silicosys4
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Steel Kahrs are sweeet
plastic Kahrs are complete POS's, all of them.
plastic Kahrs are complete POS's, all of them.
plastic Kahrs are complete POS's, all of them.
My two aren’t.
I had a CW9 for less than a year. I really like that gun for CCW use but it proved unreliable and the customer service was even worst. With less than 1000rd through the gun, the trigger bar broke. The customer service was very difficult to work with just to get an RMA number and then it took another 3 months to fix the gun. The repaired gun was never right it would light strike 2-3 rounds per box (even with premium ammo) and I never trusted it to carry after that. The idea of dealing with customer service against to fix the light strike issue was so repugnant that I traded it (with full disclosure) to a buddy for an XD-45. This was ~10 years ago and hopefully they have improved their customer service.
Never tried one, Glock either. The only fer-in made pistol I have is a Walther PPKs and its made here.
have a look inside your grip at the spring for the magazine release. The way the designed the spring in the polymer frame Kahrs is different and much cheaper than their steel frame guns. They imbed the end of a rod in the frame and use the opposite end as the spring. After a while the polymer loosens around the spring, the spring loses tension, stops holding the magazine catch in place, and the magazine starts falling out under recoil. Thats hi point level design quality. On a $300 CW, hmm....On a $600 PM9, .
I will say mine failed on the CW, not on either of my PM's. Maybe the PM's have an insert in the frame for the spring end instead of relying strictly on the polymer. Maybe the newer ones do as well. My CW didn't at the time.
Their solution was to send me a replacement release that was machined longer to take up that slack. They knew enough about the nature and predictability of the problem to have a ready supply of purpose made parts, but they wouldn't redesign or recall the gun. Maybe they have redesigned it since then, I don't know, don't care.
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Then take a look at the slide stop spring.
There is a reason nobody else does it that way.
They eat magazine followers. They eat slide stop springs. They have a cheap design quality. They have issues with the magazine release. They have to have a 200rd break in period, requiring you to spend a significant amount of money on ammo. They are notoriously unreliable. The percentage of people who have owned them and won't carry them is significant.
That being said, I loved the trigger on them, enough to be burned three times by plastic kahrs yet still buy a K9.
The K9 is a whole different animal. Extremely well made and reliable, compact, and pleasant to shoot.
My bad. Sounds Korean.KAHR’s are US made
company headquarters is in Greeley, PA….
manufactured in Worcester, MA.
That's funny...it is meant to sound German. It is a made up name made up for marketing like Haagen DazsMy bad. Sounds Korean.
Kahr recently built a “break-in” machine that racks the slides 200 times at the factory before the pistols are shipped out. That was in response to the negative feedback about the original break-in recommendation.You do realize that Glock magazine release springs work the same way, right? And Kahr made the same 200 round break-in recommendation for the metal framed guns before they even made a polymer model.
I’ve been shooting my P9 for almost 20 years now. I’ve replaced the recoil spring and the extractor spring as wear items but nothing has broken. Maybe I’ve just been lucky. The experiences of other people do not change my experiences.
That's funny...it is meant to sound German. It is a made up name made up for marketing like Haagen Dazs
My bad. Sounds Korean.
Massad Ayoob (among others) recommends shooting 200 rounds of your preferred carry ammo just to make sure your gun is functional before trusting it to save your life. I can see how that would get expensive unless you get a deal. Most self-defense ammo isn’t cheap.Kahr recently built a “break-in” machine that racks the slides 200 times at the factory before the pistols are shipped out. That was in response to the negative feedback about the original break-in recommendation.
Kahr recently built a “break-in” machine that racks the slides 200 times at the factory before the pistols are shipped out. That was in response to the negative feedback about the original break-in recommendation.