Completed CT380 Tungsten Break-In

[Preacher Dave]

I completed the break-in of my new CT380 Tungsten handgun this week. I am pretty "religious" about following the suggestions that can be found on this forum with my Kahrs. I polished the feed ramp and completed 500+ dry fire/hand cycles prior to ever going to the range. Over four range sessions I fired over five hundred rounds until I achieved 100% reliability on 100 rounds including 50 rounds of my carry ammo, .380 ACP is Fiocchi 90 grain XTPs. This is my fifth Kahr to go along with a K40 98 Elite, P40 Black Diamond, CM9, and CW380. The break-in of this CT380 matched the experience I had with my CW380 with increasing reliability as I progressed. One thing that I noticed with the tungsten CT380 is that for my old eyes, it is more difficult to see crud and know when it is clean than the bright stainless models.

[yqtszhj]

Good review.

I always thought the blued models cleaned easier now i find out the dirt just blends in. Guess I have to look a little harder now. :rolleyes:

I'm like you, I think the feed ramp is polished on every gun I have. And many times when it starts to tarnish I "clean" it with 1500 grit sand paper and gun oil. Theyre all mirror shiney. Many timesthe throat of the barrel is the same want.

[Bawanna]

Now days it seems Kahr does a much better job of polishing those feed ramps than they did in years past.

Still not a bad idea to clean them up from time to time.

Glad the break in went well for you Preacher Dave.

[wb4tjh]

My CT380 tungsten has the MagGuts inserts in both mags and the gun has been 100% reliable since the first shol. I love it.