Slide stop change

[Impureclient]

While inside walking around the house, watching TV, or whatever without looking I load the mag of my CW9 and with slide back, release slide stop,
trigger pull, repeat with one snap cap to train myself to be able to do it without thinking and also to get faster at it.
I was just now running through it when all of a sudden my slide stop seemed to get stuck. I'm used to the amount of pressure it takes
as I've done it many thousands of times with this gun. It didn't seem it was going to release so I did a quick field strip and see if something
was stuck.
It was all good, so I reassembled and it released but it was much tighter. Then after a couple more cycles it went back to normal.
Any ideas why it may have gotten tight all of a sudden? Is it bad to cycle the gun too many times with the dummy rounds causing premature wear
or does it make it smoother as I had believed.

 

[rcmodel]

In effect you are fighting the magzine spring when the mag is empty.
Kahr says this about that:

Q. Why is it difficult to close the slide on an empty magazine?

A. The slide release on the Kahr pistol has been designed to warn the shooter when the magazine is empty. When the slide is held open on an empty magazine, the slide release is very hard to depress. To easily release the slide, either remove the empty magazine or replace it with a loaded magazine. Depressing the slide release will then be much easier.

Why it is easy part of the time I couldn't say unless you have more then one mag and it has a stronger spring.

rc

 

[jocko]

something changed, have no idea what or why. are u talking about dummy rounds like snap caps in the magazine and then just ejecting and it refeeding another dummy round. I would not see any reason why they would effect anything. No premature wear is happening. It is far easier to relase the slide stop with no magazine than a unloaded magazine in the gun, as u are not putting pressure downon the follower also, Could that have been possable for u.

 

[Impureclient]

The mag had the round in it when this occurred. After the field strip it went back to normal after a couple more cycles. This almost felt like that though, what you posted from the Kahr manual. When the mag is empty it feels like it won't release but it does. That's what this felt like.

edit: I put the snap cap in the mag, the slide is back, insert mag in the gun, release slide stop, fire, pull slide back ejecting snap cap and slide locks back, then release mag and repeat.

This was a one time thing out of the thousands of times I've been doing this.

 

[rcmodel]

Maybe possible the snap-cap is shaped enough different then real ammo that it is coming in contact with the slide stop and holding it up.

I have seen this happen with real ammo in 1911's and other guns where bullet shape was weird enough the bullets would bang the slide stop and lock the slide open before the mag is empty.

rc

 

[jocko]

it happens yet

my kahr P380 will not feed 102 grain golden sabres, due to the bullet hitting the inside of the slide stop lever and prematurely locking the slide open. It works with every other round I have tried.

I did file down the inside of my slide stop to allow the 102 grain sabres to pass by and they worked great but now the slide will not lock open about 25% of the time. I filed just enough to clear but I think this was now to much for slide locking. In as much as I don't carry a spare magazine when pocket carrying, the slide not locking open on the last round doesn't really bother me as i do like the 102 gr sabres in my kahr P380..

Just not alof of room in those tiny semis to squeeze all these bells and whistles in. Maybe that is why the Ruger lcp and the kt 380's don't have auto slide stops either. My lcp feeds any 380 rounds,

 

[SwampWolf]

Maybe that is why the Ruger lcp and the kt 380's don't have auto slide stops either.

Though I have heard that the new Taurus sub-compact .380 does come with an auto slide stop. I don't know this for a fact. I've only seen pictures of the new baby Taurus.

 

[jocko]

yes

the taurus 380 does come with a auto slide stop. remains to be seen how it works out. They have had time to work out those little bugs.

I think kahr is working on this slide stop thing to. It seems mostly in the 102 grain sabre round and nothing else. I just changed over to corbon 90 hp and it shoots great. they say critical defense ammo works great also. Ihave about 750 plus rounds down range in my P380 and the only round of issue is the 102 gr sabre round, so I just switched..