Bang_button
12-05-2013, 11:17 PM
First of all, thank you to all the great folks on Kahrtalk for the excellent advice. Special thanks go out to Jocko, for his prepping thread. I followed it to a T.
One thing, the CM9 isn't a Glock, of which I own three (17, 26 and 30s), but I knew that before purchasing it. I confess a bit of real trepidation with the tightness of the gun. So I went about researching everything I could before it was in my hands.
One negative for me is the stinking oil that Kahr uses on the gun. Simply awful. The stench got on my hands, but Brakleen rescued me from that foul stuff. I thoroughly cleaned it per Jocko's suggestions, and once I got the slide stop pin out, put some "No. 7 Heavy Duty Rubbing Compound" which is used to clean and restore dull car finishes (not too coarse in spite of the name) on the rails of the slide and the frame and proceeded to rack the slide back and forth probably 100 times. Hit that with Brakleen and cleaned it all out, and then oiled the critical points of the gun per the instructions in the thread for that.
The magazine had that foul odor too, so Brakleen was employed to get rid of the oil, some of it congealed, that was on and in the mag. The mag spring was in backwards, so corrected that and put everything back together.
Then I think I probably racked the slide 400 times. That's really a chore, in case you didn't know. I also loaded up some Remington UMC 115 grain hollow points and cycled them through the mag first, and then loaded them back up and cycled them through the gun. I was able to do it, probably because of the vigorous racking motion used. Repeated. They all cycled fine.
Then off to the range.
Due to my large hands, this gun isn't exactly a pleasant one to shoot two handed, but I did alright. Took some adjustments, but by the time I got to my last 10 rounds, I had figured out how to aim this gun. I shot at 21 feet. The small silhouette target (No 6). Those last 10 shots I shot slowfire, at the head of the target, which is probably an inch narrower than my fist. Every shot hit that, and the overall group was probably around 3 inches. I'm happy, especially considering getting a good sharp sight picture isn't possible for me due to my age and the distance from my eyes to the front sight when I'm wearing normal glasses for distance. As this isn't a target gun, I didn't try to do this with lenses that would give me a really clear front sight, and I wanted to approximate what might happen in a self defense situation.
I forgot to mention that I had no FTFs or anything like that, and I did slingshot the slide several times and it always worked for me.
This gun, when I shoot it two handed, is something of a punisher, at least over time. The bottom tip of the trigger can be painful, and a knuckle or two took a beating. Onehanded the gun is not too painful to shoot.
I confess to liking my Glock 26 way more, but this gun is much smaller, will handle all the same loads, and is much more easily concealed, which is the real reason I bought it -- for those times when my G26 or G30s (45ACP) are not doable for me.
Shot it at 50 feet too, and that will take some more work. Suffice it to say I hit the overall paper target only 5 out of 7 times, not good enough in my book. But I'll get there.
I haven't modified the gun in any way, with the exception of drilling out the white dot in the front sight and filling it in with Glow Inc.'s Gun Sight Formula (UGGUN) glow in the dark paint. This stuff's good. Light it up with a bright flashlight and if it was applied correctly (1/8" thick) it is visible to eyes that are accustomed to the dark for 5 or 6 hours easily. It almost works like a big dot XSSight.
Tomorrow I'm headed back to the range to put another 100 or 150 rounds through it. If it's anything like it was today, I"ll be very pleased.
Thanks for reading!
One thing, the CM9 isn't a Glock, of which I own three (17, 26 and 30s), but I knew that before purchasing it. I confess a bit of real trepidation with the tightness of the gun. So I went about researching everything I could before it was in my hands.
One negative for me is the stinking oil that Kahr uses on the gun. Simply awful. The stench got on my hands, but Brakleen rescued me from that foul stuff. I thoroughly cleaned it per Jocko's suggestions, and once I got the slide stop pin out, put some "No. 7 Heavy Duty Rubbing Compound" which is used to clean and restore dull car finishes (not too coarse in spite of the name) on the rails of the slide and the frame and proceeded to rack the slide back and forth probably 100 times. Hit that with Brakleen and cleaned it all out, and then oiled the critical points of the gun per the instructions in the thread for that.
The magazine had that foul odor too, so Brakleen was employed to get rid of the oil, some of it congealed, that was on and in the mag. The mag spring was in backwards, so corrected that and put everything back together.
Then I think I probably racked the slide 400 times. That's really a chore, in case you didn't know. I also loaded up some Remington UMC 115 grain hollow points and cycled them through the mag first, and then loaded them back up and cycled them through the gun. I was able to do it, probably because of the vigorous racking motion used. Repeated. They all cycled fine.
Then off to the range.
Due to my large hands, this gun isn't exactly a pleasant one to shoot two handed, but I did alright. Took some adjustments, but by the time I got to my last 10 rounds, I had figured out how to aim this gun. I shot at 21 feet. The small silhouette target (No 6). Those last 10 shots I shot slowfire, at the head of the target, which is probably an inch narrower than my fist. Every shot hit that, and the overall group was probably around 3 inches. I'm happy, especially considering getting a good sharp sight picture isn't possible for me due to my age and the distance from my eyes to the front sight when I'm wearing normal glasses for distance. As this isn't a target gun, I didn't try to do this with lenses that would give me a really clear front sight, and I wanted to approximate what might happen in a self defense situation.
I forgot to mention that I had no FTFs or anything like that, and I did slingshot the slide several times and it always worked for me.
This gun, when I shoot it two handed, is something of a punisher, at least over time. The bottom tip of the trigger can be painful, and a knuckle or two took a beating. Onehanded the gun is not too painful to shoot.
I confess to liking my Glock 26 way more, but this gun is much smaller, will handle all the same loads, and is much more easily concealed, which is the real reason I bought it -- for those times when my G26 or G30s (45ACP) are not doable for me.
Shot it at 50 feet too, and that will take some more work. Suffice it to say I hit the overall paper target only 5 out of 7 times, not good enough in my book. But I'll get there.
I haven't modified the gun in any way, with the exception of drilling out the white dot in the front sight and filling it in with Glow Inc.'s Gun Sight Formula (UGGUN) glow in the dark paint. This stuff's good. Light it up with a bright flashlight and if it was applied correctly (1/8" thick) it is visible to eyes that are accustomed to the dark for 5 or 6 hours easily. It almost works like a big dot XSSight.
Tomorrow I'm headed back to the range to put another 100 or 150 rounds through it. If it's anything like it was today, I"ll be very pleased.
Thanks for reading!