW not to do that and wouldn't think of doing it...I apologize...but, you did ask how this could happen.