I still have 2......

[jreXD9]

......Kahrs, that is. The CW9 and PM9 are still in the stable, but alas, the CW45 sold in one day and the next day I replaced it with a Kimber Compact Stainless II with the commander length slide and the short officer's grip. I had nothing against the CW. It was time for something else and I've heard that every man needs at least one 1911. I now have mine. Doghouse, here I come.

[Bawanna]

I'll tidy up a bit and make some room for ya. You get the top bunk. I'm scared of ladders thanks to Old Lincoln.

Happy new 1911 to you!

[O'Dell]

I traded a CW45 1 1/2 years ago for a PM45. The CW ran fine, I just wanted something easier to carry. Unfortunately, the PM45 departed in February with 8 other guns, but thanks to the KahrTalk members, I have a PM9 on the way.

Your new Kimber sounds similar to my SIG C3 - Commander length SS slide, 4.25 barrel, and Officers grip. Good luck with your new 1911.

[DKD]

Good for you O'Dell, I am glad to see that you are on the road to recovery.
Hope your new PM9 is as good a weapon as mine has been for me.
Happy trails my freind.

[mr surveyor]

......Kahrs, that is. The CW9 and PM9 are still in the stable, but alas, the CW45 sold in one day and the next day I replaced it with a Kimber Compact Stainless II with the commander length slide and the short officer's grip. I had nothing against the CW. It was time for something else and I've heard that every man needs at least one 1911. I now have mine. Doghouse, here I come.


You should love the Compact Stainless. I have a '97-'98 model Kimber Compact Stainless that is my all time favorite. It's the most accurate, comfortable shooting handgun I've ever owned. Mine had been previously owned by a leo that really took good care of it, although he did have some trigger work done...it breaks at about 2.5 pounds with about 1/4 inch total travel. Although I don't know exactly how old they are but the old tritium sights still have a bit of glow even though the half life (effective usefulness) of tritium in about 12 years. Since I carry a da/sa revolver "in the field" during the work days, I have gravitated to the da trigger for semi auto to keep the manual of arms as close as possible for my carry guns so the CW9 has come front and center in the last couple of years. But, if there's just the slightest hint of a coming SHTF situation, the Kimber would be my number one choice to pull out of the safe.

As for "the doghouse", welcome to the club:D


surv

[Bawanna]

2.5 is pretty light for a carry gun but I suspect you already know that. I don't think I'd trust myself. Too many years with nailguns in hand with finger on the trigger. I still contantly watch myself to keep my finger off the trigger.

So far so good. I think my fingers are permanently bent from clawing my way thru life.

[jocko]

I would suspect a good "BREEZE" might make that gun go boom....

[mr surveyor]

the few years that I carried the Kimber, I shot it a lot as well as an old Star BM 9mm that I was able to make the trigger feel almost identical. I had my muscle memory trained to those triggers and the thumb safeties, all was well. Then, two or three years ago when the fire ant population around here finally started to decline, the snake population the ants had controlled so well since the early '80s made a major recovery. That was when the .38/.357 revolvers became part of my every day carry rather than just those occassions where we thought in advance the we might have encountered an ill mannered varmint. That's when I made the decision to stop carrying the beloved Kimber and go DA pistol for semi-auto carry. I have considered having the trigger rebuilt (or diy it) to 4-5 pounds, and install new glow worms, but the manual of arms is still out of sync with the "point and click interface" style of the daily carried revolver. If for some reason I had to choose to keep only one handgun to keep from my now rather small collection (and ammo availability wasn't a deciding factor), it would have to be that old stainless Kimber.

There is absolutely NO camparison, in my opinion, between the stainless framed compacts and the alloy framed compacts. The stainless frames are built to handle the physics of .45 acp recoil.

surv