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nikon
07-14-2012, 09:41 PM
Got an early birthday present yesterday from my wife and parents! (top one)

http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m284/nikon858/2012-07-13144327.jpg

It's a nice addition to my CM9 and P380, only thing I found weird is unlike my 9 and 380 instead of holding the sights at 6 oclock I have to bury the sights on the target.

Otherwise out of ~200 rounds I had one FTE which happened in the first 20-30 rounds. Then, after about 150 rounds through it the trigger stopped resetting unless I 'aggressively' let the trigger out (typically I slowly let it out) or I let the trigger out and gave the back of the gun a slight tap. I resorted to shooting single handed 'gangsta' style just for fun and it reset every time with out a hitch. Pretty sure I fixed this by a thorough cleaning.

My P380 wasn't locking back after the last round. Received a new slide stop lever from kahr which fixed it 50% of the time. Stretched the mag springs a bit and problem solved. 10% over powered mag springs from wolff are on order to permanently fix the problem.

Unfortunately I forgot to bring hollow points to the range to test through the 45, and my reduced power striker spring came in the mail as soon as I got back from the range today; so...no carrying it yet :( I'm still very happy with all my kahrs though!

TucsonMTB
07-15-2012, 12:17 AM
Lucky guy! Congratulations! http://home.mindspring.com/%7Ejustsomeguy/thumbsup.gif

jocko
07-15-2012, 06:25 AM
Got an early birthday present yesterday from my wife and parents! (top one)

http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m284/nikon858/2012-07-13144327.jpg

It's a nice addition to my CM9 and P380, only thing I found weird is unlike my 9 and 380 instead of holding the sights at 6 oclock I have to bury the sights on the target.

Otherwise out of ~200 rounds I had one FTE which happened in the first 20-30 rounds. Then, after about 150 rounds through it the trigger stopped resetting unless I 'aggressively' let the trigger out (typically I slowly let it out) or I let the trigger out and gave the back of the gun a slight tap. I resorted to shooting single handed 'gangsta' style just for fun and it reset every time with out a hitch. Pretty sure I fixed this by a thorough cleaning.

My P380 wasn't locking back after the last round. Received a new slide stop lever from kahr which fixed it 50% of the time. Stretched the mag springs a bit and problem solved. 10% over powered mag springs from wolff are on order to permanently fix the problem.

Unfortunately I forgot to bring hollow points to the range to test through the 45, and my reduced power striker spring came in the mail as soon as I got back from the range today; so...no carrying it yet :( I'm still very happy with all my kahrs though!

the 10% magspring is a super trick. I did that from the git go. I have the 5% sprignsin my other kahrs also, due to that wolffs doesn't make 10% or I would have themin there also.

More than likely I think also ur littleP380 wold have locked open ok after a few hudnred rounds to. Just take ssomet iemfor the recoil springs to take their designed set and it is allabout timing when u have a auto slide lock.

gobe
07-15-2012, 07:48 PM
Jocko,

Didn't know about the 5% mag springs. Just ordered them from Wolff's for my PM9 mags and my shootin' partner's PM40's mags. All these little gems keep poppin' up!

nikon
07-16-2012, 02:00 PM
Got the p380 mag springs in today...problem solved!

Bill K
07-16-2012, 02:16 PM
Got the p380 mag springs in today...problem solved!

Good job trouble shooting.

nikon
07-16-2012, 04:17 PM
^^ All thanks to this forum!