1st impression of CM9 was not good!

[cdjohnson]

This is my 1st Kahr, i am a Sig fan and owner. If Sig has made it i own it. You can say whatever you want about me! I like nice quality items.

However, i bought the CM9 for my wife to carry. I don't want her carrying a single action so i was looking for a DAO with a longer trigger. I currently have Shield 40, Sig P224, P938, P238, XDS, Mod 2 and a few other carry guns. The shield's grip was a little long for her so it imprinted when she carried it. So i did some reviews on the CM9 and decided to purchase one. Picked it up and put Talon grips on it. I got off work early today and went to the range.

So the first shot went bang but FTE! I thought to myself i guess that i could have gotten a bad batch. (Yes i know its was the 1st round, but you only get one shot for 1st impressions). Cleared it and keep on shooting. 300 rounds later went through the break in and some. Let me tell you I don't know the longevity of Kahr's but i think that i might have to tell my wife that this gun is terrible and keep it for myself! As of right now, all of my other carry guns will remain in the safe and i have moved to the CM9 as my EDC.

The trigger is amazing, the bar sights was easier than i thought they would to acquire the target (better than traditional sights), minimum recoil, and doing double taps @ 10 yards. My grouping was in the 5 ring. Matter of fact 299 rounds were in the 5 ring. Yes that means that i through one. So i said to myself "don't worry about that little guy"!

If you are on the fence about buying one, get it. this gun is amazing so far. The only issue that i have is reassembling it after the cleaning. it was a pain. i could not get the slide to rack back for me to put in the pin. I will post something around 1000-1500 rounds.

Chris

[livefreeordie1]

Love my CM9 as well, but I wouldn't want my wife to carry one. The small Kahrs need a very rigid grip, since she's a small woman I'd be afraid she'd limp wrist it at the most inopportune time. She carries a 642 J frame, better for her I think.

[b4uqzme]

So the second impression was good? :) Welcome!

[Bawanna]

Wow, I walked into this one face first. Expected a horrible report. You make a great lead off. This was good and more normal than we usually read about.

In all fairness maybe you should get another one for your wife.

[yqtszhj]

If your wife can rack the slide get her one. As a matter of fact if she cant get her one too and let her practice. My cm9 NEVER malfunctions even if I try to limp wrist it to cause a malfunction.

[OldFatGuy]

The slide and pin were a problem for me too. The key is technique. Check some YouTube vids. I've got it down now, piece of cake.

[DavidR]

Great report!


Dave

[cdjohnson]

thanks dave

[cdjohnson]

I bought it from grab a gun for $329 i think, can't remember. So far i am glad i picked it up. My wife and I really enjoy shooting. I think that is one of the reasons why we have been married for 15 years and we are only 35. And yes i let her win sometimes lol. I hope she doesn't read this forum, i will be out of a CM9 and i'll be sleeping on the couch if she knew that i let her win.

[OldFatGuy]

Nothing wrong with 2 CM9's in the family.

[Baklash]

CD, you got me good!:o

[deadeye]

I guess I must have gotten a bad one. I've been able to slingshot it and limp wrist it from the beginning. Did find out if you over oil the extractor the brass bounces off your forehead. Guess who's fault that was? :mad: It's kind of rough not having anything to gripe about!!

[kenemoore]

It's nice for your ego to say
"I let her win", :o

Some of the best shooters I know are female, I think it's because they never picked up all the bad habits from dad, uncle, brother etc... They were taught correct technique straight away, and now watch out.

[Bawanna]

I've often thought it was because they have nothing to prove. If they suck, they just say I'm just a girl.

Guys especially first timers feel they have to shoot well or they are somehow unmanly. Puts a lot of pressure on a guy.

But no bad habits and decent advise from the get go is a big plus too.

[b4uqzme]

... It's kind of rough not having anything to gripe about!!

