Well, I finally got to the range to test my wife's new P380... that I bought a few weeks ago. I've been busy with the house being Rhino Shielded and a new roof being put on... and switching from DISH to AT&T U-Verse.
I carried my P380N and the new one to the range to see if it had any problems. Mine didn't, but the new one did. From the the first round not fully chambering from slide lock release to almost every shot. the slide would not go into full battery and numerous rounds would not be ejected even when I pushed the slide into battery. I had to use a rod several times to extract cases and a few rounds that the extractor could hang onto.
I had five 6-round mags and three 7-round extended grip mags for a total of 51 rounds loaded at one time with me. I started with S&B 92-gr FMJ and then Herter's 95-gr FMJ. I left the SD Buffalo Bore loaded ones at home or didn't use the carry ones with me at the range. Yeah, I have lots of magazines.
By the time I labored through the first load of mags, I called it quits on the new P380. Then I shot a set through my CCW P380 plus one mag of the Winchester Ranger T that I think my wife would prefer. I only had one minor problem with MY pistol... besides sprinkling the target a little more than I wanted.
I need to clean the pistols and take comparison photos when I get around to it, and see if there's anything amiss with the extractor train.
The extractor is out of spec... at least, so maybe a new one will fix things without a trip back to the factory. I'll check the parts out when I clean them.
Almost every shot required the slide to be pushed forward to battery and if I didn't, there would be some kind of crappy click that would repeat if I let the trigger reset, but the slide was out of battery and I could push it forward with my thumb easy enough that that's what I did for every shot... nearly.
I'm glad that I went alone and didn't have Wifey with me. She has no patience.
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I pulled the slide off and oiled the friction areas several times to no avail, so it wasn't the pistol being dry. I did a quickie cleaning job with patches through the barrel and lightly oilled the ramp, too. I wasn't supposed to do stuff like that at the range, but it was a new pistol and I was trying to get it to work properly.
The extractor seems further toward the center of the breechface than my older one and I hope that a new extractor... or anything else that Kahr wants to send me, will put it back into action. But, if they want to work on it, they can take it and make sure it's properly running.
Wynn
I carried my P380N and the new one to the range to see if it had any problems. Mine didn't, but the new one did. From the the first round not fully chambering from slide lock release to almost every shot. the slide would not go into full battery and numerous rounds would not be ejected even when I pushed the slide into battery. I had to use a rod several times to extract cases and a few rounds that the extractor could hang onto.
I had five 6-round mags and three 7-round extended grip mags for a total of 51 rounds loaded at one time with me. I started with S&B 92-gr FMJ and then Herter's 95-gr FMJ. I left the SD Buffalo Bore loaded ones at home or didn't use the carry ones with me at the range. Yeah, I have lots of magazines.

By the time I labored through the first load of mags, I called it quits on the new P380. Then I shot a set through my CCW P380 plus one mag of the Winchester Ranger T that I think my wife would prefer. I only had one minor problem with MY pistol... besides sprinkling the target a little more than I wanted.
I need to clean the pistols and take comparison photos when I get around to it, and see if there's anything amiss with the extractor train.
The extractor is out of spec... at least, so maybe a new one will fix things without a trip back to the factory. I'll check the parts out when I clean them.
Almost every shot required the slide to be pushed forward to battery and if I didn't, there would be some kind of crappy click that would repeat if I let the trigger reset, but the slide was out of battery and I could push it forward with my thumb easy enough that that's what I did for every shot... nearly.
I'm glad that I went alone and didn't have Wifey with me. She has no patience.

I pulled the slide off and oiled the friction areas several times to no avail, so it wasn't the pistol being dry. I did a quickie cleaning job with patches through the barrel and lightly oilled the ramp, too. I wasn't supposed to do stuff like that at the range, but it was a new pistol and I was trying to get it to work properly.
The extractor seems further toward the center of the breechface than my older one and I hope that a new extractor... or anything else that Kahr wants to send me, will put it back into action. But, if they want to work on it, they can take it and make sure it's properly running.
Wynn

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