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I have had my CW9 for just about a year.
From day 1 it has had issues. First it was an occasional light strike, about 1-3 rounds out of a box of 100, and nearly every time the mag would drop in the middle of the magazine sometime and cause the slide to fail to lock open when it was empty. Kahr sent me a new mag release and spring to fix it (myself) the first time, fixed the mag drop but not the light strikes.
Light strikes eventually got to where it was 75% of the time at around the 300 round count (just past break-in!) and I sent it back to Kahr to be fixed. New barrel and magazine follower and it returned to the original condition: light strikes 1-3 per box of 100.
So I contacted them to fix this and they sent a FedEx pickup, but didn't bother to prepay it! What's the deal with scheduling a pickup but not paying for it?
I am about 99.99% done with Kahr. My gun has been defective from day one, they had it back at the factory with every opportunity to fix it right, and now I am going to have to complain and set up another pickup to get them to pay for the shipping. For the price of the gun plus the amount of ammo and range fees it has taken to test their various "fixes" and the shipping costs to get it fixed, I could have bought a reliable gun to begin with. Never mind the cost of the backup gun I bought since I wind up sending the Kahr back to Massachusetts for weeks at a time a couple of times a year.
My "cheap junk" S&W Sigma cost >$100 less, came with FOUR magazines, and has never had one single solitary failure of any kind. Ditto that my Ruger LCP. Kahr is supposedly a premium brand. Come on, guys!
From day 1 it has had issues. First it was an occasional light strike, about 1-3 rounds out of a box of 100, and nearly every time the mag would drop in the middle of the magazine sometime and cause the slide to fail to lock open when it was empty. Kahr sent me a new mag release and spring to fix it (myself) the first time, fixed the mag drop but not the light strikes.
Light strikes eventually got to where it was 75% of the time at around the 300 round count (just past break-in!) and I sent it back to Kahr to be fixed. New barrel and magazine follower and it returned to the original condition: light strikes 1-3 per box of 100.
So I contacted them to fix this and they sent a FedEx pickup, but didn't bother to prepay it! What's the deal with scheduling a pickup but not paying for it?
I am about 99.99% done with Kahr. My gun has been defective from day one, they had it back at the factory with every opportunity to fix it right, and now I am going to have to complain and set up another pickup to get them to pay for the shipping. For the price of the gun plus the amount of ammo and range fees it has taken to test their various "fixes" and the shipping costs to get it fixed, I could have bought a reliable gun to begin with. Never mind the cost of the backup gun I bought since I wind up sending the Kahr back to Massachusetts for weeks at a time a couple of times a year.
My "cheap junk" S&W Sigma cost >$100 less, came with FOUR magazines, and has never had one single solitary failure of any kind. Ditto that my Ruger LCP. Kahr is supposedly a premium brand. Come on, guys!
) and had trouble with feeding ammo and extractor probelms. I now think what has happened is that these manufacturers have rushed to chatch up with the demand for guns; and quality and attention to detail has suffered. When I called the manufacturer about the gun they said "It needs an extended extractor" and I said "Well if you know this is the problem why has there not been a recall; alot of people use this as a carry gun" and I never got an answer they just said " Sir would you like to return the gun"
; so I sold my guns after they were returned from factory just could not bring my self to carry a gun that had let me down even though the manufacturer had fixed and said it was good to go. I have a Kahr K9 Elite (best gun I have owned) and I am buying a P45 in the next couple of days hope it is a good quality gun.
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