Someone at my range is selling his P380. He's had it around a year and has put around 500 rounds through it. I'm interested in buying it and today I got to shoot it. In 50 rounds I had 2 misfires (which did fire when I put them through a second time) and several failures of the gun to go fully into battery, requiring me to smack the slide with my palm to seat it.
Both "duds" were from the same box of Winchester FMJ "Train and Defend." I've shot almost 800 rounds of it in 9mm and have never had a single failure, so it's odd that I'd get two in one box here.
As to the gun, it had a pretty generous coating of pocket lint. He said he'd last cleaned it about 2 months ago. Given Kahr's overall reputation for reliability, I would assume that the two duds were a fluke of that particular box of ammo (the owner said he's never had it fail to fire before, but he's never run Winchester) and that the slide issues could be fixed by a good cleaning and oiling.
The slide popped forward once on its own when I inserted a magazine, and once failed to go into slide lock (though I may have had my thumb resting against it).
On the other hand...if I'm going to trust my life to something, it needs to go bang EVERY time. And it needs to start banging again when I change magazines, EVERY time. Can't be fooling with slides getting stuck.
Has anyone had much experience with this model? Similar instances? I plan to go poke around some Kahr forums too.
On the sunny side, the gun shot great and was accurate--kept everything inside the 9 ring out to 40 feet. It also didn't slip out of my hand the way some other little pocket guns have done.
Both "duds" were from the same box of Winchester FMJ "Train and Defend." I've shot almost 800 rounds of it in 9mm and have never had a single failure, so it's odd that I'd get two in one box here.
As to the gun, it had a pretty generous coating of pocket lint. He said he'd last cleaned it about 2 months ago. Given Kahr's overall reputation for reliability, I would assume that the two duds were a fluke of that particular box of ammo (the owner said he's never had it fail to fire before, but he's never run Winchester) and that the slide issues could be fixed by a good cleaning and oiling.
The slide popped forward once on its own when I inserted a magazine, and once failed to go into slide lock (though I may have had my thumb resting against it).
On the other hand...if I'm going to trust my life to something, it needs to go bang EVERY time. And it needs to start banging again when I change magazines, EVERY time. Can't be fooling with slides getting stuck.
Has anyone had much experience with this model? Similar instances? I plan to go poke around some Kahr forums too.
On the sunny side, the gun shot great and was accurate--kept everything inside the 9 ring out to 40 feet. It also didn't slip out of my hand the way some other little pocket guns have done.
at least they will fix it