SHOT 2013: Kahr Arms CW380

[Barth]

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Specifications and Features Caliber: .380 ACP
Capacity: 6+1 Barrel: 2.58″, Conventional Rifling, 1 – 16 right-hand twist
Length: 4.96″
Height: 3.9″
Slide Width:.75″
Weight: Pistol 10.2 ounces (w/o magazine)
Grips: Textured polymer
Sights: Drift adjustable white bar-dot combat rear sight, pinned in polymer front sight
Finish: Black polymer frame, matte stainless steel slide.

[jocko]

I predicted they would never make a cw380.. that is a big score and as usual I was wrong

I wonder wy they calledit a cw instead of the cm???:eek:

[ultramag]

So, I'm new to Kahrs and just bought a PM9 for CCW and have a P380 on the very short list of guns I'm interested in buying soon as well. Could someone please take a moment to explain why this is good news compared to the P380?

[MikeyKahr]

Price. More money in your wallet.

[smitzzz24]

Anyone heard about the release date? Will the night sights, mags and accessories for the p380 fit this?

[cloud]

Anyone heard about the release date? Will the night sights, mags and accessories for the p380 fit this?

Don't know the release date but I put my order in for one with my lgs .

[jocko]

So, I'm new to Kahrs and just bought a PM9 for CCW and have a P380 on the very short list of guns I'm interested in buying soon as well. Could someone please take a moment to explain why this is good news compared to the P380?

the price. would venture to say $200 less.

[Barth]

the price. would venture to say $200 less.

Kahr proudly makes their handguns in the U.S.A. and lists the CW380 at $419.
And that's a high MSRP.

P380 = MSRP: $649.00

[downtownv]

Great! Now I can hook it up like this for my wife!

[Bawanna]

Cute boulder holder, I used to have one just like that....................er somebody I knew had one just like that I meant to say..................

[Armybrat]

I predicted they would never make a cw380.. that is a big score and as usual I was wrong

I wonder wy they calledit a cw instead of the cm???:eek:

Maybe they're gonna make a smaller one?

Now if this CW380 doesn't have all the problems its daddy had, then I want one to replace my Ruger LCP.

[jocko]

I think mostof the bugs have left the building in the kahr 380.I would buy the cw380 over theP380 due toprice. I ain't out to impress anyone, ifit goes bang like it should then it will do what the P380 would do also.. that gun will be in the $300+ range once it gets some legs..

[Pier23]

So, I'm new to Kahrs and just bought a PM9 for CCW and have a P380 on the very short list of guns I'm interested in buying soon as well. Could someone please take a moment to explain why this is good news compared to the P380?
Color me confused also...my P380 is polymer frame also...why would one be cheaper than the other?

[Pier23]

I think mostof the bugs have left the building in the kahr 380.I would buy the cw380 over theP380 due toprice. I ain't out to impress anyone, ifit goes bang like it should then it will do what the P380 would do also.. that gun will be in the $300+ range once it gets some legs..

I DID get irked with MY P380...took 600 rounds before that puppy fed properly.

Kahr DID send a new recoil spring when I sd I had an issue after 300 rounds or so, and I am very happy with it now, but it took some time for everything to settle in.

[addictedhealer]

Color me confused also...my P380 is polymer frame also...why would one be cheaper than the other?

Does not come with the cute slide and the laser etched lettering. Cw also does not come with dove tailed front sight and the polygonal barrel. Also short a magazine. Get it now?

[Pier23]

Does not come with the cute slide and the laser etched lettering. Cw also does not come with dove tailed front sight and the polygonal barrel. Also short a magazine. Get it now?

Thanks, that helps...still trying to sort out all the Kahr flavors. Only took me three months to get a handle on Glocks....

[Chogers]

Its already listed on Kahr's website. http://www.kahr.com/Pistols/Kahr-CW380.asp

[muggsy]

I predicted they would never make a cw380.. that is a big score and as usual I was wrong

I wonder wy they calledit a cw instead of the cm???:eek:

I bought a P380 on your prediction, Jocko. I think your crystal ball is broken. The groundhog makes better predictions. If I didn't like my P380 so much I'd send ya a bill for $200. The nerve of some people's children. :)

[Bill K]

Hmm... I wonder what other guns jocko has predicted Kahr would never make? :)

[MikeyKahr]

You know, Bill K, he has said the same about the K45. Maybe I should sign up now on my LGS hold list?

[Bawanna]

You know, Bill K, he has said the same about the K45. Maybe I should sign up now on my LGS hold list?

I was just gonna say that same thing. I know Jocko abhores anything with real bullets. The K45 is probably already on the drawing board.

Now we can start working on the T45. I'll have Jocko make a negative prediction on that as well. We could be onto something really good here.

