Gewehr98,
Thanks for the info! It does give me a lot more than the standard gunshop employees' 'they're GREAT!', as they arrange the sale. I do have another question, but it isn't Kahr specific. I have a S&W model 410 semiauto that also has a tight takedown pin. What I have been doing, and I used this technique in the gunshop to successfully remove the Kahr pin, is to remove the magazine and us a corner on the magazine to push the pin out of the frame. In your comment, and many others I have read on various boards, you mention a dowel or mallet. I haven't run into anyone suggesting what I just did.
Is this because it is so obviously wrong that I shouldn't do it? Keep two things in mind: both the magazine and pistol are unloaded and I am a newbie, who grew up on revolvers and never even shot a semiauto until last august. If this is not a safe technique, can you let me know? I don't want to damage anything. I thought of it because it helps to truely 'field strip' the pistol. After all, we usually don't carry a mallet, dowel, brass punch set, etc in our pockets if we are carrying in a holster and out 'in the field'.
One other question. How well does Parkerizing 'wear' in the holster? Again, I am primarily used to revolvers [blued and stainless only], so I have never owned a parkerized gun of any kind. I know I would like to get the pistol refinished, for both cosmetic and maintainence reasons. You are the second person to recommend parkerizing, but I really don't know much about that, other than it looks kind of fuzzy and blackish-grey. Is it more durable than a good blueing?
Thanks again for the info on the Kahr!
jason
Thanks for the info! It does give me a lot more than the standard gunshop employees' 'they're GREAT!', as they arrange the sale. I do have another question, but it isn't Kahr specific. I have a S&W model 410 semiauto that also has a tight takedown pin. What I have been doing, and I used this technique in the gunshop to successfully remove the Kahr pin, is to remove the magazine and us a corner on the magazine to push the pin out of the frame. In your comment, and many others I have read on various boards, you mention a dowel or mallet. I haven't run into anyone suggesting what I just did.
Is this because it is so obviously wrong that I shouldn't do it? Keep two things in mind: both the magazine and pistol are unloaded and I am a newbie, who grew up on revolvers and never even shot a semiauto until last august. If this is not a safe technique, can you let me know? I don't want to damage anything. I thought of it because it helps to truely 'field strip' the pistol. After all, we usually don't carry a mallet, dowel, brass punch set, etc in our pockets if we are carrying in a holster and out 'in the field'.
One other question. How well does Parkerizing 'wear' in the holster? Again, I am primarily used to revolvers [blued and stainless only], so I have never owned a parkerized gun of any kind. I know I would like to get the pistol refinished, for both cosmetic and maintainence reasons. You are the second person to recommend parkerizing, but I really don't know much about that, other than it looks kind of fuzzy and blackish-grey. Is it more durable than a good blueing?
Thanks again for the info on the Kahr!
jason