Michael W.
06-11-2010, 04:15 PM
As some of you may remember my first outing with my P380
last week was somewhat disappointing to me due to the
couple of failures I got in the first 100 rounds.
The handful of failures in and of itself is probably right in the
realm of the status quo for the 200rd break in but I guess I'd
gotten spoiled by my PM9, PM45 and CW40 in how they functioned
near flawlessly right out of the box.
Plus I was disappointed to not have brought enough ammo to complete
the break in process. I even went out to check if the range counter
had any 380......yep they sure did........$24.......per 25!!!
So needless to say, I quit.
After getting home I ordered some S&B ball ammo from A1 Ammo at a
reasonable price and it was sitting on my doorstep when I got home from my
trip to NY yesterday afternoon.
So today, I decided to take the little P380 for the rest of the break in session.
But first I decided to give the feed ramp and throat a little extra polish with
a slow dremel and bullet felt tip with some metal polish. Then I buffed
up the stripper a tad and for good measure hit the extractor and breach face
with the dremel as well. I also decided to run it a little "wetter" today with a
few extra drops of FP-10 in the right places.
I shot 200 rds of S&B today and I'm happy to report it was a fabulous
session. I did have a few failures but they were all shooter induced
and mainly were of the "nudged the slide stop" variety. But she fed
and ejected like a champ today. At 100rds I ran a bore snake through
it and put a few drops of remoil on the slide rails before continuing
the session . I am extremely pleased at how well this little 380 shoots.
Ergonomically leaves everything in it's class (ie, LCP, P3AT, etc) in the dust.
So with a tad over 300 rds through her I think she's ready to join her
siblings already doing duty in the carry arsenal. Between my Glock26, PM45,
PM9 and P380 I think I've got just about every CCW scenario I can think of
covered. Since getting into these Kahrs I am more in the position of "always
carrying" than I've ever been before.
Here's an updated family portrait....
http://www.fototime.com/57C671D4AFD5374/orig.jpg
http://www.fototime.com/8CDE790849831A3/orig.jpg
http://www.fototime.com/23208D3E2DE0352/orig.jpg
http://www.fototime.com/802836987138810/orig.jpg
http://www.fototime.com/797CC04E41D2BE9/orig.jpg
Locked and loaded with my carry load, the Hornady Critical Defense .380
http://www.fototime.com/27770E27CEA9407/orig.jpg
The more astute of you may notice that I did not include the CW40
in these portraits. That's because it's going on the block in order
to partially fund this P380. As much as I love the CW40 it overlaps
the PM45 and PM9.
Michael-
last week was somewhat disappointing to me due to the
couple of failures I got in the first 100 rounds.
The handful of failures in and of itself is probably right in the
realm of the status quo for the 200rd break in but I guess I'd
gotten spoiled by my PM9, PM45 and CW40 in how they functioned
near flawlessly right out of the box.
Plus I was disappointed to not have brought enough ammo to complete
the break in process. I even went out to check if the range counter
had any 380......yep they sure did........$24.......per 25!!!
So needless to say, I quit.
After getting home I ordered some S&B ball ammo from A1 Ammo at a
reasonable price and it was sitting on my doorstep when I got home from my
trip to NY yesterday afternoon.
So today, I decided to take the little P380 for the rest of the break in session.
But first I decided to give the feed ramp and throat a little extra polish with
a slow dremel and bullet felt tip with some metal polish. Then I buffed
up the stripper a tad and for good measure hit the extractor and breach face
with the dremel as well. I also decided to run it a little "wetter" today with a
few extra drops of FP-10 in the right places.
I shot 200 rds of S&B today and I'm happy to report it was a fabulous
session. I did have a few failures but they were all shooter induced
and mainly were of the "nudged the slide stop" variety. But she fed
and ejected like a champ today. At 100rds I ran a bore snake through
it and put a few drops of remoil on the slide rails before continuing
the session . I am extremely pleased at how well this little 380 shoots.
Ergonomically leaves everything in it's class (ie, LCP, P3AT, etc) in the dust.
So with a tad over 300 rds through her I think she's ready to join her
siblings already doing duty in the carry arsenal. Between my Glock26, PM45,
PM9 and P380 I think I've got just about every CCW scenario I can think of
covered. Since getting into these Kahrs I am more in the position of "always
carrying" than I've ever been before.
Here's an updated family portrait....
http://www.fototime.com/57C671D4AFD5374/orig.jpg
http://www.fototime.com/8CDE790849831A3/orig.jpg
http://www.fototime.com/23208D3E2DE0352/orig.jpg
http://www.fototime.com/802836987138810/orig.jpg
http://www.fototime.com/797CC04E41D2BE9/orig.jpg
Locked and loaded with my carry load, the Hornady Critical Defense .380
http://www.fototime.com/27770E27CEA9407/orig.jpg
The more astute of you may notice that I did not include the CW40
in these portraits. That's because it's going on the block in order
to partially fund this P380. As much as I love the CW40 it overlaps
the PM45 and PM9.
Michael-