Anything bad to say about Kahrs?

I had a P 9 which I purchased about three years ago. It was flawless and utterly reliable. I bought it because it was so light and reasonably small. I sold it because I wanted smaller (colt pocket nine).

I experimented and wasted a lot of money looking for the smallest most powerful pistol I could get my hands on.

I arrived at an MK40 in stainless and it is one I will never sell. It is, in my opinion, the absolute most pistol you can get in the smallest package that is still controllable.

One of the things I have done with all of my pistols is to oil and grease them. Many people neglect or never lube their pistols and then have feed, extraction and other issues. I can't say that they are totally related, but I have never had a pistol that would not feed or extract. I take em all apart, clean up any machining chips etc and oil and grease em (Mobil 1 oil and telfon grease)

The P9 problems with slide lock back are somthing I never experienced. And my P9 ran regular and +p ammo without a hitch.

I just found out that I can order 20 dollars in trigger parts and upgrade my MK40 to an Elite trigger. Definitely gonna do it.
 
Love my Moonie Gun!

As if that church tidbit really mattered very much... Hell, if Jimmy Swaggart or Tammy Fae Baker built a pocket 9 that was as well made and performed as well as the Kahr K9, I'd buy one in a heartbeat! I've owned my police trade-in K9 ($250.00 was just too good a price, and the clincher for me) for about 6 months, and 400 rounds. The bluing on the left side of the frame and slide was basically gone, so what the heck, I had a Glocksmith friend of mine polish out the feed ramp and lockwork for an even smoother DAO pull. I always considered myself to be a .45 ACP person, I own several >$1K custom 1911's, including a Caspian Officer's ACP, but the one gun that rides in my pocket the most has been this early-model K9. I'm gonna feel naked when I send it back to Kahr later for a free re-bluing. It is awfully heavy for a pocket 9, but that makes for a comfortable shooting pistol.:D
 
The only problem that I've experienced with my Kahr P40, is that the trigger pin backed out about 3/16 of an inch after firing 100 rounds or so. I also noticed that the trigger pin had begun to back out on a used P9 that I saw at a local gun shop today. Kahr said that this has been a recurring problem on their polymer framed pistols. They said that reversing the pin will solve the probelm. Hopefully, this will be a permanent fix.
 
I generally thought the polymers were suppose to be less recoil than the all steels, no? From some of your posts, I get the impression that the polymers were more felt recoil..

Albert
 
Force = Mass x Acceleration

A polymer-frame pistol may direct the recoil energy into your hand ever-so-comfortably (felt recoil), but a heavier (steel) gun will always kick less than it's plastic counterpart, due to the physics involved (real recoil). Luckily, in the handgun world, there are different ways of making that hard jab into your hand bite a little less, to include different grip designs, aftermarket grips and sleeves of varying composition, barrel porting, different bullet weight and velocity ammo, and so forth. When you've safely reached the theoretical lower mass limit for a polymer-frame, single-stack, pocket 9mm, as Glock, Kahr, and Kel-Tec have, you will end up with a good bit of recoil. And that's probably the reason I haven't bought a pre-agreement S&W Airweight .357 Magnum J-Frame, yeouch!!! ;)
 
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