[addictedhealer]

I know this is ridiculous but I would love a double stack k9 :)

[jocko]

I know this is ridiculous but I would love a double stack k9 :)

talkin good sense. Just sayin

[jocko]

I was just gonna say that same thing. I know Jocko abhores anything with real bullets. The K45 is probably already on the drawing board.

Now we can start working on the T45. I'll have Jocko make a negative prediction on that as well. We could be onto something really good here.

gonna happen. to mucy expense in making such a poor caliber. Keep um with the 1911's. they seem to do well there. It is not thatI adhore "real bullets".Its just at my age I don'thave alot of time for a 45 round to get to its target. I was told today that in good daylight u can actualy see the arc of a 45 in flight. Wow aint that a crank bender if I ever heard of one..Nuttin wrong with a T45, it will be like the T9 about a 100 or less a year made andsold, speaks highly of those wanting a T9, IMO. Stick with what sells and that is 9's all day long.

Its on the drawin board but so is a McDonals triple burger to. doiesnt mean we will ever eat it though

Kahr needs to make the cm9 in a desert tan finihs with a camo slide and ther cw series also...

[Bawanna]

When your throwing tiny little boolits it's important to have a lot of them.

[jocko]

Hmm... I wonder what other guns jocko has predicted Kahr would never make? :)

T and K 45's. u can take that to the bank:D:typing:I think u have seen the last of the all steel kahrs in a different caliber. Polymer rules. look at all the new gu makers new intro, basically utter than a zillion different makers of the 1911's which are all steel,they all bring out poly guns

soe one metioned double stack 9's. a very good possablity. a double stack PM9 or cm9 would be still very small and maybe still pocketable but now at 10 rounds instead of 6. It is duable IMO.

[phil413tx]

Does anyone have any idea how many K9s or K40s they sell in a year? I am still dreaming if that K45...

[addictedhealer]

DOUBLE STACK K9 damnn it!!

[Bawanna]

DOUBLE STACK K9 damnn it!!

Whoa, whoa there big fella, we're kind of sensitive to that profanity and we got women folks and Mikey around here too.

Why can't we all get along? You get your double stack K9, I get my K45 and jocko can have a camoflouged, how the hell to ya spell camoflaged? with a dark earth tactical slide with lanyard loop so when he forgets where he puts his gun it's dragging on the ground behind him. And of course port the fokker!:eek:

Now see what cha done, you got me talking like a longshoreman or Jocko, not for positive sure which.

[Chogers]

:behindsofa: Doesn't Kahr pride themselves on their single stacks? You guys honestly think they will do a double stack pistol?

[addictedhealer]

Whoa, whoa there big fella, we're kind of sensitive to that profanity and we got women folks and Mikey around here too.

Why can't we all get along? You get your double stack K9, I get my K45 and jocko can have a camoflouged, how the hell to ya spell camoflaged? with a dark earth tactical slide with lanyard loop so when he forgets where he puts his gun it's dragging on the ground behind him. And of course port the fokker!:eek:

Now see what cha done, you got me talking like a longshoreman or Jocko, not for positive sure which.

Camouflage, say it with me now. C A M O U F L A G E- camouflage. :D

[MikeyKahr]

:behindsofa: Doesn't Kahr pride themselves on their single stacks? You guys honestly think they will do a double stack pistol?

They'd probably have to change the "Thin is in" slogan and start putting guys like me on the cover instead of the eye candy. Please Kahr don't go there. For the sake of the human race.

[Armybrat]

They'd probably have to change the "Thin is in" slogan and start putting guys like me on the cover instead of the eye candy. Please Kahr don't go there. For the sake of the human race.

Yeah, and they'd have to use Rosanne Barr as the model holding the pistol.

[TheTman]

I was hoping to see the CM45, Kahr emailed me that it would be introduced at the SHOT show, and be available in late spring to early summer. I would have suggested they get the P380 running better before they introduced a cheaper version of it.

[wyntrout]

Kahr was started to develop and market a compact 9mm pistol... because there weren't any good ones out there for real concealed carry. They have never tried to compete with the large existing gaggle of manufacturers making large, large-capacity, pistols. They need to stay focused on what they do best and improve on the ones that they make.

If you haven't noticed, the OTHER companies started trying to compete with Kahr in making compact CCW pistols! I think that Kahr has its hands full just trying to please the crowd clamoring for cheaper models of existing Kahrs!

Wynn:)

[Chogers]

+1000 ^^^^ Thanks Wynn!!! ;)

[tv_racin_fan]

I know this is ridiculous but I would love a double stack k9 :)

What exactly is ridiculous bout such an animal?

[Pier23]

Kahr needs to make the cm9 in a desert tan finihs with a camo slide and ther cw series also...

And a Zombie-specific model....

It is interesting that with the CW380 Kahr seems to be chasing the KelTec .380 market...I have the P380 -took forever to get that to feed reliably, btw - AND the KelTec .380... Both great pieces for their intended roles.