While trying to decide between the LC9 and the CM9 at the local gun show last weekend, the wife told me to get both. What a great idea! So I did and took them to the range yesterday. I ran about 320 total rounds of 115, 124, & 130 grain hardball through them before I stopped.
My impressions are as follows:
>Both guns are accurate at close range (15-21 ft).
>Recoil for both was surprisingly light.
>The CM9 had one FTFeed at somewhere around rnd 15-20 then ran great.
>The LC9 ran great.
>Both had intermittent failure of the slide hold open after the last round; the LC9.
appears broken, as it fails 80-90% of the time, the CM9 failed 20-25%.
>Both triggers are good. The CM9 is better and it may shoot more accurately because of
that. Hard to tell .… I wouldn’t win any prizes with a handgun.
>Sights are better/faster on the CM9.
>None of the safeties on the LC9 bothered me and the grip (with pinky ext) felt better to
me than the CM9 without. On a side note Kahr is offering a free magazine right now.
>The CM9 is built to tighter tolerances. I don’t know if that translates to a better gun,
but there it is. The slide spring in the CM9 is a slight PIA to compress due to it’s length.
All in all a very difficult choice between the two, made easy for me for now due to a (IMO) glaring oversight on Kahr’s part. The bottom edge of the slide is a meat slicer and I will have to stone/bevel/sand…do something to it before I shoot the gun again. It tore off enough skin I had to stop shooting before I was ready.
My impressions are as follows:
>Both guns are accurate at close range (15-21 ft).
>Recoil for both was surprisingly light.
>The CM9 had one FTFeed at somewhere around rnd 15-20 then ran great.
>The LC9 ran great.
>Both had intermittent failure of the slide hold open after the last round; the LC9.
appears broken, as it fails 80-90% of the time, the CM9 failed 20-25%.
>Both triggers are good. The CM9 is better and it may shoot more accurately because of
that. Hard to tell .… I wouldn’t win any prizes with a handgun.
>Sights are better/faster on the CM9.
>None of the safeties on the LC9 bothered me and the grip (with pinky ext) felt better to
me than the CM9 without. On a side note Kahr is offering a free magazine right now.
>The CM9 is built to tighter tolerances. I don’t know if that translates to a better gun,
but there it is. The slide spring in the CM9 is a slight PIA to compress due to it’s length.
All in all a very difficult choice between the two, made easy for me for now due to a (IMO) glaring oversight on Kahr’s part. The bottom edge of the slide is a meat slicer and I will have to stone/bevel/sand…do something to it before I shoot the gun again. It tore off enough skin I had to stop shooting before I was ready.