The K9 is controllable with +P loads but you do not have to run +P loads if the recoil is excessive. You do not need a hollow point for range use and practice and lead is the least expensive loading.įor personal defense a good, jacketed, hollow-point bullet offering a balance of expansion and penetration is critical. These loads help me keep the edge in practice sessions. They are put up on the same modern machinery as new manufactured loads they simply represent a great savings by using recycled brass. This isn’t “Uncle Sid’s by gosh by the seat of the pants” handloads. The brass is cleaned and inspected before loading and always gives good service. This is the same ammunition as the factory new red box load except that there is used brass.
Black Hills remanufactured is offered in the Blue Box line. This means remanufactured ammunition much of the time. For practice I use what is affordable and works well. Most of the Kahr pistols are stainless steel and the pistol illustrated is a blackened stainless steel handgun with a special finish.Īmmo A slim-line magazine aids in keeping the Kahr K9 slim and thin.Īmmunition selection is also important. It isn’t likely to choke and my examples have proven very reliable, but it is wise to clean and lubricate a steel frame gun more often than the low maintenance polymer frame pistols. The Kahr likes lubrication, which isn’t always true of polymer frame pistols such as the Glock.
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The recoil spring takes a lot of pressure in such a compact short slide pistol with high intensity loads and once it has lost an inch of free length it should be replaced with a premium W C Wolff spring. The pistols are wonderfully reliable, but it pays to change the recoil spring every 2,500 rounds or so.When deploying the Kahr, a few cautions are in order. This is partially made possible by the angled feed ramp. The innovative design features include a drawbar that lies rather flat allowing a narrower frame. The compactness of the design while maintaining accuracy and reliability cannot be overstated. Justin Moon, the designer, holds several patents related to the pistol. Load seven and you have seven for certain. It is a quirk of the design that by racking the slide to load the magazine you sometimes set the pistol up for a light firing pin strike or a misfeed. The pistol should be loaded by locking the slide to the rear, inserting a loaded magazine, and dropping the slide. It should be noted that while the theoretical capacity is 7+1, with a round in the chamber and a seven-round magazine, the practical capacity is seven. The Kahr K9 is supplied with two, seven-round magazines. The pistol easily field strips simply by unloading the pistol, removing the magazine and bumping the slide stop out to the left. It is possible to bump the rear sight to one side or the other for windage adjustment. The grips are pebbled rubber grips, the face of the wide trigger is smooth and the beveled slide at the front makes for easy insertion into a holster. The sights are excellent bar dot types, with the white outline bar at the rear and a white dot in the front sight. The pistol is as snag free as it is hammerless and the slide lock and magazine release are low profile. In order to maintain the compact size, the feed ramp angles to one side in order to allow the most compact space to contain the trigger action. The pistol is considerably narrower than the Glock, at only. Smoothness is the first impression when handling the K9 and the second is its compact size and width. The K 9 shows the Europeans Americans can get it right! First Impressions The trigger is smooth, controllable, and feels lighter than the 5 3/4 pounds measured on the RCBS registering trigger pull gauge.The slide resets the trigger action and there is no restrike capability.The double-action only (DAO) trigger both cocks and releases the striker.The K9 uses the Browning locked breech design with the modern, angled camming surfaces and other improvements.
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