New CW9 range report

[chuckdc]

Just got a Kahr CW9 recently, but due to work encroachment on my range time, I hadn't had the chance to take it to the range until today. I did cycle the action a great many times by dry-firing.

Well, pretty much nothing to report. I ran through a little over 100 rounds of mixed ammo, including 50rounds of Wolf and a bunch of mixed old stuff that was lurking in my storage can for 9mm. The result: Nothing. The gun ran like clockwork. Not one single failure of any kind, other than less-than-optimal aiming by the operator. Gun worked like a charm and was certainly plenty accurate for the use for which it is intended. When I did my part, the bullets all went right where they should, enough for head shots at 15 yards.


I also took out my old Norinco 1911 with the Colt .22 conversion unit I picked up last week. The ammo of choice was Federal bulk-pack hollowpoints. I had one ejection failure when an empty casing got trapped in the port during the feeding cycle. Other than that, it worked extremely well, and I was able to put a whole pile of rounds into a 1.5" triangular hole at 15 yards. This conversion unit is the old-style one with the floating chamber as designed by Williams.

[Volksgrenadier]

I have had similar results with my CW9. While there was a specified "break-in" period set at 200 rounds, I experienced zero problems of any kind. I fed the weapon a diet of everything from American Eagle, Remington green box, UMC, WWB, Wolf steel cased, and Ultramax reloads. All ran like just fine. I got the best results accuracy wise (though admittedly it might have just been a banner day at the ranger for me) with the UMC ammo.

[nick]

You two are lucky. Mine gave me nothing but trouble until two trips back to Kahr and a replaced (by them) slide (and that's after the "you must finish your 200 round break-in period first" and "sometimes the break-in period can be as long as 500 rounds" excuses) took care of the issues (I think).

[Volksgrenadier]

Damn, Nick, that sucks. Glad your Kahr is running well now.

But it seems to be a trend these days with certain companies. It's like they rush their weapons to market, and the 1st generation of buyers are becoming the Best Test for the product. Then a "2nd" generation with all the fixes gets produced and put on the market.

[nick]

Damn, Nick, that sucks. Glad your Kahr is running well now.

But it seems to be a trend these days with certain companies. It's like they rush their weapons to market, and the 1st generation of buyers are becoming the Best Test for the product. Then a "2nd" generation with all the fixes gets produced and put on the market.

That might be it. Note to self - apply the same logic to firearms as I do to Microsoft operating systems - wait for SP1 before buying

[Blackhawk556]

^^^^
OSX as well

[nick]

^^^^
OSX as well

And pretty much any other OS, yes.