VictorLouis
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I finally picked up one at the show today. It was a house warming present that I had promised myself. 
At $490, total, I hope I did good?
Anyway, I began my usual routine: read the OM, field strip, examine and clean. I began, as described, in the same manner as the E9 that I am already own. WRONG! It was immediately evident that it(P9) is stripped differently, and the owner's manual doesn't make note of this! Instead of lining up the slide stop's pin with the large notch in the slide(K/E9), you don't draw it back quite so far. There are two witness marks, one each on the slide and frame, which you mate up before punching out the slide stop. Does anyone else have this edition of the manual???
Now, I may be concerned over nothing with this observation, but I still need to ask. When fully assembled, the slide stop engages fully, and is impossible to depress on an empty mag. This is normal and typical for the Kahr. W/o the slide assy. installed, I inserted the slide stop pin into the frame to see how it was different from the E9. The pin itself spins freely, and is not rigidly fixed to the lever. When pushed past the retaining spring into the frame, it actually makes a chirping sound from the frictional resistance. When a mag is inserted, it will raise it up to the locked open position, as normal. When the mag is removed, it seems to remain partially up, with the locking corner wedged into the slide rail groove. When I put a slight bit of tension on the end of the stop pin, toward the trigger guard, it pops back down to the rest position. The cut-out it rides in is also not a perfect "U" shape, with parallel sides. The right edge seems to taper inward toward the top, like the tines of a tuning fork.
I am planing on breaking it in tomorrow, and I wanted to know if any of you have similar observations with your P9. Thank You, VL.
At $490, total, I hope I did good?Anyway, I began my usual routine: read the OM, field strip, examine and clean. I began, as described, in the same manner as the E9 that I am already own. WRONG! It was immediately evident that it(P9) is stripped differently, and the owner's manual doesn't make note of this! Instead of lining up the slide stop's pin with the large notch in the slide(K/E9), you don't draw it back quite so far. There are two witness marks, one each on the slide and frame, which you mate up before punching out the slide stop. Does anyone else have this edition of the manual???
Now, I may be concerned over nothing with this observation, but I still need to ask. When fully assembled, the slide stop engages fully, and is impossible to depress on an empty mag. This is normal and typical for the Kahr. W/o the slide assy. installed, I inserted the slide stop pin into the frame to see how it was different from the E9. The pin itself spins freely, and is not rigidly fixed to the lever. When pushed past the retaining spring into the frame, it actually makes a chirping sound from the frictional resistance. When a mag is inserted, it will raise it up to the locked open position, as normal. When the mag is removed, it seems to remain partially up, with the locking corner wedged into the slide rail groove. When I put a slight bit of tension on the end of the stop pin, toward the trigger guard, it pops back down to the rest position. The cut-out it rides in is also not a perfect "U" shape, with parallel sides. The right edge seems to taper inward toward the top, like the tines of a tuning fork.
I am planing on breaking it in tomorrow, and I wanted to know if any of you have similar observations with your P9. Thank You, VL.