Yeah, I feel kinda left out too. :rolleyes:

[cdjohnson]

I totally agree with everyone about female shooters. We use the battleship targets for challenges. Thats what we do for fun. At first i would let it be close, then she better so i would let her win to keep the interest. Then she really good and now i really have to try to defeat her. She is so good that she can hit a dime size area on the target @12-15 yards. WOW thats really good. I don't care who you are. So when i said that i let her win, that is really a lie, i try to not to get embarrassed by her when we go to range. So great job wife

[b4uqzme]

I totally agree with everyone about female shooters. We use the battleship targets for challenges. Thats what we do for fun. At first i would let it be close, then she better so i would let her win to keep the interest. Then she really good and now i really have to try to defeat her. She is so good that she can hit a dime size area on the target @12-15 yards. WOW thats really good. I don't care who you are. So when i said that i let her win, that is really a lie, i try to not to get embarrassed by her when we go to range. So great job wife

Now you're just braggin'. Good job both of you! :D

[JMag]

Love my CM9. Great pistol.

[OvalNut]

I have the PM9 version PM9193. It runs like a Swiss clock and is as accurate as I will ever be.

I get the tricky reassembly initially. Been there. And though, after over 1,000+ rounds that is now very fluid/easy while the gun is still very tight in function.


Tim

[muggsy]

C.D., I have exactly the same problem with my CM9. I'd like to sell it and get something better, but how can I when there isn't a better carry gun out there? I guess that I'll just have to suffer along with the rest of the CM9 owners. It's a plight that all CM9 owners suffer from.

[AnthonyC]

Now you can get them with nightsights and an extra mag. I would grab that second CM9 now.

[CJB]

gettin in late here....

I originally got a PM9 to have something smaller for my pocket, when the pocket was smaller or the breeks shorter and thus making the pocketable PM45 a bit obtrusive.

Well it was the GREAT PM9J model, with the blunt nose, named after our very own Jocko (dunno what his nose looks like, but I think they sorta named the J after him cuz if you look at the letter J <---- it looks like his nose).

But I digress. It got stolen by Carmine V Williamson (who fled to New Jersey, robbed some places, was indicted, came back to Florida, and was nabbed last month). His mug and stuff below

https://www.usinq.com/records/1ed78a5

To replace that pistol, which he probably put on the street in exchange for some dope, I wanted another J nose but they aint made no more. Without hesitation, I got a PM9, but would have gotten a CM9 and been equally happy. I just got the PM because it was a bit more dear to me. Neither the first I got, nor this one has given me a lick o trouble, and should something happen, I'd get another in jig time.

[cdjohnson]

Muggsy, I started to depress the barrel at the ejection port to assist with racking the slide back. When putting the slide on the frame and trying to pull the slide back to insert the pin, the barrel fails to disengage with the slide. So that is what I was talking about depressing the barrel. So far that seems to work. I'll see the next few times I break down to clean it

[cdjohnson]

Wow, so that guy stole your Kahr and conducted those criminal activities. That's crazy. This is my first kahr and so far I'm impressed with it. I'm heading to the range this morning and shot it a little more

[CJB]

Every so often Buds has 'em as low as $289 and Palmetto State Armory does the same now and again... should someone want one, be worth looking at those.

[CJB]

Wow, so that guy stole your Kahr and conducted those criminal activities. That's crazy. This is my first kahr and so far I'm impressed with it. I'm heading to the range this morning and shot it a little more

Carmen V Williamson was living with my GF as a boarder. He stole a watch, and two pistols from me, and about $2000 from her in cash money. He blamed an unattended friend of his....and offered to make restitution on account of that "now ex-friend" because he didn't want trouble with NJ cops for back child support. I smelled BS but wanted restitution so I have him a chance. Good Lord, the idiot paid me in money stolen from the GF. I know this, as she wrote a few names and phone numbers of clients on the bills. That's when I knew his time was done. Got ugly, and got uglier. He split to NJ. Promply did a few bad things in NJ, robbed the wrong guy, stole about $24,000 in stuff, and hot indicted. Fled to Florida - same county like a doofus. I got ugly with him in September, he got indicted in December, he finally got nailed in May. The pistols were recorded with serial numbers, some day I may see them again, but I aint counting on it! My friend L. hot his stainless 357 Ruger Security Six back after five or six years. Used in crime, after evidence was done, it went back to him.