K40 slide release VERY hard Help?

[Dueeast]

The slide release "releases" easily when closing with a live round in the mag, and closing with no mag. BUT, it is extremely hard to close with an empty mag. Is this normal? Also, I have a CM9 that I"m comparing it to. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Rob.

[Bawanna]

Completely normal. I think it's a clue that your trying to load nothing and better find some bullets.

They all are that way. The follower is trying to hold the slide lock up as designed while you are trying to push it down.

No mag or with bullets, it's not interfering with you.

Go forth and shoot some.

[wyntrout]

It's by design that the follower pushes up on the slide lock to hold the slide open on empty magazine... one of those little overlooked items in the manual(Note at top left of page 15) or FAQ at Kahr.com. The full power of the magazine's spring is pushing up on the slide lock when there's an EMPTY magazine fully inserted. Remove or lower the magazine and the slide lock is easily released.

"Q. Why is it difficult to close the slide on an empty magazine?

A. The slide release on the Kahr pistol has been designed to warn the shooter when the magazine is empty. When the slide is held open on an empty magazine, the slide release is very hard to depress. To easily release the slide, either remove the empty magazine or replace it with a loaded magazine. Depressing the slide release will then be much easier."

http://www.kahr.com/faq.asp

Manual.pdf:

http://www.kahr.com/PDF/kahrmanual.pdf

Wynn:)

[jocko]

in the propperprepping of ur kahr. #1 is to readthe manual and then againit says to reread the manual. Kahrs manual are very instructive. Might save alot of questions and frustreationsto.

what our two ultra wise guys above my post stated is gospel.

[Bawanna]

If everybody read the manual there wouldn't be much for conversation starters around here.

Rather talk about guns and cheerleaders, rather than most of the stuff we've chatted about around here recently.

More guns than cheerleaders when it comes right down to it.

Maybe we should renew the bevel (crunch tick) and the notch. (Here notch, here boy) thread as a little meander down memory lane.

[Dueeast]

Thanks. I did read then re-read the manual, but must have missed that. It makes sense, but all things equal, my CM9 is easier, thats why I thought I had a problem.

[wyntrout]

My new Glock 21 SF was impossible to release until I installed an extended slide release... big difference! That was with or without magazine! I had to pull the slide back to chamber a round until I got the extended release.

Wynn:)

[Dueeast]

I switched mags and the problem was over with. Pistol acts as it should now. Gotta think I had a bad relationship with the one mag follower and the slide stop. I'll order a new follower, and in the meantime I'll just shoot the one mag.

[Dueeast]

Put a new follower in and problem solved. 1. Slide release easy when mag is loaded. 2. Slide release hard when mag is empty. 3. Slide release VERY hard when something is wrong with the slide stop/follower relationship.

[voodoo54]

Yep, it's designed to be difficult to release without a round in the mag. Perfectly normal.

[muggsy]

If everybody read the manual there wouldn't be much for conversation starters around here.

Rather talk about guns and cheerleaders, rather than most of the stuff we've chatted about around here recently.

More guns than cheerleaders when it comes right down to it.

Maybe we should renew the bevel (crunch tick) and the notch. (Here notch, here boy) thread as a little meander down memory lane.

Reading the manual is anti-American. Don't you know that every red blooded American male has an innate sense of how to handle a gun and cut their teeth on the barrel of a Buntline Special. You got a lot of damn gall telling us to read the manual, Bawanna. What a ya some kind of communist? :)

[b4uqzme]

If everybody read the manual there wouldn't be much for conversation starters around here.

Rather talk about guns and cheerleaders, rather than most of the stuff we've chatted about around here recently.

More guns than cheerleaders when it comes right down to it.

Maybe we should renew the bevel (crunch tick) and the notch. (Here notch, here boy) thread as a little meander down memory lane.

Cheerleaders is good. Do they come with a manual?