Joe from Texas
03-31-2014, 12:58 PM
Hi All,
I'm new to kahrtalk.com as I just purchased my very first Kahr pistol. There was a lot of back and forth in my mind trying to decide if I should purchase a Kahr or not based on what I have read on the internet. The determining factor was that I was listening to Gun Talk and Tom G. said you can read it on the internet but what is your experience with it?
I figured lets bite the bullet and get one because ergonomics and the look is just great on the pistol. I ended up buying a P380 from Davidson's online and the transaction was smooth and fast. I went with the factory installed night sight version. I had no idea that they had changed the packaging because when I picked it up, it came in a nice hard box with 3 magazines, 2 6 round and 1 7 round. I saw on the website this is something new post SHOT show for the P series.
Before going to the range I cleaned the gun with CLP and lubed with Wilson Combat Universal, I added a crimson trace LG 433 and a talon grip and off I went. I brought along with me 200 rounds of PMC bronze FMJ ammo and crossed my fingers when I first pulled the trigger.
The gun functioned flawlessly through the first 200 rounds. There were 3 issues of what I would classify as user error. About 50 rounds in during use of the same 7 round magazine I had the gun lock back with rounds in the magazine. With the gun being so small I believe I was riding the slide stop pushing it up which caused the gun to lock open with rounds in the magazine.
The other failure I had was that the slide closed but no round was chambered. I had loaded the gun and dropped the mag to top it off. Fired the first round the slide closed and click with no boom. Turns out I didn't seat the magazine all the way.
Other than my screw ups the gun ran as well as any other gun I have. Its a real delight to shoot and i can't wait to go again next weekend.
http://s30.postimg.org/5q4v6fe19/photo.jpg (http://postimg.org/image/5q4v6fe19/)
I'm new to kahrtalk.com as I just purchased my very first Kahr pistol. There was a lot of back and forth in my mind trying to decide if I should purchase a Kahr or not based on what I have read on the internet. The determining factor was that I was listening to Gun Talk and Tom G. said you can read it on the internet but what is your experience with it?
I figured lets bite the bullet and get one because ergonomics and the look is just great on the pistol. I ended up buying a P380 from Davidson's online and the transaction was smooth and fast. I went with the factory installed night sight version. I had no idea that they had changed the packaging because when I picked it up, it came in a nice hard box with 3 magazines, 2 6 round and 1 7 round. I saw on the website this is something new post SHOT show for the P series.
Before going to the range I cleaned the gun with CLP and lubed with Wilson Combat Universal, I added a crimson trace LG 433 and a talon grip and off I went. I brought along with me 200 rounds of PMC bronze FMJ ammo and crossed my fingers when I first pulled the trigger.
The gun functioned flawlessly through the first 200 rounds. There were 3 issues of what I would classify as user error. About 50 rounds in during use of the same 7 round magazine I had the gun lock back with rounds in the magazine. With the gun being so small I believe I was riding the slide stop pushing it up which caused the gun to lock open with rounds in the magazine.
The other failure I had was that the slide closed but no round was chambered. I had loaded the gun and dropped the mag to top it off. Fired the first round the slide closed and click with no boom. Turns out I didn't seat the magazine all the way.
Other than my screw ups the gun ran as well as any other gun I have. Its a real delight to shoot and i can't wait to go again next weekend.
http://s30.postimg.org/5q4v6fe19/photo.jpg (http://postimg.org/image/5q4v6fe19/)