Older K9 - questions

[fivedogfarm]

Hi, just picked up a nice used black K9 from 96-ish. AD0xxx serial number. Overall it seems to be in good shape, but I have a few questions hopefully someone can help me with:

1. What springs and other parts should be checked and or replaced?

2. The rear sight has a small set screw that seems to be stripped. I can get the sight out and replace it, but is it a standard size dovetail?

3. According to the serial number research page it says my pistol is: "blackened, not stamped SS". What does this mean? Carbon steel slide and not stainless? Or???

Heading to the range tomorrow to try it out. Thanks in advance for your help!

[yqtszhj]

Recoil spring at least. Not sure about your other questions but I bet someone else will chime in soon. Let us know how it goes.

[Cokeman]

How does it shoot?

[b4uqzme]

Welcome

1- I agree the recoil spring might need replaced. The gun should be fairly stiff to rack, the felt recoil should be soft and it should return fully to battery every time.
2- there is an old and a new style dovetail. Sights made for the Kahr old style slide should fit your gun.
3- I'm not 100% on this one but a 1996 vintage could indeed be carbon steel instead of stainless. The first K9s were carbon.

[TennSCN]

The sight sounds interesting. Early on, Kahr had some Miniature Machine Co. (MMC) fixed and adjustable sets; I don't remember if they ever offered their tritium options. They look Bo-Mar(ish) and mount to the dovetail with (2) TINY set screws (hex) rear of the sight face; the adustables have another TINY hex on the right side. I have two sets of them and they have held up very well for 22 years. I can remember installing/adjusting those things and thinking the wrench was about to snap.

Of course the originals could have been replaced with anything along the way.

[fivedogfarm]

How does it shoot?

Meh. It failed to feed every second round in the magazine (for 5 mags worth). It would nosedive, but only the second round, and I was using good speer ammo, no WWB.

It is very stiff to rack (like my CM9 when I first got it), so I'm wondering if this K9 has been shot very little.

other that that I like it. Not sure how to proceed at this point.

[b4uqzme]

Here's one thread on the first/second round nosedive. There are probably others. I hope it helps.

http://www.kahrtalk.com/showthread.p...round+nosedive

[fivedogfarm]

Here's one thread on the first/second round nosedive. There are probably others. I hope it helps.

http://www.kahrtalk.com/showthread.p...round+nosedive

Awesome! I'm going to strip it tonight and see if this may be the culprit. Thanks!

[fivedogfarm]

Stripped it and inserted a full mag with the slide stop pin in place. It was definitely hanging up on the tab. A couple quick swipes with a file and I think I'm good to go. I'll try it out this weekend to be sure. Thanks again!