Lets Get to the Bottom of Kahr Magazine Questions!

[jfrey]

I don't know for sure exactly what they did. The work order only indicated they did some work on the mag well. I can tell by looking inside it that they must have milled down the inside in some way. I went back and checked the work order and it says "polished frame". If they replaced the mag catch, it doesn't say so. What ever they did it is working now. Sorry I can't be more specific.

[mbv6988]

I have a K9 with about 650 rds through it. I the only mag problem I had was that the plastic magazine follower broke. The rear vertical guide portion broke, allowing it to tilt forward when it shouldnt. I emailed Kahr service and Ian sent me out a free replacement. I think the followers should be made of metal or at least beef them up so they cant break.

[hobbydad]

I recently replaced the polymer magazine release in my PM9 with the steel version (Thanks Ian), and it helped magazine ejection immensely.

[sheepdog22]

Im going to bring this back from the dead. I had the same issue as the OP. The bullet would not sit tightly in the magazine, which made it vomit bullets inside my Remora mag pouch. I followed the OP suggestion about tweeking the feed lip which removed all the side to side but the CW9 wont cycle by hand properly. I have to slingshot the slide and even then sometime it hangs up.

I may be putting my CW9 back in the safe till I can get it figured out.

[OldLincoln]

Tweaking the lips is a try/fail/try thing. Once I had my feed lips perfect looking, it fed round nose well but not HST. I opened them just enough to feed HST and all has been well since. They have just a little wiggle room but hardly anything like the sloppiness from the factory.

Just look it over for any pinch and loosen up just enough to feed. Go shoot range and defense ammo and if necessary tweak again. I recommend doing 1 mag at a time.

[paperpuncher]

The mags for my P238 and my CM9 are so similar in size that I had to label them, but the quality difference between the two are so apparent, that really it's a joke that Kahr would think so little of such an important part of their product and contract out and pay for junk. These are the sorriest mags of any gun I own, including laughed at Bersa.
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[sheepdog22]

Tweaking the lips is a try/fail/try thing. Once I had my feed lips perfect looking, it fed round nose well but not HST. I opened them just enough to feed HST and all has been well since. They have just a little wiggle room but hardly anything like the sloppiness from the factory.

Just look it over for any pinch and loosen up just enough to feed. Go shoot range and defense ammo and if necessary tweak again. I recommend doing 1 mag at a time.

Yea. I have been tweeking my spare 8 rounder. I will give it another go and see if I can get it functioning better. Thanks!

[saltydog452]

Spirit of the original post?

I have a K-9 and a P-9.

Had them since mid 90s and late 2000 respectfully.

Both are still reliable but the OEM mags are beginning to seperate at the aft weld seam. No way that a 'before and after' comparison can be made.

Just guessing, but I imagine the feed lips have spread since the weld splits have begun. They all still work though.

salty