Speer Gold Dat

[nguyen]

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I had my first FTF today with my cm9.
I shot 400 rounds through my kahr cm9 (all FMJ from freedommunitions), and I had no ftf/fte. It ran flawlessly... Then I started shooting speer gold dot jhp and the first round fired... second round ftf. I've attached a picture of what it looked like at the range. Should I polish my feed ramp or go for hornady defense 9mm which has that red filling to act like a FMJ? I'm not giving up on this gun.

[yqtszhj]

I would maybe try another round if yours doesnt like the speer. I have been using hornady critical duty and it works ok in my cm9. I use gold dot in my cm45 and cw45.

Welcome to the forum by the way.

[DavidR]

Generally people have not had trouble with Gold Dots in their CM9. It runs fine in mine. You might also try Federal HST.


Dave

[hardluk1]

Aaaa, could that be a limp wrist issue. Happens to even skilled marksman with small lite pistol with hotter ammo over light plinker loads. . The round failed to chamber and that can be a recoil control issue. Big difference in performance between the 2 rounds . Gold dots have always been my go to bullet for defense needs.

[Rubb]

Between my PM & CM I've shot probably 40 different brands including GD's without issue.

[SmokyT]

I haven't tried Speer GD with my PM9, but mine likes Federal 124gr HST (Std. pressure) and Cor-Bon 115gr DPX +P. It also likes Barnes 115gr XPD +P.

I polished the feed ramp of mine with wet/dry sandpaper from #800 up to #3000. It has been eating everything I fed so far. You probably want to polish yours as well to see if it makes any difference.

[muggsy]

I thought that I had made a mistake once, but I was wrong. I can't think of a single gun that I have ever owned that didn't experience at least one misfeed at some point in it's life. Some were due to the ammo, the gun, or plain old fashioned operator error. I believe that's why the tap rack drill was invented. Find a combinations that the gun likes and shoot that fokker like you stole it. :)

[kwh]

A lot of good rounds in 9mm. Federal HST has a better performance reputation in Short Barrel than standard Gold Dot. HST feeds fine in my CM9. Hornady has reputation of reliable feeding in KAHR short barrels.

[BucketBack]

Gold Dots feed well in my CM9 , I just don't like the performance of them in the short barrel. The GD's work fine in the CW9 with a longer barrel YMMV

[smokersteve]

WWB 115 grain jhp perform well in a short barrel and around $20/50

[smokersteve]

WWB 115 grain jhp perform well in a short barrel and around $20/50