Brought an S9 into the family

[dao]

Picked up an S9 today. Nice little gun. Racked the slide a few hundred times and locked it back. Probably get it to the range next week.

[yqtszhj]

Nice. pics? I can’t buy anything till after the first of the year so how about showing us yours?

[MMyers1970]

Are you going to utilize the rail? The only thing I've ever mounted to my carry pistol is a laser, but a Kahr with a light would be something else.

[dao]

This will be for a family member ultimately, when the time is right. He's just learning how to shoot pistol. It's bone stock and I will not use the rail right away. Long term it will be his decision. The rail blends with the gun very nicely, does not "stick out" as it as it appears to me on some other pistols out there. Not sure how Kahr managed that, but it looks like it is part and parcel of the gun's design. I've owned Kahrs for many years and expected it to look strange. Not the case.

Trigger is not smooth, yet. That IS very strange to me. Did not anticipate that. Not gritty exactly, but can feel what seems to be like spring expanding across something not very slick. Hopefully it will smooth out and end up as buttery as it is on all other Kahrs I've had my hands on, but one. Now that I think of it I have P40 that was like this and I ended up having to smooth out a short rough spot on the trigger bar. I'll have to take a look at that.

[MMyers1970]

This will be for a family member ultimately, when the time is right. He's just learning how to shoot pistol. It's bone stock and I will not use the rail right away. Long term it will be his decision. The rail blends with the gun very nicely, does not "stick out" as it as it appears to me on some other pistols out there. Not sure how Kahr managed that, but it looks like it is part and parcel of the gun's design. I've owned Kahrs for many years and expected it to look strange. Not the case.

Trigger is not smooth, yet. That IS very strange to me. Did not anticipate that. Not gritty exactly, but can feel what seems to be like spring expanding across something not very slick. Hopefully it will smooth out and end up as buttery as it is on all other Kahrs I've had my hands on, but one. Now that I think of it I have P40 that was like this and I ended up having to smooth out a short rough spot on the trigger bar. I'll have to take a look at that.

I had a squeak in my CM9 trigger. Thanks to help from this forum, I did the "Kahr trigger job" and fixed my problem with sandpaper and a Dremel.

[dao]

I'll pull the slide plate off mine in a day or two. Last time it was a manufacturing irregularity on the bottom of the trigger bar that created a hump that I had to smooth out. Easy task and that trigger is now the typical Kahr buttery smooth.
I like the Handall grips a lot.

[dao]

Took the side plate off today and smoothed out the trigger bar using a combination of very fine sandpaper followed by a buffing pad on my dremel. Buttery smooth now as a Kahr should be. Back in the day Kahr sold their "Elite trigger" as an upgrade with the Elite line, then did away with it and made all their triggers essentially the same. But given this is the second one that I've had to smooth out I'm not sure that each trigger bar gets the same attention to detail.
I've owned 10 Kahrs over the years, all in the P and MK line, with the exception of one CM 9 that I have since sold. I can't recall for sure if it was the CM or my P40 that I still have that needed the same refinement. All of the others have been as good as the "elite triggers" on my oldest Ps and MKs.