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aray
02-18-2011, 03:18 PM
Does the magazine spring have a preferred orientation (either up/down or forward backwards)?

Reason I ask is that as I have been cleaning my CW9 and its magazines, I initially tried to be very careful & keep all of the springs in the magazine placed in the same orientation they were in when I originally bought the gun (used). Alas eventually they got bumped off of the table one day and now I can’t recall how they all faced. (I used to have two 7 rounders and one extended 8 rounder – I just bought a third 7 rounder – see below.)

I put them in the way it “felt right” and moved on. However on one of my magazines I was having trouble getting the final bullet to fit into the mag without excessive force. (This was before I bought my Uplula.) I flipped it around and it seemed to work better. In another incident I had a FTF and blamed the magazine spring orientation, but now I’m thinking perhaps it was the problem described by Wynn here: http://kahrtalk.com/showpost.php?p=51662&postcount=7 (http://kahrtalk.com/showpost.php?p=51662&postcount=7) Although he was discussing the PM, I’m wondering if a similar problem didn’t affect my CW as well?

I hopped online hoping the manual would show the spring orientation, which it did here: http://www.kahr.com/PDF/kahrmanual.pdf (http://www.kahr.com/PDF/kahrmanual.pdf) It shows the “open” part of the spring forward. Dunno if that is critical (like it is on the recoil spring) or not, but regardless I viewed that as a Kahr Official Position and once again moved on.

Last weekend, I bought a new Kahr magazine from a gun show. (I wanted a third 7 round mag as I’d like to get into IDPA this summer & was told I needed 3 magazines of identical capacity.) When I opened up the magazine, darned if the “open end” of the spring wasn’t facing backwards!

So I’m totally confused now. I’m also wondering if there is a discernable top or bottom too, but first I’d like to know which side needs to face forward, or whether or not it even matters.

Thoughts? Thanks.

jocko
02-18-2011, 03:30 PM
Not sure up or down makes any difference but I can assure you front vs back will make a differenct. One can just look at the bototm of the follower and visualize how that sprig should look when place in the follower. It will wkant to pusht e front of the follower up...

One bettercheck all magazines when he buys um, for like Kahr, they don't make their magazines, so not sure of they already come to kahr assembled etc or whether kahr inserts the mag spring and follower etc, but either way don't trust it to be right. I think one should dissamble his new mags anhows to make sure they are cleaned, no burrs on the follower etc and oh yes correctly installed...

tconroy
02-18-2011, 05:57 PM
I just bought a new magazine and all it well. I will go shoot it tomorrow and see if it passes the EDC test and then I will have a spare to carry.