dschuetz26
03-06-2012, 07:22 PM
I have now shot about 500 rds through it...
PROS: Very accurate, great sights (fully adjustable), smooth trigger pull; very easy to conceal with the Galco M7X holster I bought; recoil is less offensive than the LCP and other similar sub-compacts in .380 I have shot and finally... no external safety (but that is my personal preference), Great customer service.
CONS: Long trigger pull (long but very manageable for quick succession); sharp edge on the slide at the front of the ejection port (but that fixes easily with a fine file), very stiff recoil spring made manually locking the slide back difficult until I got used to treating it like a gun and not a piece of china. And for the worst of it... The floor plate of the flush fit 6rd magazine slid roght off the bottom of the magazine while I was doing a tactical reload and pressing the bottom of the mag upward to seat it. The shooter next to me had my magazine spring hit him in the leg and all my rounds land on his feet. (ALWAYS CARRY A SPARE MAG NO MATTER WHAT GUN YOU CARRY!).
On another positive note, I immediately contacted the western region sales rep for Kahr via email, explaining the issue. He personally called me a few hours later and we discussed the problem. Of course I expressed my dissatisfaction with the design of that magazine. Ultimately I discovered that the floor plate on the standard included magazine in the CW9 fit the 6rd mag from the CM9. I contacted the rep again and he had two of those floor plates to me in a couple days, no cost. He repeatedly told me they would do what it took to make me happy. And I am thoroughly pleased with this gun. Overall rating in my book is a 8 out of 10.
PROS: Very accurate, great sights (fully adjustable), smooth trigger pull; very easy to conceal with the Galco M7X holster I bought; recoil is less offensive than the LCP and other similar sub-compacts in .380 I have shot and finally... no external safety (but that is my personal preference), Great customer service.
CONS: Long trigger pull (long but very manageable for quick succession); sharp edge on the slide at the front of the ejection port (but that fixes easily with a fine file), very stiff recoil spring made manually locking the slide back difficult until I got used to treating it like a gun and not a piece of china. And for the worst of it... The floor plate of the flush fit 6rd magazine slid roght off the bottom of the magazine while I was doing a tactical reload and pressing the bottom of the mag upward to seat it. The shooter next to me had my magazine spring hit him in the leg and all my rounds land on his feet. (ALWAYS CARRY A SPARE MAG NO MATTER WHAT GUN YOU CARRY!).
On another positive note, I immediately contacted the western region sales rep for Kahr via email, explaining the issue. He personally called me a few hours later and we discussed the problem. Of course I expressed my dissatisfaction with the design of that magazine. Ultimately I discovered that the floor plate on the standard included magazine in the CW9 fit the 6rd mag from the CM9. I contacted the rep again and he had two of those floor plates to me in a couple days, no cost. He repeatedly told me they would do what it took to make me happy. And I am thoroughly pleased with this gun. Overall rating in my book is a 8 out of 10.